I'd like it if someone could walk me through the scenarios in which people envision someone legally concealing a firearm on their body feels emboldened enough by being armed that they are willing to escalate the situation enough to kill someone...

But these same people are otherwise respectful enough in class and on campus to not violate whatever harassment agreement is surely in the student code of conduct. I went to school in Texas, and with one notable exception there was never any hate speech worth mentioning that I was ever aware of (and news of shitbags spread quickly...the antics racist frat boys off campus reached the ears of the entire school).

On issues of gun control I'm generally pretty moderate (grew up in the south...so I love guns, but not everybody should have them and I think limits on killing-efficiency are reasonable) and almost always sympathetic to the left on this issue, even though in practice I wish that everything about owning guns worked out as ideally as conservatives seem to hope for. I've generally agreed with President Obama and his measures of bringing gun violence down, and I think that the universities should ultimately be in charge of whether or not they allow firearms on campus.

I guess I just have a hard time imagining a mentally-healthy, (presumably) affluent, and otherwise successful (because the firearm carrier will have made it through three years of college at that point, assuming they start at 18) college student who decides to go from an acceptable peer to murderous bigot. I'm from a way different climate when it comes to gun control though, so I'm open to hear new things.