Posted on 01/07/2013 8:11:26 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
We regularly report on campus restrictions that undermine students’ First Amendment rights to free speech.
Now, in the wake of several well-publicized mass killings by mentally ill individuals, several university presidents have signed document that may target students’ Second Amendment rights as well.
The Cornell Insider has the details about the head of its institution.
"In response to the Newtown shooting, Cornell University’s own President David Skorton has joined nine other university presidents in signing a document advocating for “strong, meaningful action needs to occur in three domains: gun control, care of the mentally ill, and the culture of our contemporary media.”
However, no specific details are given as to what meaningful action needs to occur. One clue may be a sentence in the document stating, “Many high-powered weapons that have no legitimate use for hunting, marksmanship, or self-defense continue to be bought and sold, as are the high-volume magazines often used by mass murderers.” Beyond this, the signers do not clarify what they are exactly advocating.
The document also decries the University’s ability to keep “guns off campus and out of the hands of students” because of state laws....
(Excerpt) Read more at collegeinsurrection.com ...
and a person this dense heads a major university......pathetic!!
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[[Now, in the wake of several well-publicized mass killings by mentally ill individuals, several university presidents have signed document that may target students’ Second Amendment rights as well.]]
Well, perhaps thsoe folks pining for gun control wouldn’t mind giving out hteir homes addresses on sheets of paper and givign htem out htroughout prisons and declarign htat theere are no guns i ntheir homes because they don’t beleive in the right to self protection- Let’s see how long they continue in their opposition to gun ownership- Because after all, they are esswentially tellign criminals the nation over that they are determiend to unarm thse folks so that criminals will have uncontested access to these folsk and their stuff-
Ithaca, 24 square miles surrounded by reality.
"You mean there's a catch?" asked Yossarian.
"Sure there's a catch", Doc Daneeka replied. "Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy."
I thought it was 10 square miles. LOL.
“high powered”
What an idiot!
UGH! I honestly want to consider sending my children to Cornell, because we have alumni in the family and I think it would be a good fit, academically for my children- but come on!!!
I can not tolerate this radical Marxism from these people.
What college isn’t full of radical Marxism at this point?
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