[Vision2020] Guns on campus

[Sue Hovey]

Wonder,  could one legally do that?

Sue H

-----Original Message----- 
From: nickgier at roadrunner.com
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 7:52 AM
To: Ron Force ; vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Guns on campus

Good Morning Visionaries,

If I were still teaching I would respectfully ask any gun-toting student to 
take another class.

Thanks, Ron, for that great letter to the NY Times.

I think it's time for me to touch a "Third Rail" and write a column on gun 
control.

Nick

---- Ron Force <rforce2003 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  Letter to the NY Times:



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March 17, 2011
Guns on Campus
To the Editor:

Re “School of Glock” (column, March 10):

As psychiatrists who have done extensive work in college mental health and 
safety, we applaud Gail Collins’s critique of efforts by several state 
legislators to loosen restrictions on carrying guns on college campuses.

While there have been a few highly publicized tragic shootings on college 
campuses in recent years, over the last 10 years the average yearly rate of 
homicide on college campuses has been approximately 1 per 1 million 
students. Colleges are extraordinarily safe places.

In contrast, suicide is 100 times as common — and suicide attempts 10,000 
times as common — as homicides on campus.

We also know that suicide attempts involving firearms are dramatically more 
likely to result in death to the attempter and potentially others than those 
made by other means, like drug overdoses. Finally, 40 percent of college 
students report bingeing on alcohol in any two-week period, a behavior 
associated with both suicide and homicide risk.

Advocates of arming more college students are therefore trying to protect 
against an extremely rare event while potentially putting guns into the 
hands of large numbers of depressed, suicidal or intoxicated students who 
will be at increased risk, and put others at risk, too.

Victor Schwartz
Jerald Kay
Paul Appelbaum
New York, March 10, 2011

The writers are professors and administrators at Yeshiva University, Wright 
State University and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
respectively, and Drs. Schwartz and Kay are co-editors of “Mental Health 
Care in the College Community.”






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