{"id":21420,"date":"2019-12-13T15:33:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T21:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=21420"},"modified":"2019-12-13T15:33:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T21:33:37","slug":"21420","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=21420","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Myth busted: Campus carry never caused that increase in violence liberals predicted<\/a><\/p>\n

Nothing unusual in busting proggie mythology.<\/p>\n

The argument in favor of arbitrarily revoking the Second Amendment rights of college students, as is done in dozens of states<\/a>, has ostensibly been rooted in safety concerns.<\/p>\n

And it just got a lot weaker.<\/p>\n

Two anti-gun professors\u00a0wrote<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0Washington Post<\/i>\u00a0that \u201ccampus-carry laws will invite tragedies on college campuses, not end them.\u201d Another liberal professor,\u00a0writing<\/u><\/a>\u00a0for the\u00a0New York Times<\/i>, warned that \u201cwhen there are more guns around, there is more risk \u2013 it\u2019s as simple as that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The trouble with such predictions is that they tend to be tested as time goes by. And as it turns out, they simply weren\u2019t true. Students just aren’t waging the gun battles that anti-gun activists expected. A\u00a0new report<\/u><\/a>\u00a0from the\u00a0College Fix<\/i>\u00a0looked into this narrative, and it came up empty.<\/p>\n

When a reporter reached out to numerous universities that permit campus carry, \u201call of the schools that responded confirmed that they have seen no uptick in violence since their respective policies were put in place.\u201d Responding colleges included Emporia State University, Dixie State University, and Valdosta State University. Separately, the\u00a0Texas Tribune<\/i>\u00a0has\u00a0reported<\/u><\/a>\u00a0that after the Lone Star State implemented campus carry at four-year colleges state-wide, it resulted in \u201cno sharp increase in violence or intimidation,\u201d and in fact, the following year was \u201cquiet\u201d and \u201cuneventful.\u201d<\/p>\n

These are just a few examples, but even\u00a0studies<\/a><\/u>\u00a0cited favorably by gun control advocates admit that \u201cresults certainly do not prove that campus carry causes more crime.\u201d Essentially, it’s now clear that conservatives and libertarians had this one right. Allowing American adults aged 18 to 22 to exercise their Second Amendment rights on public college campuses is a no-brainer, as there are few rights more fundamental than the right to self-defense. Plus, the inconsistent nature of current \u201cgun-free campus\u201d rules already makes little sense.<\/p>\n

The current system in many states bans college students from carrying guns but would allow adults of the same age who do not attend college to carry firearms. This is an arbitrary inconsistency that makes little sense, as there’s nothing to suggest that college students are more violent or less responsible than their noncollege peers. So, too, guns are often allowed at high-risk off-campus sites such as fraternity houses, yet barred from the actual campus \u2014 a glaring inconsistency that makes little sense. And now it\u2019s officially confirmed that arbitrarily revoking college students\u2019 Second Amendment rights doesn\u2019t even make anyone safer.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s impossible for blue-state legislators and liberal college administrators to keep justifying their harsh anti-gun policies. That is, unless they\u2019re willing to admit that they just hate the idea of gun rights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Myth busted: Campus carry never caused that increase in violence liberals predicted Nothing unusual in busting proggie mythology. The argument in favor of arbitrarily revoking the Second Amendment rights of college students, as is done in dozens of states, has ostensibly been rooted in safety concerns. And it just got a lot weaker. Two anti-gun … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21421,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21420\/revisions\/21421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}