1) High schoolers would not be able to carry, I thought you would have known that, plus I said no where about high schoolers.
2) You have to be 21 to obtain a CCW, as well as have no mental history, no felonies, and basically no criminal record. You have to be a responsible adult with a good background
3) You have to qualify at a range and show you know what you are doing with a handgun before you can obtain one. You have to demonstrate that you know how to clear a weapon, as well as be able to fire it accurately.
I justify this by presenting you with this argument. Most college campuses are gun-free, yes. But, you know what that spells? That is a Target zone where anyone who feels like shooting someone knows that no one will have a gun when they walk into that room full of people. They know that all of those people will run into the nearest corner for them to just line up and be shot like cattle. 1 person could have saved lives that day if they were permitted to responsibly carry their weapon with them, it would have only taken one.
Yes there are the possibilities that they could have missed, but guess what, it would have been a lot better for them to have had a chance to defend themselves, rather than let this madman walk through killing as he pleases.
I know of other schools, such as campuses in UTAH that allow concealed carry on campus. The ERAU prescott campus has a CLASS offered about using handguns and other weapons... i've never heard of anyone shooting up these types of places.
And to the notion of someone being afriad of a pocket knife and shooting someone? Are you kidding me? That's absolutely rediculous, and unfounded. No one that has legally obtained a CCW will have that mindset.
But here is what I think should be allowed if this were to happen.
No student living On campus in a dormitory should be able to keep their gun with them, b/c lets face it, it's a dormitory. Only those students who are Permitted with a CCW and live off campus should be able to carry. And dormitory's should have security there constantly.
Also, if a person is carrying on campus, the gun should have to be in their bag, and not actually on their person, in order to minimize an accidental mishap.
So anyways, that is why I believe I should be able to carry on campus, so that I am not defenseless when this person comes on campus shooting people. I can be able to defend myself like i've been trained to do.