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Colleges have no right to disarm students

Date published: 12/31/2007

The following didn't happen. Or did it?

As I looked down the barrel of the 9 mm Glock pointed at my head, I remember thinking:

"I could have prevented this. I had a concealed-carry permit with tactical training (not required) and many hours of practice. I knew what to do. But I obeyed the law--a law meant to protect me. I left my gun at home to go to class. How ironic. That law got me and 31 others killed. It didn't stop the killer."

Explosion. Lights out--forever.

That law, or campus policy ("no guns on campus"), is simply and sadly a victim-disarmament, predator-empowerment rule. It makes self-defense illegal.

Should not the state or university be indicted as an accessory to murder in the Virginia Tech killings?

I have a feeling the founders of our nation would have laughed at the notion of self-defense as a crime, until informed that it is public policy today on most university and college campuses. Can you see the disbelief on their astonished faces?

"Not here!" they say. "We made provision to ensure the people the right to self-defense. How could this have happened?"

How can we greatly value our lives and the lives of our families that we make provision for protecting if we enact laws and establish rules that accomplish the exact opposite?

Isn't the teaching of self-reliance and individual initiative an important part of what a university imparts to its young "detainees"?

Only an enlightened administration, not a "politically correct" one, can give back its young students the "gift of life" by valuing their lives enough to rescind the "no guns allowed" policy for concealed-carry licensees.

Had there been just one more armed individual in one of those classrooms, a good many more people could be giving thanks this holiday season.

Eckel Davis Spotsylvania



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Date published: 12/31/2007


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Trippletap (posted by Al , Jan. 14, 2008 2:04 pm)   
Please proceed directly to the other thread on "hellfire."

A few years ago.... (posted by Trippletap , Jan. 14, 2008 1:49 pm)   
I ran over a kitten with a car. I felt the "bump, bump" as the tires rode over it. I didn't stop to see if it was all right. Sometimes I feel a little bit guilty. I didn't wash the tires off before I returned the car to it's owner.

Freedomfirst (posted by Al , Jan. 13, 2008 1:23 pm)   
Would you like to join our snugglefest too? The more the merrier!

What are you 2 lovebirds up to? (posted by freedomfirst , Jan. 13, 2008 1:32 am)   
Are you trying to shut down this redundant discussion.....

Al (posted by lifeisbeautiful , Jan. 12, 2008 2:17 pm)   
Glad to hear it. Some folks are so serious on tis forum that you never know what they mean.

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