If we're going to get into becoming a self-governing society, I'm with you there. I would much rather trust people to carry guns and not let them be used in a potentially dangerous situation (such as drunk kids in a dorm room), or to not be asses to people when they are skateboarding (I think signs like that are idiotic) than have to make more and more rules for people to follow. I just don't think more rules are the answer, but people today just seem to be lazy and afraid of getting their hands dirty for some reason.
If we were a responsible society, I think this would work out. I'm not saying that gun owners in particular are not responsible, I think "society at large" is. I think there should be gun education from day one in schools, because education is the only way that people are going to understand that not everyone with a gun is a raving lunatic AND how to act around a gun and what to do in the situation occurs (hopefully never again) when someone gets ahold of a gun and has the potential to harm someone else (be it on purpose or by accident).
It comes down to us being responsible as a whole, not us asking for more "protection" from the government. I probably said it earlier in this thread, but what bothers me about having guns on campus is not the gun owners, it's the people who live with or near the gun owners who have only ever fired a weapon in a video game. All I'm saying is that accidents happen, no matter how careful we are, especially where a lot of alcohol is consumed. I think that there would be fewer accidents if firearm safety education were the rule rather than the exception (yes, I know we're in ND, but I'm thinking on a nationwide scale).