It may never be clearer than when the topic of under discussion isarming police at RI public colleges and universities, that debates involving guns almost always involve a wider set of issues…

Real dangers and disapproved behaviors, and moral and political weaknesses are certainly all factors in the debate over arming campus police officers – which is another way of saying that what guns symbolize in this debate is as important as guns themselves.

I go on to explain what the symbolism in the campus police and any gun debate involves — and what a particular choice of gun-related symbolism might ignore — in my guest contribution to today’s Nesi’s Notes.