Updated Feb. 14, 2002 12:01 am ET
If a Mt. Holyoke junior has her way, students at the prestigious college would have the right to carry firearms. The problem? Massachusetts has some of the nation's most restrictive gun laws. That hasn't discouraged Christie Caywood, founder of the Mt. Holyoke chapter of Second Amendment Sisters, a national, pro-gun women's group. Citing several rapes in the area -- and an unarmed campus police force -- she says she can't understand the fuss. "Why wouldn't they want us armed?" she told CNSNews.com. "I'm at a women's college and they talk about empowerment. We shouldn't have to depend on others to take care...