Title: Reducing Firearm-Related Violence on College Campuses - Police Chiefs' Perceptions & Practices

Publication Date: December 2009

What does it say?

Eighty-six percent of campus police chiefs disagree or strongly disagree that allowing students to carry concealed weapons on campus would prevent some or all campus killings (p. 250). 

Only 5 percent agree (3 percent) or strongly agree (2 percent) that allowing guns on campus will prevent killings.  Nine percent were “uncertain.”

Over the past five years, 35 percent of U.S. college campuses have had a firearm incident (e.g. carrying a firearm on campus, firearm stored in a residence hall, or an actual shooting) (p. 249).

The results derive from surveying a national random sample of campus police chiefs.  The sample was generated from the Directory of the International Association of College Law Enforcement Administrators.  The survey response was 70 percent (417/600).

How can I use it?

Use the results of this study to combat the NRA’s legislative campaigns to force universities and colleges to allow guns on campus.

Citation

Thompson, Amy, James H. Price, Adam Mrdjenovich, Jagdish Khubchandani, “Reducing Firearm-Related Violence on College Campuses—Police Chiefs' Perceptions and Practices,” Journal of American College Health, 58(3)2009:247-254

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