Gun nuts targeting Florida college campuses: next up is FAU

Over a year ago, I told you about a movement in Nevada to allow state university faculty and staff to carry guns on their campuses. Absurd, right?

Well, just as I suggested when I said "I'm kind of surprised this didn't happen in Florida first," we may well be next. Except in Florida, being the batshit craziest state in America, the movement here is to allow students to pack heat on campus. And these whack-job gun nuts are hoping to set up shop right here in America's Glans™.

Students for Concealed Carry on Campus was created after the April 2007 shootings on the Virginia Tech University campus in Blacksburg, Va., where 32 people and gunman Cho Seung-Hui died.

The group, which now claims 30,000 members in 45 states, believes people with concealed weapons permits should be able to carry handguns to school, as they can to many other public places, as a way to protect themselves and others.

Two [Florida Atlantic University] students are spearheading a campaign to start the club on the school's Boca Raton campus, hoping to garner interest with a grass-roots campaign, including an "empty holster protest" in which students wear gun holsters to school.

"I've always been very much into constitutional rights and gun rights," said Ryan Faerman, an electrical engineering major at FAU who is working to start the SCCC chapter. "It seems retarded that you can't protect yourself on an open campus. It's ridiculous."

No, Ryan. I know you may be too young and inexperienced to understand this, but "protecting yourself" doesn't mean carting around handguns in your wasteband and going all vigilante and shit. Yeah, that's just what we need, the fucking Grand Theft Auto generation running around with concealed firearms. (Also, Ryan, "retarded" is pretty fucking objectionable. Does someone need a little counseling, little buddy? Hmmm?) And don't even get me started on the "constitutional rights" angle ...

Truly, it's just revolting that people continue to think having guns readily available will stop the crazies from shooting up a workplace or a campus. Has it not yet occurred to anyone that it's just as likely that a psycho killer student would have a concealed handgun as a "law-abiding" student? I don't get the "logic," and I don't think these idiot SCCC students do, either:

Matt Mesang, a 21-year-old FAU student who is working with Faerman to start the chapter of SCCC, said [an FAU shooting incident in April] shows that "gun-free zones" only deter law-abiding citizens.

Mesang, whose father is a retired Broward County sheriff's deputy, acknowledges that the club might stir controversy at FAU, but he said that's not the intention.

"There will obviously be people who are against it, and their thinking is that if there is a gun anywhere that there will be shooting," said Mesang, who sometimes practices at the Delray Shooting Center. "I believe every student has the right to defend themselves, including when they are in the classroom."

Hey, FAU -- welcome to the wild, wild west.