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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
Date published: 12/31/2007
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Please proceed directly to the other thread on "hellfire."
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.
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Are you trying to shut down this redundant discussion.....
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