Gun-rights advocates leveraged campus sexual assault cases to arm campuses.

Evidence

The politicization of guns has moved onto college campuses, one of the safest societal settings, where gun violence is rare. In the polarizing divide, Students for Concealed Carry campaign for the right of students to be armed and Students for Gun Free Schools want guns off campus … Colorado passed a law granting college students the right to carry concealed firearms on campus. The armed students are being housed in a separate dormitory … Exploiting notorious cases of campus sexual assaults, gun-rights advocates and the gun lobby pressured states to pass laws permitting faculty members and students to be armed on college campuses (Schwarz, 2015). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1204

Categorization

• QUESTION: The claim that sexual assault panics were used to justify arming campuses is striking and worth verifying with the Schwarz 2015 source.
• CANDY: Colorado housing armed students in a separate dormitory is a vivid, tweetable image.