Okay, OP, I am going to give you a different answer. (I tend to swim upstream). Leave it at home. Yes, you heard me. Leave it at home. It is not worth the risk.
Take it to campus only if (a) you've paid for your classes thus far with scholarship money and (b) your career ambitions are not so important to you that you will be upset if you don't reach them. I didn't have anyone helping me go to college. I worked hard and saved to pay for it. I'm basically cheap. I wouldn't risk throwing away money I had already spent for credits. Are you willing to?
Maybe your mom and dad are paying for you to go to school. Maybe one of them is working two jobs just so you can have the privilege. Are you willing to throw their money good-bye and face them when you do?
Maybe you are going to school on student loans that you have to begin paying on within months of being out of school. You get kicked out of school and now you have to start re-paying your loan from your little job at Walmart or McDonald's. Good luck with that.
Maybe like me, you have a career ambition...something you want to do badly you can taste it, or perhaps you just know you don't want to be a common laborer working for little money. Willing to risk it?
Here's the deal, if your gun is ever seen on campus under any circumstance you are done. Even if, God forbid, you face a threat pull your gun, and don't use it, you are going to be kicked out of school. If you face a threat, and do use your gun, you are going to get kicked out of school and pay so much of your money defending yourself that you can't afford school anyway. If you try to take those credits you earned to another university, in all likelihood you will get a letter beginning with, "Admission denied."
Money gone. Career gone. Hopes dashed.
I advise you to take other precautions that you can, minimize risks as much as you can, but leave the gun at home. The statistical probability of running into harm on campus is low enough to not justify the risk. Have a career.
Take it to campus only if (a) you've paid for your classes thus far with scholarship money and (b) your career ambitions are not so important to you that you will be upset if you don't reach them. I didn't have anyone helping me go to college. I worked hard and saved to pay for it. I'm basically cheap. I wouldn't risk throwing away money I had already spent for credits. Are you willing to?
Maybe your mom and dad are paying for you to go to school. Maybe one of them is working two jobs just so you can have the privilege. Are you willing to throw their money good-bye and face them when you do?
Maybe you are going to school on student loans that you have to begin paying on within months of being out of school. You get kicked out of school and now you have to start re-paying your loan from your little job at Walmart or McDonald's. Good luck with that.
Maybe like me, you have a career ambition...something you want to do badly you can taste it, or perhaps you just know you don't want to be a common laborer working for little money. Willing to risk it?
Here's the deal, if your gun is ever seen on campus under any circumstance you are done. Even if, God forbid, you face a threat pull your gun, and don't use it, you are going to be kicked out of school. If you face a threat, and do use your gun, you are going to get kicked out of school and pay so much of your money defending yourself that you can't afford school anyway. If you try to take those credits you earned to another university, in all likelihood you will get a letter beginning with, "Admission denied."
Money gone. Career gone. Hopes dashed.
I advise you to take other precautions that you can, minimize risks as much as you can, but leave the gun at home. The statistical probability of running into harm on campus is low enough to not justify the risk. Have a career.
in and say, put it in a different compartment than you keep your insurance/registration. Just in case your are pulled over on campus (Just in case)... you don't have the issue of knowing your gun is in the same compartment that you need to access for information required when a leo ask for it.
I was literally laughing when I was reading Captains post. If you use your gun to save your life you will get kicked out of school and spend money defending yourself? What, as opposed to dying? I will take being alive and poor over dead any day...
