shotgunjoel said:
Most states require someone to be 21 to carry or obtain a license to carry a handgun, and this type of legislation typically exempts people with such a license.
This means students fresh from high school would be unable to even obtain a carry permit for a few years, and only a fraction of those that could actually would.
The image encouraged of a campus full of gun toting immature partying teenagers is a myth.
On 2 year campuses like community colleges, people straight from high school would not likely be old enough to carry before they graduated or transferred.
In universities it would primarily be students that had been studying a few years already that could even qualify to get a carry license.
Out of the fraction over 21 and legally able to carry only a small percentage likely would spend the time and effort to obtain a carry license. Only a fraction of those that spend the time and effort to get a license typically routinely carry.
This means most of the people carrying would be faculty, older adults returning to school, and some of the seniors.
Yet any time time the media mentions the topic one of the sides is talking about campuses full of gun toting freshmen.
Implying both that just because the law allowed CCW on campus that most students both could carry and would be carrying. Neither of which is true.
So you could carry on campus as an 18 year old high school student, but not as a 21 year old college student?
Most states require someone to be 21 to carry or obtain a license to carry a handgun, and this type of legislation typically exempts people with such a license.
This means students fresh from high school would be unable to even obtain a carry permit for a few years, and only a fraction of those that could actually would.
The image encouraged of a campus full of gun toting immature partying teenagers is a myth.
On 2 year campuses like community colleges, people straight from high school would not likely be old enough to carry before they graduated or transferred.
In universities it would primarily be students that had been studying a few years already that could even qualify to get a carry license.
Out of the fraction over 21 and legally able to carry only a small percentage likely would spend the time and effort to obtain a carry license. Only a fraction of those that spend the time and effort to get a license typically routinely carry.
This means most of the people carrying would be faculty, older adults returning to school, and some of the seniors.
Yet any time time the media mentions the topic one of the sides is talking about campuses full of gun toting freshmen.
Implying both that just because the law allowed CCW on campus that most students both could carry and would be carrying. Neither of which is true.