While fighting efforts to permit professors, staff and students to carry concealed firearms for their personal protection on campus, leaders of three high-profile Arizona universities are arming their respective police departments with "assault-style" rifles.
If the gun-free campuses are so safe, so safe that faculty on down should never be permitted to carry concealed firearms, then why on Earth do the university police departments need competition rifles -- what the gun banners refer to as "weapons of war?"
David Codrea has an idea.
"It's all about Jan's feelings you see. Besides, as we know from experience, college students are never targeted by enforcers with rifles. And if you can't see it, it can't hurt you, Jan? That's your fall-back position? Is that anything like pulling the covers over your head so the monster in your closet can't get you?"
They are not even trying to shield this news, and don't seem to get the hypocrisy of it all. A police officer, armed with his patrol rifle, rushing into a scene minutes AFTER an attacker commits mass murder, is worthless. A waste of money and hypocritical, when professors and students who wish to be armed could likely stop an incident before the carnage expands.
If the gun-free campuses are so safe, so safe that faculty on down should never be permitted to carry concealed firearms, then why on Earth do the university police departments need competition rifles -- what the gun banners refer to as "weapons of war?"
David Codrea has an idea.
"It's all about Jan's feelings you see. Besides, as we know from experience, college students are never targeted by enforcers with rifles. And if you can't see it, it can't hurt you, Jan? That's your fall-back position? Is that anything like pulling the covers over your head so the monster in your closet can't get you?"
They are not even trying to shield this news, and don't seem to get the hypocrisy of it all. A police officer, armed with his patrol rifle, rushing into a scene minutes AFTER an attacker commits mass murder, is worthless. A waste of money and hypocritical, when professors and students who wish to be armed could likely stop an incident before the carnage expands.
Hypocrisy. All this while a legitimate debate is going on. A debate with facts that the powers that be are trying desperately to run away from.
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What hypocrisy? Have you ever tried to arrest a twenty-year-old with half a beer in his system with something weak like bare hands, a taser, or a pistol? What you need for that is a rifle.
What the media means by a "high-powered" "assault-style rifle," of course, is anyone's guess. It may not even have a rifled barrel. Heck, these could be Nerf blowguns that simply look like one of those new-age, militaristic Garands that grandpa used. If it looks black and shiny, all the better.
Speaking of which, I just came up with a loophole in the gun-free zones: they're not bullet-free. Theoretically someone outside of the zone could fire at someone inside of the zone. It'd still be some sort of felony, but general laws are irrelevant; without a university ban on bullets in the weapon-free zone, students will be completely vulnerable to gunfire.
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