Empty Holster Protest This Week On Campuses Around The Country

This week, you might see students around campus wearing empty holsters on their belts. Don’t be alarmed – it’s part of a harmless Rights Awareness protest. You'll probably see Ladies and Gentlemen both.

The point of any empty holster presence is to call attention to the gun owners whom you may not know. This is important for those who believe they are ‘uncomfortable’ with another adult student carrying their personal weapon on campus anywhere near them.

But one’s fellow student is the same person now they were before one found out they are a gun owner.

The thing non-gun owners can do is to inquire. The gun owner is usually well informed on U.S History, sovereign rights, personal authority, personal liberty, and tactics - and is a superb source of information on how it relates to heads of household who would like to learn more about household safety planning and considerations. 

"Though households may plan for chemical poisoning, illness, traffic accident, root canal, or even unemployment, just how the family will meet, answer and even survive violent crime is the most neglected area of household management," notes John Longenecker, CEO of the Good For The Country Foundation, a patriotic education organization.

And, of course, anyone can say those three little words Liberty Nuts love to hear: Take Me Shooting.

Especially if one is getting only the Gun Control side of the debate.

A day at the range surrenders up a great deal of insight and other useful information for heads of household. Gun safety, the purpose of personal weapons in America as it relates to you, and much more. With 300 million guns in the hands of 80 million adult owners, these are not the people committing the crime. These are the people stopping it - in progress.

Opinion or Fact? The FBI believes about 2.5 million times a year someone uses their gun to de-escalate a crime. That’s a lot of crime stopped when first responders are not available.

But it’s not happening this way on campus nor in the gun ban states and major cities where the only persons to have guns are the thugs and the police who arrive after-the-fact.

This is what an empty holster protest is all about: Education. Education on campus.

Oh, and another fact the empty holster protest signifies: many of the gun owners elect not to protest, since they have seen what can happen for expressing such political beliefs. Not only are the visible protestors brave, but they signify how close they can be to a shooter who might come on campus -- long before police could even take the request for aid.

Keep your eyes peeled.

And be sure to ask what shall not be infringed is really all about.

It could be quite an education.

And that would be good for the country.