Another problem with this "law" is that it would be impossible to fairly enforce. VCU is a spread out, urban university, and city property and VCU property blend together with no clear definition. To effectively enforce this law, VCU would need to post hundreds if not thousands of signs deliniating the boundaries to its property...[More]There's a discussion going on. My own thoughts are to do what I think is necessary--a hell of a risk to demand a free man to take. You can only marvel at the evil mind that thought that one up, and the ignorant ones that think it makes them safer.
Which brings us to this:
The university is committed to providing an environment conducive to academic freedom, free inquiry, and equal access to educational and occupational opportunities. The principle of academic freedom requires all persons to respect another's dignity, to acknowledge another's right to express differing opinions, to cultivate and to cherish intellectual honesty, and to promote freedom of inquiry and expression. It is therefore the policy of the university that no act of any member of the university community shall serve to restrain or inhibit access to opportunities or the exercise of these freedoms. To that end, no person, either singly or in concert with others, shall willfully:Basically, a bunch of academic weasel words that say our feelings and our choice on how to react to you acting like a free and sovereign human being will be used to dictate what "dignity" we will allow you to "cultivate" and "cherish."
4. Have in his possession any firearm, other weapon, or explosive, regardless of whether a license to possess the same has been issued, without the written authorization of the president of the university. This restriction does not apply to persons whose duties lawfully require the possession of firearms or other weapons.
So much for "express[ing] differing opinions."
Orwellian subversives. The only good thing I can think of is, if the commies do win, their useful idiot academic enablers will be able to look forward to a Cambodian-style cultural opportunity.
LM is looking for thoughtful input. As he tells me via email:
This is an issue that has confused the 2A crowd in VA for some time, with no clear answer. This is a more serious issue than it seems at first glance, because the campus of VCU is spread out throughout the City of Richmond, surrounds part of the state capital, and it is virtually impossible to enter, exit, or travel through Richmond without passing through VCU.Go on over and read the whole thing.
The solution is simple. Have every citizen of Virginia or those who may possible traverse the VCU campus request/demand written authorization to carry from the VCU president. Send the letter certified mail to overwhelm the office staff. Choke them on their process.
ReplyDeleteAlternately, ask for a signed guarantee of personal safety with specific civil penalties if you do not receive written authorization to carry form the president.
That is assuming that written requests are even considered. Letters written in the past to the president's office have been forwarded to VCU Police, who respond with a form letter stating that no "permission slips" to carry are issued.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link and input
or....everyone in the Commonwealth of Virginia that can lawfully carry OPEN or Otherwise, Proceed in unison to the city streets which are the VCU Campus, and exercise your rights as a citizen of the Commonwealth. I do not think that someone lawfully carrying on a public street would have a magistrate write a warrant for a firearms violation, even in Richmond.
ReplyDeleteI attended the 54th Richmond City Police Academy in the basement of the Richmond Mosque, now known as the Richmond Landmark Theater, and is owned by VCU. You are correct, VCU extends the length of downtown Richmond and into the near end of "The Fan."
I think this is the case of a academic that really doesn't understand the human mind and the depravity of man.
Go to Richmond,take your gun.
I can personally vouch for the effectiveness of VCZoo's no-guns regulation. Some of us who misspent four or more years of our lives there before Virginia became a shall-issue concealed carry permit state carried concealed every day, two semesters a year and sometimes summer and Christmas inter-sessions.
ReplyDeleteOne man I know had to draw on a robber who threatened him in a parking lot on campus. He was prepared to put 10 rounds of .22 hollowpoint into one of the assailant's eyes. Fortunately the thug backed down. Campus and city police were nowhere to be seen.
Those police occasionally set up checkpoints on PUBLIC STREETS that run through the campus and REQUEST to search cars.
People have been raped or killed in the parking decks the university owns. Someone gets robbed and usually shot about every month on the edge of the ACTUAL campus, not what they dare to claim as university property.
VCU medical researchers work with organisms like the Ebola virus. VCU has a biotechnology park that -- well, imagine that -- further destroyed historic black communities downtown, a job begun by state senator and later mayor L. Douglas "One Gun a Month" Wilder, a black anti-gun socialist who invested (I mean money)heavily in the public housing scam and also owns some properties categorized as slums, with impunity. Public housing and slums where 95% of the city's violent crime is concentrated.
It all fits together.
I agree. Do what you have to, according to your judgment and survival instincts.
It may be that VCU was not the first Virginia Tech precisely because an urban college attracts urban types of students and a would-be killer knows THEY scoff at gun laws too.
When I travel from my job downtown to the West End, I drive between VCU buildings on MAIN STREET, ironically, passing under a bridgelike math classroom suspended over the street, where I used to sit with my .25, and later my .357, in my backpack. There were no casualties. I KNOW some of the students there are carrying today. I KNOW it. God watch over them, because the administration doesn't, except to prosecute them for acting like responsible young men and women.
ReplyDeleteLike at Tech, the campus police headquarters and the president's office are in the same block. Yes, he must feel pretty safe. Therefore there's no crime and violence issue at his university, only random street crime as there is in any city. Any city with a well-publicized victim disarmament zone.
My grandchildren, my niece... if they were to go there, and decided to carry, I'd GIVE them the best handgun I could afford and train them how to use it to best advantage. When you walk through the storm hold you head up high and don't be afraid of the dark...
Lets hunt some orc.
A key interpretation: "This restriction does not apply to persons whose duties lawfully require the possession of firearms or other weapons." As part of the unorganized militia, your duties do in fact require you to be armed. The Founders publications indicate this quite clearly.
ReplyDeleteJan 29th: VCU police chief arrested in undercover sting. Charged with soliciting sex from who he thought was a 15-year-old girl online. It was a detective.
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