Student's view on concealed carry

It seems that students' being able to carry concealed weapons on campus is something that many people have strong opinions about as of late.

Is the state of Ohio violating citizens' 2nd Amendment right by not allowing students to carry concealed firearms on college campuses?

If this law is overturned, will our transitions between classes turn into shootouts reminiscent of the old west?

I dare say both are far-fetched statements by people placing their personal views in front of things that are much simpler than the constitution or dodging bullets on the way to your history class. I will be honest with everyone reading this, I don't own a gun, nor do I ever intend on owning a gun.

However, my personal beliefs on this matter do not change the United States Constitution and the 2nd Amendment.

I think that by not allowing concealed carry on the campuses of state universities, Ohio is doing the right thing. You may be fully confident in your abilities to carry a weapon and use it properly.

You may be fully confident in your ability to pick out a gunman through a crowd of panicking people running erratically and shoot them without shooting anyone else, and for this I thank you.

You decided you wanted to carry a concealed weapon, and you took the proper training to do so.

If you're confident of the second thing I said you most likely have received and continue to receive training in using your firearm. Once again I thank you.

We have a problem however, or at least I do. I have a confidence problem. I am not confident of my ability to know whether that gun you're carrying is a legal concealed carry or if you're about to keep yourself from taking your foreign language final.

At the moment, if someone on campus has a gun we know without a doubt that something is amiss.

If we allow concealed carry on campus though, how do we tell the difference? I am not sure I would want this task. To those of you who own guns, this isn't an attack on you or your right to own and carry a concealed firearm.

I am willing to support that 100% as soon as you're willing to devise a method of telling the people who are allowed to carry concealed weapons from the people who are going to shoot us, because it's not you gun owners, it's me honestly.

If I see someone with a gun that I don't know on a personal level, I'm calling the cops. It's not that I think you're all insane, it has far more to do with the fact I don't know you aren't insane.

Perhaps Ohio's state university system would benefit from allowing concealed carry, or perhaps negative things would occur.

None of us can say with 100% certainty what would occur in this situation. Maybe the state of Utah is right, but maybe we'll all turn on the news on Monday and find out they're wrong.

All we can do is speculate, because while history may tell us one story history is a work in progress and we are only able to judge what has happened so well because it's not going to change we can be wrong about the future.

The future in this instance may very well be someone's life.