Columbus State Community College (Ohio) President Val Moeller doesn’t want guns on her campus. Understandable -- when it comes to the institution’s civilian faculty and nearly 23,000 students -- but extremely controversial when you realize that Moeller’s resolve to maintain a firearms-free environment extends to the sworn officers who make up the college’s police force. What exactly is it you "sworn officers" have sworn, Scott Buhrmaster? And why is rendering We the People defenseless "understandable"?
Is it because you're an "Only One" and the rest of us aren't? We tried it your way at Columbine, Scott--all the armed cops, and particularly the one assigned to protect the campus, escaped just fine, thank you very much.
I can tell you're competent and qualified by the exemplary gun safety you exhibit in your official portrait, Scott. I like it so much I'm thinking of submitting it to Xavier's "Idiots With Guns" gallery. After all, it's not like negligent discharges aren't a common occurrence among you "professionals."
[Via Cousin G]
"Whenever standing armies are kept up, (Or collegiate 'Security' minions), and the RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS is, under ANY COLOR or PRETEXT WHATSOEVER, prohibited, LIBERTY, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction." - St. George Tucker, Blackstone's Commentaries (1803).
ReplyDelete"Community College" = PUBLIC INSTITUTION. The Constitution, with the Bill of Rights APPLIES - FULLY. (Just as it does on EVERY other piece of 'property' located on U.S. soil!). ;)
"We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles. The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, (as in electing their functionaries executive and legislative, and deciding by a jury of themselves, in all judiciary cases in which any fact is involved,) or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed...
- Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 1824. Memorial Edition 16:45, Lipscomb and Bergh, editors.