Deck 35: Affording Disaster: Concealed Carry on Campus

Question 1

J.M. Dieterle and W. John Koolage talk about consequentialist and rights-based arguments within the gun debate. Which of these arguments do you think is most important? Why? Is there another argument that you think matters more?

Answer 1

-Discuss the author's views on the difference in importance between a consequentialist and a rights-based approach to the gun debate.
-Indicate whether or not there is another way of approaching this topic that seems to be of more importance than either the consequentialist or rights-based approaches.

Question 2

A lot of J.M. Dieterle and W. John Koolage's discussion is about the safety of concealed carrying on campuses. How important is it for us to focus on safety when discussing arguments about carrying guns? How do you think that the data and experiments that Dieterle and Koolage talk about fits into the larger conversation about concealed carry on campus?

Answer 2

-Discuss the importance of focusing on safety within the context of the gun debate.
-Engage with the research and experiments that Dieterle and Koolage discuss in their essay, explaining how the author thinks of this data within the context of the concealed carry debate.

Question 3

What are your biggest concerns about the concealed carry on campus debate? Why? Do J.M. Dieterle and W. John Koolage address your concerns? If so, how? If not, what are they missing?

Answer 3

 Outline and explain the author's biggest concerns with regard to concealed carry on campus.
 Explain whether or not Dieterle and Koolage do an adequate job of addressing these concerns, offering a defense of this account.

Question 4

Dieterle and Koolage argue that the threat of violence that guns create challenges the most fundamental liberty we have, ________:

A) The freedom of conscience
B) The freedom of assembly
C) The freedom from torture
D) The freedom of speech
E) The freedom of religion

Question 5

What are the two primary arguments that concealed carry advocates advance in favor of eliminating gun bans on campuses?

A) A freedom-based argument and a virtue ethical argument
B) A consequentialist argument and a contractualist argument
C) A rights-based argument and a responsibilities-based argument
D) A freedom-based argument and a deontological argument
E) A rights-based argument and a consequentialist argument

Question 6

What are the two ways that allowing concealed carry on campus might make campus safer?

A) Crimes might be deterred or weapons would increase students' confidence in intervening in all crimes
B) Police might have built-in backup or concealed weapons could stop a crime in progress
C) Crimes might be deterred or concealed weapons could stop a crime in progress
D) Police might have built-in backup or concealed permit carriers could identify and preemptively shoot criminals
E) Criminals might turn to non-violent crime or concealed permit carriers could identify and preemptively shoot criminals

Question 7

Dieterle and Koolage highlight that studies have shown that permissive concealed carry laws ________:

A) Have no effect on crime
B) Have a deterrent effect on crime
C) Either have no effect on crime or actually increase crime
D) Usually increase crime
E) Always increase crime

Question 8

How do Dieterle and Koolage answer the question, "What are the odds that 'a good guy with a gun could stop a mass shooter?"

A) All scientific studies confirm this claim
B) We have many scientific studies that confirm this claim
C) We do not have any scientific studies that confirm or disconfirm this claim
D) We have many scientific studies that disconfirm this claim
E) All scientific studies disconfirm this claim

Question 9

Dieterle and Koolage say that if we have a right to carry a gun, that right is derivative from what moral right?

A) The right to pursue happiness
B) The right to liberty
C) The right to express opinions
D) The right to life
E) The right to self protection

Question 10

Dieterle and Koolage highlight that defenders of the right to carry a gun say that the right to be prepared to defend oneself can be limited if ________:

A) Others' risky behavior puts prepared persons at a more substantial risk than they would be while undefended
B) Most members of a democratic nation agree that such preparedness should not be legal
C) There is not actually a risk that the prepared person will need to exercise this right to self-defense
D) Such preparedness infringes on the rights of others by putting them at substantial risk
E) It turns out that the right to life does not actually matter

Question 11

What is the objective risk of being the victim of a violent crime on a college campus?

A) The risk is nonexistent
B) The risk is quite low
C) The risk is significant
D) The risk is quite high
E) The risk is extremely high

Question 12

Dieterle and Koolage acknowledge that most defensive gun use does seem to occur in public spaces.

Question 13

Dieterle and Koolage argue that there is no good evidence that allowing concealed weapons on campuses will deter criminals.