Under Hampton's student code of conduct, your second item says: "To respect the dignity, feelings, worth, and values of others. Each member of the Hampton Family will respect one another and visitors as if they were guests in one's home. Therefore...to possess weapons such as knives or firearms...is strictly prohibited and is in direct violation of the Hampton University Code, on or off campus." Do you believe mandating a human being be defenseless respects his dignity, feelings and worth?
If he or she believes otherwise, do you believe such a mandate respects their values?
What's with "off campus"? Are you saying student gun owners will be expelled?
And how effective do you think this code was in ensuring these and future victims would be at a disadvantage to their assailant? [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner shows that "gun free zones" can be very effective--at giving attackers the advantage.
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Hampton University is surrounded by the best closed-down transmission shops and gas stations, dive bars and strip joints an ill-run city can offer. Virginia Tech has thriving restaurants, hotels, malls and cinemas. The Shadow of Death feels equally at home either place. I don't think he reads student manuals.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in college, we never heard of campus shootings, and I carried every day, as did my friends. We were never patted down or strip-searched for drugs or weapons. There were no metal detectors. The Powers trusted us. We were trustworthy. People tend to behave the way the feel they are expected to behave. Ahem.