The purpose of this study was to evaluate the predictors of undergraduate, resident students' attitudes toward guns on campus and the feelings of safety on concealed-carry campuses at five large, public universities in Texas. Data were collected from on-campus housing occupants in fall 2020 using a new survey, yielding 2,607 eligible responses for analysis (a 20.16% response rate). Descriptive analyses were conducted to provide an overview of the sample and to identify that 70.13% of participants across the five campuses opposed laws or policies allowing guns on campus. Hierarchical multiple regression was used to explore statistical relationships between three blocks of predictor variables (demographic and sociocultural characteristics, exposure to guns, and experiences with gun violence and victimization), and the outcome variables: attitudes toward guns on campus and feelings of safety on concealed-carry campuses. Analysis of variance and t-tests were used to further explore the distribution of the dependent variables across select predictor and demographic variables of interest. Several key findings resulted from this study. Overall, 25.70% of the variance in attitudes toward guns on campus could be explained by the three blocks of predictor variables in the final regression model, (f[superscript 2] = .35; p < .001). Similarly, between 13.20% and 25.20% of the variance in feelings of safety on concealed-carry campuses could be explained by the predictor variables in the final regression model, (f[superscript 2] values ranging between .15 and .34; p < .001). Gender identity and previous experiences with gun violence were negative predictors of attitudes toward guns on campus and feelings of safety on campus (p < .001), and exposure to guns was a positive predictor of all dependent variables (p < .001). Race or ethnicity was identified as a negative predictor in the final feelings of safety models, (p < .01). Male residents were identified to be statistically more supportive of guns on campus and to feel statistically safer on campuses allowing concealed-carry than nonmale students, more so than female, transgender male, and gender nonconforming participants. White students also reported feeling statistically safer on campuses allowing guns than non-White students, yet no significant differences in attitudes toward guns on campus were noted based on race or ethnicity. Residents with higher levels of previous exposure to guns expressed more supportive attitudes and felt safer on campus than students with less access to guns, and participants with increased histories of gun violence reported feeling less safe on campus and less supportive attitudes toward university policies allowing guns on campus. The finding from this study that more than seven out of ten resident students oppose laws allowing guns on campus contributes to the strong history of scholarship demonstrating the opposition of university stakeholders to these policies. This study featured one of the largest samples to be studied since the 2007 Virginia Tech mass shooting in which data were collected from multiple campuses in a single U.S. state with laws, at the time, permitting weapons on school grounds. This research provides lawmakers and university administrators with direct voice and input from possibly the most vulnerable stakeholder group to violence on college campuses, resident students. If lawmakers are not acting in stakeholders' best interests by allowing guns on campus, it remains to be determined whose interest they are representing. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]