To save the cost of that valuable response time, which is always too long, is it too much to even consider letting law-abiding Americans carry firearms as enshrined in the Bill of Rights, in what I hope one day will be called the "formerly known as gun-free zone?"
Free Constitution has some thoughts on the newly-released Virginia Tech report.
Unless it includes a recommendation to educate and encourage students about their right to keep and bear arms, and another to shackle Larry Hincker in stocks on the commons for public ridicule and scorn, it's guaranteed to be nothing but a bunch of politically correct BS. And nothing in it will keep the next madman from doing the Hokie Smoky.
The relevant portion:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.governor.virginia.gov/TempContent/techPanelReport-docs/10%20CHAPTER%20VI%20GUN%20PURCHASE%20AND%20CAMPUS%20GUN%20POLICIES.pdf
They say that the issue of allowing CCW holders to carry on campus was brought up, but they couldn't resist getting their digs in:
"... The guns-on-campus advocates
cited statistics that overall there are fewer killings in environments where people can carry weapons for self-defense. Of course if numerous people had been rushing around with handguns outside Norris Hall on the morning of April 16, the possibility of accidental or mistaken shootings would have increased significantly. The campus police said that the probability would have been high that anyone emerging from a classroom at Norris Hall holding a gun would have been shot."
CCW holders would not have been rushing around outside like chickens with their heads cut off.
And are the campus police saying that they'd shoot anyone carrying a gun without challenging them first?
JH asked "And are the campus police saying that they'd shoot anyone carrying a gun without challenging them first?"
ReplyDeleteWell yes, they are. It's called a terror tactic. Shouldn't we put them on a watch list?
"If you defend yourself or other innocents we will shoot you from where we are hiding behind trees."; cannot be confused with law enforcement, it is terror pure and simple to keep the status quo of monopoly of force for the "authorities".