After Elliot Rodger’s alleged slaying of six people and himself near the University of California-Santa Barbara campus, University of Arizona student Julianne Stanford weighs in on allowing campus concealed-carry for students as a way to prevent mass killings at schools.

…. Where it’s lawful, can students and faculty be trusted to effectively use their concealed weapons to prevent or stop an “active shooter” situation on campus?

The College Fix previously reported on how schools are revising their active-shooter response plans. Robin Hattersley-Gray, executive editor of Campus Safety magazine, had said students and faculty should prepare themselves for such situations by knowing what a gunshot sounds like, how to alert safety officials, points of evacuation for an area and where to seek shelter if evacuation is impossible.

But it’s very much in dispute whether preparation and training are the only ways to quickly and effectively resolve an active-shooter situation.

“The fact is that if there is an active shooter situation and there is someone there with a concealed carry permit who is trained, they’re going to be able to stop that person before the cops even show up,” Katie Pavlich, gun-rights advocate and author of the New York Times best-selling book, Fast and Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-Up, told The College Fix.

Pavlich argues that students should not only be able to carry concealed firearms on campus to defend themselves from an active shooter, but also to defend themselves if they are attacked by a violent person. Pavlich cites the case of Amanda Collins, a University of Nevada, Reno, student who was raped at gunpoint in a gun-free zone by a serial rapist a mere 50 feet away from the campus police department in 2007.

Collins was a “competent young woman who had a conceal carry permit,” but due to university policy, “she wasn’t allowed to carry her gun,” said Pavlich.

If Collins had been allowed to carry her weapon that night, things might be very different today, said Pavlich. The man who attacked Collins was later convicted of raping two other women and murdering another woman.

“It’s cliché, but when seconds count the police are always minutes away,” Pavlich said, “and a lot of damage can be done while someone is waiting for the cops to show up.”