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Republicans renew effort to allow concealed firearms on college campuses (www.tucsonsentinel.com)

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  An Arizona Republican bill that would allow individuals with concealed carry weapon permits to bring their firearms onto college campuses passed an initial hurdle, though it’s all but certain the proposal won’t become law.

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[–] Sallp 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

About shoot anything in sight, there is a couple of things. Police response time in the USA is slow and in some places it is not practical to make it better. I also think how individual the USA is some people feel better with their own defense in their own hands. But the USA does need to do better on health care including mental health.

[–] ceiphas 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Only russia and Costa Rica have a Higher Police Budget than the USA... Just think about it, you pay more for less, so you shoot each other up...

[–] Sallp 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Is that per capita, land, gdp, or just total.

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I looked it up, it is by GDP, which makes sense the US is big. But we do still have a policing problem.

[–] SweatyFireBalls 1 points 9 months ago

Maybe if there was restricted access to certain things that kill people, there would be less need for police. Also there is a lot of funding in the us for police on campus, referred to as school resource officers. Unfortunately it just results in children being charged with felonies for acting out instead of protection.

As someone trained with firearms and who spent time around people trained with firearms, I'm happy I live in a country where I no longer have the ability. I'm happy I don't see guns every day in my life anymore. In fact I see less police and less crime in general since I left the us.

Guns being out of my life has had a positive effect. I no longer hear people talk about shooting people over petty bullshit as "jokes". I also don't hear people defending firearms because "some people feel better". I'm glad those people get to feel better, it really makes the death of children in 100s of school shootings worth it.