Second Amendment Sisters actively supports the ConcealedCampus.org demonstrations October 22 through 25 at colleges and universities nationwide. That week members of the group will wear empty holsters to classes and other events in protest of their inability to protect themselves while on campus.

We have a right to life. We have a right to protect that life and the lives of those around us. We have a right to the means to do so.

None of us wants to use lethal force against another human being. Some would not want to use lethal force even if they were under imminent threat. We would never insist that everyone do so.

However, the choice to live or die; the choice to use force to defend one’s life or to refrain from using force belongs to the individual. We ask that each individual be given that choice.

We have young people who make the choice of protection. These are young people who have considered their options and chosen to protect their lives and the lives of others. Young people who have obtained Concealed Carry Permits in their various states, and carry handguns concealed on their person wherever they go.

Unless they go onto a college campus. Then, they must disarm and go unprotected, even though colleges have been the target of disenfranchised students and others who have visited their rage on the innocent. They go disarmed even though colleges also have incidents of rape and other violent crime.

When the right to protect one’s life is taken away, the right to life is taken away. We understand that the police are not able to protect everyone all the time. Not only is this impossible, but the Supreme Court has ruled that it is an unreasonable expectation. The police cannot be responsible for each individual, only for the general population.

The obvious conclusion is that individuals must be responsible for themselves. Yet, college regulators make it impossible for individual students and faculty to protect themselves.

Second Amendment Sisters applauds the young people of ConcealedCampus in their efforts to change these dangerous policies. When parents send their children off to college, they do so with the basic belief that those children will return home. It is time to eliminate the ‘gun-free zones’, which keep out only the guns of the honest and decent.

Second Amendment Sisters is a grassroots organization dedicated to preserving the individual basic human right to self-defense.

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