While I am all in favor of allowing both students and professors to carry on campus, I'm not sure it would do any real good as far as the professors go. When I attended the University my professors were virulently anti-gun and I'll bet that most still are. You'd have a better chance of getting them to vote for Dick Cheney than carry a handgun. And simply carrying a gun is not enough; you must practice and--more importantly--have the proper mindset to use it if necessary. Unlike most professors, many students have not spent their entire lives sheltered in the soft bosom of academia. Some come from the street, some are ex-military, and some from hunting backgrounds. If I were a betting man, my money would be on the students rather than the faculty to be the group best able to take care of business.