Totally in favour of students learning how to shoot guns or bows or fence with swords. Why wait for college? With proper supervision these are all appropriate at high school.
A campus should be inclusive and non-intimidating. If you want women, minorities, foreign students to feel comfortable and secure, then arming self-entitled white males to strut around campus with deadly weapons for no reason other than pandering to their own deep insecurities is not the way to do it.
Wow, I had no idea this law forbid women and minorities from getting concealed carry permits and/or carrying on campus (for better or worse, an alien generally has to be a permanent resident to get a permit).
You don't suppose some of those women want to be able to protect themselves from the real rape culture?
I also wonder how these "women, minorities, foreign students" would even know that others are carrying concealed weapons. (Further, a lot of us wonder how these special snowflakes will cope when they graduate and are in the real world, after being coddled all their lives.)
What threat model are you picturing for rape that pulling out a pistol would be an effective response? Even "jump-from-the-bushes" rape (which is a pretty small proportion of rape) tends to involve close distances. Pulling a pistol on someone within arms reach is tricky even if you are sober and at about equal strength.
(I am not a martial arts or combat systems instructor of any kind.)
Well, somehow it nonetheless works for a whole lot of women/people in general; the statistic I've read is that the average gun fight occurs at 7 feet of distance. And of course one of the points here is that a gun is an equalizer for people with a strength difference.
Consider the Zimmerman-Martin case. Martin, taller and with the advantage of hitting first, was on top of Zimmerman, pounding his head into a concrete sidewalk, and Zimmerman nonetheless was able to draw his gun and shoot Martin.
A campus should be inclusive and non-intimidating. If you want women, minorities, foreign students to feel comfortable and secure, then arming self-entitled white males to strut around campus with deadly weapons for no reason other than pandering to their own deep insecurities is not the way to do it.