Story highlights Lawmakers in 10 states are contemplating campus carry laws to help women deal with sexual assault

S.E. Cupp: It's common sense to allow women to defend themselves in college and beyond

S.E. Cupp is the author of "Losing Our Religion: The Liberal Media's Attack on Christianity," co-author of "Why You're Wrong About the Right," a columnist at the New York Daily News and a political commentator for Glenn Beck's "The Blaze." She will be participating in a new NRA ad campaign featuring gun-owning mothers. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.

(CNN) As the nation contemplates better ways to prevent sexual assault on college campuses, legislators and college administrators alike have recently offered some mind-bogglingly dumb ideas.

One of them is California's new requirement that students at state schools sign consent contracts before (and during!) sexual intercourse to avoid any confusion -- as if most rapes are the result of mere miscommunications.

Others insist that holding fast to the time-honored but totally ineffective tradition of adjudicating sexual assaults within the university instead of in courts of law (as if they are student council issues instead of crimes) is the best way to protect the colleges, er, the rape victims.

While there are certainly problems on campus that need addressing, binge drinking among them, the obvious solution to make an unsafe environment safer is to give students a fighting chance to fend off attackers. That means allowing them to be armed.

It might not surprise you to learn that guns are banned on most college campuses; most are so-called "gun free zones" (that somehow criminals with guns manage to penetrate).

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