Campus Carry bill a terrible idea
After teaching at a community college for 10 years, I can assure your readers that allowing students to carry guns on campus is a terrible idea. Think about it. The odds of an active-shooter incident happening on any given campus are low. The odds of one or more armed students, caught up in the chaos of the moment, neutralizing the shooter without causing more casualties are extremely low. But the odds of hot-headed, testosterone-laden, college students causing gun tragedies through accident or anger in the course of an ordinary day are frighteningly high.
Allowing concealed carry would make our college campuses much more dangerous, but the state legislators favoring such a law don’t care. They care only about pandering to conservative male voters whose insecurities have driven them to trade their private parts for pistols.
CHRIS MOSER, LITHONIA
Pastors should not be forced to violate beliefs
Regarding the religious freedom bill editorial, I noted with interest that the AJC Editorial Board chose a Scripture passage from Romans to prove a point when Romans 1:16-26 expresses Paul’s definitive statement on homosexuality. Pastors do not marry every male and female couple that applies for marriage. Pastors have always made the final decision regarding those that meet Scriptural requirements for marriage. Thousands of pastors will not perform a ceremony for couples that are not Christians. Marriage in the church is not a right as people seem to assume.
What is being sought in this bill is protection from national or state governments compelling them to endorse acts that are neither natural nor acceptable to most evangelicals and Catholics. Do you really and honestly think that Christian pastors should be forced to go against the guiding principles of Scripture, the source of their core beliefs in God?
SHUFORD JONES, WINDER
