It is, however, reasonable to ask whether deterrents without the potential lethality of firearms might be better suited for college campuses. Encouraging all students to arm themselves with pepper spray, or offering self-defense instruction to all students, might be just as effective in keeping criminals away from college campuses as allowing a fraction — albeit a sizable cohort — of those students to carry concealed weapons. [More]Boy, they were doing their best to sound like they wanted to give all sides credence and then they pulled this horsesh*t.
See, thing is, if those alternatives are "better suited to college campuses," then they're better suited everywhere.
Tell you what, unknown editorialist--why don't we set up a test? You with pepper spray and whatever martial art you've gone to some summary classes on, against a psychotropic drug-addled sociopath with firepower that will take you out from a distance.
Ready, set, GO...
Sure are a lot of dumb people at institutes of higher learning...
I refer to them as institutes of higher sinecure, but that's just me.
ReplyDeleteStay safe
They are not institutes of higher learning, but of higher indoctrination.
ReplyDeleteI call the "Ivy League" the "Poison Ivy League" these days.