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Sunday, March 17th, 2024

Most Students Prefer Colleges That Restrict Guns on Campus

Author:     ZACH HRYNOWSKI
Source:     The Gallup Organization
Publication Date:     MARCH 14, 2024
 Link: Most Students Prefer Colleges That Restrict Guns on Campus
Stephan:  

Students prefer colleges with more restrictive gun regulations, as this Gallup Survey documents. I’m not surprised, given the U.S. murder rate in schools and colleges. It would certainly be a consideration if I were choosing a college. What this survey doesn’t address is the disproportionate effect this is going to have on colleges and universities in Red states as compared with Blue states. Like the OB/GYN issues that are leading girls to choose Blue state colleges over those in Red states, so this is going to do the same for college headed girls and boys. It is startling to watch voters in Red states destroy the quality of society in their states, but they are doing it year by year with each election.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • 81% of current and potential students say gun policies influence enrollment
  • Most students prefer schools that restrict guns on campus
  • One in three students worry at least a fair amount about gun violence

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the wake of recent gun violence on college campuses in Virginia, Michigan, North Carolina and Nevada, as well as a major legal victory for gun rights advocates in NYSRPA v. Bruen, about eight in 10 current and prospective college students say a college’s policies related to firearms on campus are at least somewhat important in their decision to enroll or remain enrolled.

Regardless of age, gender or race/ethnicity, campus gun policies are at least somewhat important to more than three-quarters of current and prospective students. The largest importance gap across subgroups is a nine-percentage-point difference between Democrats and Republicans; however, more than three-quarters of current and prospective Republican students say campus gun policies are important in their enrollment decisions.

The latest results are from the Lumina Foundation-Gallup 2024 State of Higher Education Study, conducted Oct. 9-Nov. 16, 2023, via a web survey with 14,032 current and prospective college students. This includes 6,015 students enrolled in a post-high school education program […]

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