On the topic of carrying concealed weapons on campus...

[pyat]

There's a movement in the U.S. to permit students to carry concealed weapons on college campuses, in order to defend themselves against school shooters. One problem with this idea was raised by the police chief at the University of Cincinnati:

"I shoot everybody with a gun, who doesn't have a uniform on."

Comments

[dagoski.livejournal.com]

The Swiss kind of put Heinlein's proposition into action. They use a national militia and most able bodied men have to commit time to the service. They're issued rifles, but the rifles are the state's rifles and the militiaman is responsible for the weapon has to account both for it and its ammunition.

But, yeah, the gun debate here in the US has gone off the edge. It's just that the powers that be seem to abdicating their sovereignty over a lot of the country by trading social services for lower taxes to a few(my taxes never seem to go down). Here in Philly, a lot of people perceive the police force not as antagonistic, but as absent. So no small amount of the violence in the past few years has been score settling taking place in absence of any respected arbiter. I can't wait to get out of this pit and back to someplace that has self respect.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Considering the Swiss have been doing something like that for a LONG time now, I suspect that Unca Bob may have cribbed the idea from them, rather than vice versa.