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(12,334 posts)Hang on, I'll look in posting history. It's been posted here, on this very website, that students who are armed pose no threat.
Edit: can't look too far back in my search history on my phone and I don't want to slander anyone since I can't remember the dude's name.
Edit again: Here, in relation to how guns on campus change how professors teach: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016145514#post3
Then there's this hot mess of a thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141359098
Perhaps my first post was ill-worded. I do not and fucking WILL not be okay with students carrying guns in my class; students are stressed out more than ever. I teach in a very conservative state, and I discuss lovely topics such as: US support for genocidal dictators during the Cold War; US funding of genocide and other war crimes. I'm a woman; I've had two students threaten me or harass me. Do you think I want them armed? Fuck no.
If you can't leave your toys at home, find an avenue besides college. Because I sure as hell don't want you in my class and as long as it's legal for me to do so (because I know this stupid issue is coming to my state), I will ban them from my classes (or better yet, move to a saner country).