Empty Handgun Holster Protest On Campus Teaches Educators And Students

October 22 thru the 26th, you might see students around campus wearing empty handgun 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 feel ‘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 sees them as a gun owner.

The thing non-gun owner students 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 security 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 think tank.

Not only are gun owner students friendly, they're glad to help. 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 - some of those household security considerations. Gun safety, the purpose of personal weapons in America as it relates to you, and much more. Taught by FBI, local Police, former Military and others. 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 campuses nor in the gun ban states and major cities where the policy permits the only persons to have guns are the thugs and the police who arrive after-the-fact, far too late to intervene.

This is what an empty holster protest is all about: Education. Education on campus. And once you have an education, no one can take it away from you. 

Another fact the empty holster protest signifies: many of the gun owner students elect not to protest, since they have seen what can happen for expressing desire to dialogue with administrators on the question. Punishment ranges from suspension to counseling to expulsion, merely for asking.

"This empty holster protest is not divisive," adds Longenecker. "It's inclusive for one chief reason among others: not only are the visible protestors very brave for facing expulsion or counseling for the mere suggestion of asserting their rights, but the very presence of such individuals among the student population at any given hour signifies how close an armed student with his/her concealed weapon can be to a deadly shooter who might come on campus and murder students -- 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.

Not only good for the campus, it would be good for the country.

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Good For the Country has issued a White Paper, How American Gun Control Is Adverse To The Public Interest available free at www.goodforthecountry.org/whitepaper.html.

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