Guns on Campus: Bills would allow guns at college

All of the recent gun shootings in campuses around the nation has caught the attention of the Texas legislature. No doubt the state is obviously in favor of allowing people to carry weapons for sport and protection, but they are trying to take it a step further by giving students the opportunity to hold their guns in class with the proper licensing and registration of course. Personally, I don't know how much safer having guns in the classroom would make me feel especially given how with even the slightest mistake something bad could go wrong. However, if a situation like Virginia Tech were to occur, I would rather someone take the shooter out then allow the shooter to go on a rampage. My mixed feelings on the situation strike at the real question at stake here and that is does having a gun for protection actually increase the likelihood of increasing public safety? That is something we don't know and really have no way of knowing until a situation presents itself. Hopefully, another shooting won't take place to cause us to have to test it out.