Wednesday, January 06, 2016

A Major Flaw in the Logic

On Friday, MLA members and others will gather at one of the convention hotels for a rally. Then they will march to the Texas Capitol, and instead of carrying weapons, they will carry books. When they reach the statehouse, they will use books to build "a symbolic gun exclusion zone," and standing in that structure, they will read texts that they have discussed in their classes and that they believe need to be taught in gun-free zones. [More]
Problem is, guys, what you really want is one big "gun-free zone," and any government with the power to do that also has the power to make it a "book-free zone."

I guess if another Charles Whitman shows up, instead of armed students keeping him pinned and minimizing the carnage, y'all could always throw books at him. Heck, you might want to listen to a professional, and deploy with fearsome assault bibles...

[Via Jake S]

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