As gun rights advocates push to legalize firearms on college campuses, an argument is taking shape: Arming female students will help reduce sexual assaults. It reflects a misunderstanding of sexual assaults in general, said John D. Foubert, an Oklahoma State University professor and national president of One in Four, which provides educational programs on sexual assault to college campuses. The gun lobby has seized on this tactic, this subject of sexual assault, said Andy Pelosi, the executive director of the Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus. She added that people who understood the extent of sexual assaults on college campuses, perhaps female Democrats who had been sexually assaulted themselves, need to call their legislators and say, Represent us today or lose your election tomorrow. Florida State University has had high-profile episodes involving sexual assault the star football player Jameis Winston was accused of raping a fellow student in 2012 but did not face criminal charges as well as a campus shooting in November in which a 31-year-old gunman opened fire at a school library, wounding two students and an employee before being fatally shot by the police.
I am absolutely against guns. Yes guns don't kill people, it's people with guns. Uh duh. That's why college kids on campuses should not have guns! I can see the need for wanting to feel safe on campus, especially for sexual assault victims. However there are other methods for this; if alternative methods don't work than they need to be altered. Everyone has the right to protection, but what if that right is for the wrong reason?
Schwarz, Alan. "In Bid to Allow Guns on Campus, Weapons Are Linked to Fighting Sexual Assault." The New York Times. The New York Times, 18 Feb. 2015. Web. 18 Feb. 2015. <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/us/in-bid-to-allow-guns-on-campus-weapons-are-linked-to-fighting-sexual-assault.html?ref=politics&_r=0>.
