NC: Some say concealed carry on campus would help curb assaults

 

He’s never had to use it.

“Thank goodness,” UNC senior Thomas Rees said. “But it’s there for protection.” 

Rees keeps a small Smith & Wesson 9 mm pistol and a large Mossberg 88 shotgun in his off-campus apartment in Chapel Hill. On Tuesday afternoon, before bringing his firearms outside, Rees went into a back room and — with a click that accompanies guns being cocked — removed the ammunition from the guns’ chambers.

Sensible people with concealed carry permits should be able to take their guns on campus, he said.

“The bad guys would catch on and realize they can’t just rape or mug or murder whoever they want,” he said. “They’d know a lot of people have firearms, and they’re going to fight back.”

A North Carolina law passed in 2013 allowing concealed carry permit owners to bring guns on public college campuses — as long as they were stored in closed compartments in locked cars. Nationwide, there has been a push to allow guns more liberally on campuses.


 And now there’s a new argument; they’ll help curb sexual violence.

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