Posted on 04/20/2007 3:46:34 AM PDT by IrishMike
Thirty-two fine young men and women are dead and that is a huge tragedy. It is also, however, a tragedy that the death toll could have been substantially lower if it were not for an absurd law that kept the students and faculty from exercising their Constitutional right to protect themselves and others by bearing arms on campus.
Thanks to that law a madman was able to confront the men and women at Virginia Tech secure in the knowledge that he was armed while his victims were unarmed and defenseless.
One of those victims used the only weapon he had to protect his students. Liviu Librescu, a man who survived both the Nazi Holocaust and Communist tyranny in his native Romania, used his body as a defensive weapon against the madman’s assault, putting his shoulder to the door to keep the killer from getting into the classroom while his students fled though the windows. ........................................................
In Virginia, any adult who has a lawfully issued permit to carry concealed weapons anywhere in the state remains prohibited from protecting himself while on a state campus thanks to the defeat of the proposed law that would have allowed them the same rights they had off-campus while on-campus.
The very fact that the state considers a person capable of carrying a concealed handgun by their very act of granting a permit should demonstrate that the state believes that the permit holder can be trusted to use that handgun only for self-protection.
It is patently absurd to judge sane, normal people as being incompetent and untrustworthy to bear arms while blithely ignoring the obvious truth of the old saying that when good people are legally disarmed, only bad people will have guns.
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Not to pick on you but this is an important distinction to make here. It is perfectly legal to carry a gun on the VA Tech campus (So long as you aren't in violation of some state or federal law regarding firearms possession.) The only prohibiter there is university policy. Teachers and other employees risk being fired and students risk being suspended or expelled. A heavy financial disincentive in both cases.
The legality in question was whether the university had the authority to fire/expel employees/students for carrying a firearm whether legally or illegally carried. It was upheld that they did.
I'm no legal beagle but it looks to me like the door is wide open for a lawsuit charging the university for deprivation of a civil right recognized by the state.
Va Tech will be sued that’s for sure on numerous grounds.
Yes and that’s a doggone two edged sword. They deserve to be held accountable for negligent and irresponsible acts they may have committed but if they pay tens of millions the whole school suffers for that.
I’m done paying college tuitions, but believe me they will have no problem bumping it up another 8% to 10% to cover things. That and a new climbing wall. (sorry I’m just pissed at all the money that goes for pure crap at colleges)
I'd like to see a strong community push to end the PC Gun Free Zone policy. Students getting very vocal about ending that and establishing firearms and self-defense classes and CCL prep classes in the school. Establish a shooting club and a range. Get hardcore 2nd Amendment on them. Let no liberal illogic go unchallenged in the harshest loudest terms.
Sounds good to me.
Getting my CCL was harder than some of my college classes. There was grade inflation either.
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