More and more states are passing legislation requiring that students and faculty be permitted to carry concealed weapons on campus. But shouldn’t universities have a choice when it comes to campus safety?
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Do guns on campus threaten the very ideology of American higher education – one that encourages critical thinking and intense scrutiny?
Do guns change the ways that people engage with each other? A gun violence researcher went to Missouri to find out.
The media repeatedly creates instant profiles of public shooters as shy, troubled loners, perpetuating the sense of helplessness over mass killings.
Guns will be allowed on public universities in Texas from August 1. Given the recent incident of a student shooting the professor and then himself, reportedly over grades, are there reasons to worry?
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Director, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society; Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Texas Woman's University
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Professor of Leadership and Counselor Education, University of Mississippi
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Associate Professor of Communications, Penn State
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University Research Professor of Education, University of Kentucky
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Professor, Louise Farmer Boyer Chair in Biblical Studies, The University of Texas at Austin