After strong protests, Oklahoma Senate leaders decided Monday to shelve a bill to allow military veterans and others with firearms training to carry concealed weapons on college campuses.
University presidents, faculty members and students had loudly opposed the measure, which sponsors said would improve campus security. Educators said it would have the opposite effect.
University of Oklahoma President David Boren had argued the bill would hurt recruitment of students and faculty. It also would pose a dilemma for police trying to determine whether a person wielding a weapon was a "deranged gunman or someone who thinks he is doing good vigilante work."
Well, yeah. Besides, how are you going to be considered as a potential Bloomberg running mate if you don't view self defense as "vigilante work"? And as long as we can keep our recruitment efforts unsullied by icky guns, we can always get fresh bloo...uhh, replaceme...uhh, new students and faculty.
But don't worry, Okies--particularly those of you who can demonstrate training, dicipline and a track record in proper firearms use. If any school shooters do show up on one of your campuses, David Boren'll stop 'em. He or one of those "university presidents, faculty members and students" who presume authority and competence to make such choices for you.
I am a recovering Okie, trust me David Boren is one of the two most useless wastes of skin on the planet. The other was also an Oklahoma governor, Henry (hoghead) Bellmon.
ReplyDeleteOU hasn't changed since I went there more than forty years ago. In fact, they are largely responsible for the fact that I never attained a degree. I just couldn't pretend to be as ingnorant and spineless as was demanded to be successful there. I found the same thing in most of academe. My last attempt at a different university I carried a 4.0 gpa and still couldn't manage the disgust I felt with those whom it was necessary to associate to pursue a degree.
I shortchanged my earnings potential, but I don't feel dirty. Most of my life I have outperformed degreed people in my profession, I just didn't have the proper credentials. Thank God!
Most of college level courses now are nothing but vocabulary lessons, unless one is in a real technical and esoteric field. And those vocabulary lessons fail in all but oral presentation. Have any of you read any writings by the average current college graduate? They're damn near illiterate.
Approximately every 5 to 7 years the buzzwords change and one's credibility is based largely on how well he can sling those buzzwords around even if he has no clue what he said. A student's exposure to new concepts or discoveries in a particular discipline are almost nil, we just have new buzzwords for the same old stuff.
The program can be described in American academia as "Learn the new vocabulary quickly, then sit quietly through the socialist indoctrination".