A campuswide alert warning of a gunman at the University of Missouri-St. Louis this morning turned out to have been caused by a longtime professor carrying antique guns as props for a class lecture, officials said. [More]
Seeing they're evidently not prepared to do anything but issue email alerts, I wonder what the headline would have read had he been an actual “gunmanTM”?
[Via cycjec]
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They may have been antique muskets, but they are still weapons. Inaccurate compared to modern weapons, but still effective at close range for one shot before reloading. They can also be used as clubs.
Still, it is a good example that when the object is demonized, we lose sight that the real demon is the use of the object. To prevent a particular use, the object is prevented, rendering other uses unattainable.
Most carry a weapon to prevent death or serious injury to themselves and their families, not with the specific purpose of unlawfully inflicting death or serious injury to others. Prohibiting weapons does not inhibit those who ignore regulation, but renders those who do observe regulation defenseless.
If campuswide emails actually had any effect, would they outlaw campuswide emails?
There was an armed robbery in Harvard Yard.
Who would ever imagine a criminal would think to strike in the center of a liberal gun-prohibiting college campus in the center of a socialist gun-banning city in a socialist gun-hating state?
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