Radio Stations and the Second Amendment

Today I was listening to 91.9 or whatever that "Christian" radio station is.  Two men were discussing the horror that one girl was deterred by her dean from discussing the need and right for students to "bear arms" on campus.  Without weapons by their side, apparently, the students are "sitting ducks."

At first I was dismayed--what about suicidal/drunken/accident-prone people?  Really?  In our culture, many older "adolescents" seem to experience intense emotional pain from disappointment, guilt, and heartbreak.  (I guess this is before they become too jaded later to feel those emotions again.)  Many college freshman embrace in a maybe crazy way their new-found freedom from parental hovering and nagging by going out and "partying" almost every night.  Drunken, high?  Not that anything is wrong with those things in my opinion, but I am frightened by this scenario in my head: Someone completely drunk and stoned finds his friend's gun in a dresser door.  Interested in what would happen if he shot this or that, her or him, foot or doorknob, he experiments.  (Please know--I haven't ever known anyone to shoot anything while high.  This is purely hypothetical. :) )  Needless to say, the idea of having guns around just makes me...nervous.  

Secondly--I personally do not abide or rely on what the Constitution says as if it sustains or protects me, but for those who do put some stock in their American loyalty, I will say this: Please know your case law.  The "right to bear and carry arms" was not officially interpreted by the Supreme Court as an individualistic "go-ahead" until LAST YEAR.  2008.  Scalia.  Look it up.

Lastly (and for me, most importantly)--from what I heard on the radio, it seems that the only world these gun-advocating people live in is the world of white, middle-class suburbia.  The men spoke as if simply having guns around for students to "defend themselves" would solve all problems.  Perhaps they could learn better what life is like with lots of guns around by traveling to less white, middle-class places.  Maybe they could talk to people who are surrounded by guns all day.  Maybe they'll realize that not all people understand or handle guns the way they do, locked in their neat cupboards away from toddler hands. Perhaps more guns would create a chain reaction of killing.  Maybe.

The fact that this whole discussion took place on "Christian" radio is a problem in itself, but that discussion is for another time.