On the second anniversary Thursday of the mass killings at Virginia Tech University, the families of two slain students sued the state, the school and its counseling center, several top university officials and a local mental health agency, claiming gross negligence...Yeah, I'd say when it comes to Hincker, "gross" and "negligent" are a pretty good start. But if this does nothing to force the dumping of all Cho Empowerment Zone policies, the plaintiff's won't be doing a thing to prevent other families from suffering future losses.
Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker, who is named as a defendant along with Steger, would only confirm the lawsuits had been filed. [More]
[Via Ed M]
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Hincker, Steger and the campus police chief, the board of visitors, just EVERYBODY, are of the Janet Reno "We did nothing wrong" school of thought.
Reprehensible. Senseless.
I hear that enrollment at Tech is rising back to the old level. That's just sad. But really, there's no college in the state that trusts its young people paying it thousands of dollars a semester. The state doesn't trust its citizens.
Well, guess what? We don't trust our governor, legislators, police, educators.
True or not true: Afrocentric poet and professor Nikki Giovanni, she of the "We are Virginia Tech," was so afraid of Cho that she had police standing by when she told him to not come to her class anymore. I seem to remember that.
Hey, if a student makes you that nervous, expel his creepy ass.
But no.
Let my people carry without fear of the authorities, and they need fear no Cho.
Freeeedom!
Where can people go for advice on CCWing in places they're prohibited from by law...say, like the entirety of the states of Illinois and Wisconsin?
Just wondering.
The people should DIRECTLY SUE the VICTIM DISARMAMENT ZONES in Va Tech that allowed the tragedy to happen.
That place, like all colleges, are as gun free as a hippie love orgy. It was dry kindling, a very flammable situation, and it took just a flaming spark like Cho to ignite an infernal catastrophe.
To hell with "gun free zones". Victim disarmament has killed more people in this country than anything else, if you count all the other crimes committed in gun free zones and gun ban communities.
Cranky,
It's called concealed carry for a reason. Study up on the techniques for keeping your weapon undercover.
Just an fyi, from the ages of 19 to 31 when I moved to a more sensible state I carried concealed in Illinois. And since then I have held a valid ccw for going on 25 years now. Never been challenged, never had to show my permit, did have to draw a couple of times back in Illinois, but the folks on the other side were in no position to report the incident without incriminating themselves.
People need to keep remembering the "Hinker/Cho Massacre" and resolve to never be caught unprepared. Never.
They've had it their way for decades, and things are getting worse. Our turn.
Appropriate charges? 100,000 volts at high amperage.
An expectation of a "reasonably safe" campus when it is a "gun-free zone"? Other than equal protection under the law, campus police are not required to escort each and every student. Even prisons, which have strict control of access and items brought in, cannot guarantee safety of inmates or employee.
To acquire "reasonable safety", would it be necessary to imprison any person who exhibited aberrent behavior BEFORE they had demonstrated that they were a danger to themselves or others? Or would it far simpler and effective to allow concealed carry of weapons and require that ALL students be trained, proficient and in possession of a defensive weapon whenever "reasonably possible", to assume the burden of safety for themselves, with the help of the campus administration and campus police.
In other words, enable instead of disable. Wishful thinking gets you nowhere.
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