Editor,
This letter is in response to Austin Burke's letter titled "Allowing concealed firearms could thwart school shooting." Let me get to the point: Where is this school shooting? You have a better chance of getting struck by lightning than shot on a college campus, so do you recommend no one leaving the house when it is cloudy?
Weapons-safety training and being a police officer are not even close. One might know how to drive, but that does not mean one is ready to be a racecar driver. The movie version is the crazy gunman getting taken out by the regular guy with the gun. The reality is chaos and confusion. By putting more guns into the mix in the hands of unqualified people (former military are still unqualified - they are not police) you are just asking for more death.
To a man with a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. So you see another person with a gun, you have a license, but do they have a license? So you decide to find out, but just to be sure, you pull out your gun. Twenty feet away, someone sees you pull out a gun and start to yell at someone else. She does not know what you're doing, so she pulls out her gun. Do you see where this is going?
Leave policing to the police. Despite what you might think, we as Americans and students at UNM live very safe lives. Stop with the fear. Leave your guns at home.
Keith J. Andreys
UNM student
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