Thursday, March 06, 2008

We're the Only Ones Academic Enough

Police departments at Arizona's three universities plan to arm their officers with military-style assault rifles within the next year, officials said Tuesday.
What, "weapon of war bullet hoses designed only to kill as many people as possible"?

That's the solution, have an arms race for "The Only Ones" while the intellectual cud-chewers low to have their horns and hooves trimmed down to stubs?

ASU officers will store the new guns in their patrol cars while on duty, taking them out only when a situation warrants their use, Hardina said.
So will they rush right in where angels fear to tread, or can we expect them to deploy behind trees, cars and buldings until the carnage is over? And let's just hope they're in better running condition than this guy...

Jan Kelly, an ASU faculty member, said she understands why officers have a need for weapons with increased capabilities. She said she feels comfortable with campus officers' access to the rifles.

"I don't think the police are going to target students," Kelly said. "If they (the guns) aren't visible, most won't really know about them.

"Hopefully we'll never know about them."

It's all about Jan's feelings you see. Besides, as we know from experience, college students are never targeted by enforcers with rifles.

And if you can't see it, it can't hurt you, Jan? That's your fall-back position? Is that anything like pulling the covers over your head so the monster in your closet can't get you?

Good grief. This "daft as a hairbrush" intellect reminds me of nothing so much as the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal.

Who would let an "insanely idiotically dense creature" like this have any say at all in their personal defensive choices?

[Via ChareltonHest]

11 comments:

chris horton said...

Good job on the rememberance of Kent State, you beat me to it...

Citizens= Assault Rifle...
"Only Ones"= Patrol Rifle...

Anonymous said...

Don't forget this one:

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/10/08/wisconsin.shooting/

Kurt '45superman' Hofmann said...

Check out this letter in the Arizona State University newspaper (presumably written by a student). Not only is it dripping with tail-wagging support for "Only Ones" with "patrol rifles," it heaps plenty of disdain on the idea of not prohibiting students from having an effective means of defending themselves.

Thirdpower said...

Remember, "assault weapons" in the hands of "Only Ones" magically transform into "Patrol Rifles".

Anonymous said...

Patrolling with rifles. You would think they were getting ready for martial law or something.

Unknown said...

"If they (the guns) aren't visible, most won't really know about them.

"Hopefully we'll never know about them."

Precisely! Isn't this what's been said from the gunny side all along? Letting students carry concealed will make it so "most won't really know about them."

Anonymous said...

I don't know if my prior post failed to work or got pulled.

Either way, it's for the better. It was rushed and hot-headed.

If you want to research yet another example of why the "standing army" of LE should not have the firepower they seek versus "the militia" of everyday Americans -including students- bearing arms, I recommend reading this article:

http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/152308


C.H.

David Codrea said...

I didn't pull anyuthing, CH.

Boy, say someone forgot to study for a midterm or had a paper due, that'd sure be a way to buy more time, wouldn't it...?

Anonymous said...

I didn't pull anyuthing, CH.

Well that's good to know.

Occasionally, when in amazed frustration at people's ability to always learn the opposite lessons from events, even when they know the truth, can send me into a tirade.

I'm still steaming from the way police treat the students, and even more so at the sheep's praise of it. "Thank you sir, may I have another?"

Boy, say someone forgot to study for a midterm or had a paper due, that'd sure be a way to buy more time, wouldn't it...?

Indeed.


C.H.

Anonymous said...

"A police officer yelled at an older man dressed in Army-style fatigue pants and a blue jacket, making him lie face down on the wet sidewalk, arms outstretched.

"You almost got your head blown off," said the officer, holding a gun. "Don't you know the campus is in lockdown? We don't know who could be a suspect."


"We have zero tolerance for anything that may threaten the safety and well-being of our students and our staff," [Ferrum President Jennifer] Braaten said.

Zero tolerance, unless, of course, it's an "only one" doing the threatening. Some people must have shit for brains (or think _everybody_ else does).

On a tangent: If you wanted all the LEO in an area occupied while you committed a _real_ crime elsewhere, this looks pretty easy to setup.

Anonymous said...

I wonder what will happen if some Illegal immigrant steals one of those patrol rifles.

After all who’s going to stop them none of the students are armed.