Amid a frenzied but largely unsuccessful push this year for legislation allowing the concealed carry of guns on college campuses, advocates nudged a new argument to the fore: by packing heat, students can protect themselves against sexual assault. This article about Dartmouth undergrad Taylor Woolrich paints a picture of stalking so horrific that it challenges even the most sensible arguments against concealed carry. When Woolwich’s stalker followed her across the country from high school in California to college in New Hampshire, more than one police officer told her to carry a gun for protection. But Dartmouth would not let her. So Woolrich turned to Students for Concealed Carry, who put her in touch with the pro-gun researcher John Lott. Though Lott is widely discredited, Woolrich found in him someone who understood the danger she felt every day. After Lott ghost-wrote an editorial from Woolrich’s point of view, Woolrich walked back her participation in the organization, worrying that her public plea about stalking had turned her into an “NRA puppet.” Pauly’s article documents the lengths that campus carry advocates are going to as they seek to broaden their base, as well as the personal calculus of one woman who temporarily signed on to their cause.