Idaho: It's Not California

Let me point out that Latah County is one of the more liberal parts of the state, probably because that's where the University of Idaho is located, so lots of college students, lots of college professors, and a downtown that reminds you that the 1960s isn't over for some:

MOSCOW, Idaho (Map, News) - The sheriff of a north-central Idaho county where a shooting rampage left four dead and three wounded last May wants more people to obtain concealed weapons permits and carry guns, including on the University of Idaho campus, to improve public safety.
"In my opinion, if there were more students with (concealed weapons permits), the world would be safer," Latah County Sheriff Wayne Rausch told the Lewiston Tribune on Tuesday. "Just because we (law enforcement officers) are charged with protecting the public, doesn't mean the public shouldn't be able to protect itself."
The university bans guns except under supervised circumstances at its firing range. Except for law enforcement officials, the university requires that firearms "be transported to the range unloaded, encased, with a trigger lock attached or otherwise rendered inoperable."
Rausch's idea also contradicts Moscow Mayor Nancy Chaney, who late last month asked for a legal opinion from the state attorney general's office on whether the city has the authority to ban both concealed and exposed weapons in public areas such as city buildings.

I have some misgivings about drunken college students carrying guns. But I have misgivings about drunken college students and everything.

alcohol + guns = suicide, murder, accident
alcohol + cars = drunk driving accidents
alcohol + ladders = falls
alcohol + power tools = nasty injuries
alcohol + opposite sex = STDs, pregnancy, and rape

What's the common element to all of these problems? Drunkenness. If there's something that needs to be absent from a college campus, it's alcohol.