Re: Alternate Viewpoint on HB 1893
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 9:03 pm
Interesting point, and a good one.boomerang wrote:For the sake of argument, let's suppose more police would do the same thing."We" argue that the police can not protect everyone and that it is the responsibility of every individual to provide for his/her own defense. Then, in the same breath, "we" make the claim that a few armed CHL Licensees, carrying guns, will make our campuses safe. Think about it - If CHL Licensees will make our campuses safe, the addition of more police would do the same thing.
For the price of one campus police officer, we could train (and pay the $140 license fee) for more than one hundred armed students. So, even the "more police" proponents have to admit the university could reduce crime much more cost effectively by providing free CHL classes and subsidizing the CHL fee for students than by hiring more campus police officers.
But I can just hear the collective voice of the anti-gunners saying "but it's much safer to have one extra police officer than 100 crazy people with guns running around"
