Should Guns Be Allowed On Campus?

http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/03/08/etzioni.guns.in.school/index.html

This article is about many states, including Texas, that are considering allowing students and teachers on college campuses to carry fire arms to defend themselves from "gunmen". Amitai Etzioni is a sociologist and professor at George Washington University. His opinion on this issue is that if students and staff are allowed to carry guns on campus that there would be more deaths due to gunfire. Many students would pull the trigger out of just anger and accessibility while others who are not used to close combat warfare would miss their target and injure and kill  their friends and classmates. This also would put the teachers on high alert at all times as well, I would presume. I have to say that I completely agree with Etzioni. This decision would be more dangerous than it would be helpful.  The state could believe that people are capable of making sane judgement calls most of the time, but we never know when someone will go "off the deep end", and when they do, why should they already be armed and loaded?... This is totally crazy, in my opinion. If anything, I say let the staff have a personal firearm, but not the students. The amount of staff is considerably smaller than the amount of students and hopefully the staff will be more rational than the average college student who is also under the stress of passing their classes and exams.