<p>I am planning on getting one and want to know about some of the nuisances in college life where it may be a pain to carry a firearm? I know in my state you cant carry a firearm at all but my girlfriend at ASU is in the process of getting one and I want to know if she can leave her gun in her car or carry it to class?</p>
<p>what would be the point of leaving it in the car to be stolen?</p>
<p>It might be illegal to bring to class. I dont necessarily think it will be stolen if she locked it up in the trunk. Perhaps she should just carry it with her aroudn the campus.</p>
<p>Most schools prohibit firearms on campus, other than rifles for a drill team or something. This article is a little dated, but shows the results of a survey done on this subject.<a href=“http://www.allianceforjustice.org/student/student_resources/college_survey.html[/url]”>http://www.allianceforjustice.org/student/student_resources/college_survey.html</a>
I believe private LACs and universities can make their own rules for what they allow on their private porperty. I am less sure about the rules for the public schools. I confess I haven’t read this whole article. Maybe someone can and report back.</p>
<p>I can’t imagine why anyone would want to carry a firearm around campus. Is it that unsafe? Like Jym said, I can’t imagine too many campuses that would allow firearms, either on person or in vehicles.</p>
<p>(this is coming from an owner, so I’m definitely not anti-gun)</p>
<p>Instead of leaving it in her car she should leave it at the gun shop.</p>
<p>The reasons to carry a firearm around campus are many. A lot of rapes, drunken assaualts and batteries, and murder. People are murdered everywhere and the world is not a nice happy place. </p>
<p>Weenie, why should anyone leave it at the gunshop?</p>
<p>gatman:
Actually, I’d feel a whole lot safer if they all did.</p>
<p>weenie-
Which are you saying-- that you’d feel safer if everyone left their guns at the shop? If so, I agree with you.</p>
<p>Because guns allways go off on their own! Nobody pulls the trigger. Did you know more people die of car accidents then guns every year? But we dont try to ban it or alcohol. And the scumbag gangster, or disadvantaged youth as I prefer to call them, would probably not give up their guns if they became illegal. </p>
<p>Check this site out: <a href=“http://www.awwatchdog.com/[/url]”>http://www.awwatchdog.com/</a></p>
<p>They are monitoring those weapons with a webcam to make sure they dont walk off on their own and start shooting. its very entertaining. </p>
<p>Have you ever fired a gun? If yes great. I am glad you are trying to learn new things. But if you have not then get some training and pass judgment later. If you have, dont decide what is good for me.</p>
<p>What a sad (and crazy) state of affairs when college students have to contemplate carrying a gun for safety.</p>
<p>don’t know if the Op is serious or not…or just trying to get people riled up… but Arizona is a carry firearm state (D was appalled when she arrived there and learned this) but ASU is a weapons free campus.No firearms are permitted to be carried or housed in the dorms.This would include leaving them in cars which are parked on campus property.I guess your girlfriend would need to park off campus and live off campus if she feels the need to be armed.</p>
<p>Maybe there should be a college just for carriers, so they can all carry in harmony.</p>
<p>(a ridiculous response to a ridiculous thread)</p>
<p>Come on now. Lets show a little tolerance! Gatman respects your rights to choose to NOT own a gun, so we should respect his constitutional right to own one. Certainly Gatman doesn’t deserve this verbal abuse.</p>
<p>In my experience, gun owners are some of the most educated, non-confrontational, conservative and upstanding citizens I know. I make a point of not advertising our gun ownership (but no carry permits here) because of just such uninformed prejudice against it. You all would be surprised to find who among your friends, neighbors and coworkers owns a gun. </p>
<p>Let me also say that IMO college campuses are NOT the place for weapons. There is way too much chance of an irresponsible act. Of course, the people doing the burglaries, drug deals, rapes and assaults won’t be adhering to this “no weapon” code. </p>
<p>Gatman, you might be intersted in visiting a forum for gun collectors and owners:
<a href=“http://www.gunboards.com/[/url]”>http://www.gunboards.com/</a></p>
<p>lkf-
I don’t see any “verbal abuse” on this thread. I do see some comments by Gatman that strike me as flippant. In this day and time, there are far bigger issues to be discussing. If, as you say, gun carriers are by-in-large quiet, personally, I’d prefer it that way.</p>
<p>Only Weenie questioned the idea (not the right) to own a gun. Gatman specifically asked about some carrying a gun not just on campus but into classes.
I’ve visited ASU. I never felt it was unsafe. However, I’d love to see a prof trying to hand back failing grades to students with guns.</p>
<p>I thought calling the OP “ridiculous” was less than nice. As as been said many times on this board (and I’ve only been on it for less than one year), we only see a small slice of eachother’s lives. Who knows from where or from what circumstances another poster comes? Personally, I disagree with any firearms on campuses. But, I will defend a citizen’s right to own one. (The “bad guys” will have guns no matter what the laws</p>
<p>We could start a thread about penalties for crimes committed with firearms. That might be interesting, too.</p>
<p>I think momsdream referred to the comment and the thread as ridiculous, not the poster.</p>
<p>Oops, you are right. Sorry, momsdream! I should read more closely!</p>
<p>I think the OP is having a little fun with everyone. PA is a very easy state in which to acquire a handgun carry permit. But I don’t know of a single PA college that doesn’t ban firearms on campus (except for police).</p>