Back in September, a group of students gathered for a concealed carry meeting to protest the university’s policy of banning weapons on campus.

However, enacting concealed carry laws will endanger more lives than it will save.

The second amendment says, “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

The constitution does not need to be applied so liberally when it comes to guns.

We are living in a different time and we cannot continue to think that carrying a gun everywhere is going to make us safer.

There was a report in the Los Angeles Times of dozens of armed gun rights activists attending a Pennsylvania police chief’s court trial.

During the proceeding, a gun was dropped and went off.

Thankfully the gun was not loaded.

Concealed carry will create more opportunities for accidental shootings and the gun will not always be empty.

There will be restrictions on where people can actually have their guns.

For example, private institutions and a lot of childcare faculties will more than likely ban guns from their property.

If that is the case, though, and the law passes, are those institutions then making themselves targets?

We have seen it in the news already.

Florida’s concealed carry law directly impacted the Travyon Martin case in which Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmermann, a neighborhood watch leader.

If Zimmermann had not been allowed to carry that gun with him, the situation may have turned out differently.

As more states begin to pass concealed carry laws, the public will see an increase in accidental shootings.

It comes down to the principle of fighting violence with violence.

Putting a gun into an already high intensity situation such as a traffic run in or an emotional argument only heightens the stake.

Not all criminals have guns and allowing anyone to carry a gun would be the wrong step for any community, organization or state.

Guns are not the answer and will not bring about a safer tomorrow.

Neal Querio is a journalism junior.

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