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What College Applicants Really Think About Republicans’ Campus Panic (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] frogmint@beehaw.org -2 points 5 months ago

I lived through a campus shooting last year. As I watched college students climb calmly out of windows to escape the building, I realized this is a generation raised on constant shooting drills. That might explain why 38 percent of students who study on campus said they were worried about gun violence at their schools. Campus gun policies mattered at least somewhat to 80 percent of those surveyed. And of those who cared, students who wanted more restrictive gun policies outweighed those who preferred looser policies by five to one, according to the report.

"Campus gun policies" don't stop shootings. Safe space gun bans didn't stop the campus shooting mentioned by the author. The "safety" described is an illusion.

Maybe we should spend less time criticizing the government for not infringing on our freedoms and more time educating prospective students about how to actually be safe?