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While the horror of events in Rhode Island sinks in, it is inevitable that, just as night follows day, defenders of mass gun culture across the United States will rush to blame Brown University for not having enough security barriers to entry at the classroom building where the shooting took place.

For them, it is always something else, not the way our nation lives awash in easily available high-capacity firearms, that is at fault. This time, let’s stop the “more security” fallacy before the propaganda machine backing it kicks into high gear.

I am a college teacher, and of course I want my students to be as safe as possible. I have even discussed with students the possibility of a mass shooting event on campus, especially when teaching in classrooms with no opening windows. However, I also do not want students to pay $10,000 more in annual fees to have an army of armed guards in armor stationed at every door or swarms of security drones hovering everywhere.

John Davenport
December 21, 2025
Mass shootings in the US must stop. We need gun control | Opinion

He goes on to build his case against “an army of armed guards.” But other than security guards at K through 12 schools I have never heard anyone suggest anything like what Davenport believes (or claims to believe) to be the case. He never addresses the solution we do advocate. That is an end to “gun free zones”. Let people defend themselves with the best tools available.

There probably is a reason for not mentioning this. I can’t believe it was an oversight on his part. I believe it was a deliberate omission. A form of lie. It is what anti-people do.