Posted on 03/04/2009 1:43:35 PM PST by Zakeet
A professor in Connecticut reported one of her students to the police after he gave a class presentation on why students and teachers should be allowed to carry concealed weapons on campus. Now, free speech activists say the professor’s actions are what really need to be investigated.
Last October, John Wahlberg and two classmates at Central Connecticut State University gave an oral presentation for a communications class taught by Professor Paula Anderson. The assignment was to discuss a “relevant issue in the media,” and the students presented their view that the death toll in the April 2007 Virginia Tech shooting massacre would have been lower if professors and students had been carrying guns.
That night, police called Wahlberg, a 23-year-old senior, and asked him to come to the station. When he arrived, they they read off a list of firearms that were registered in his name and asked where he kept them. Guns are strictly prohibited on the CCSU campus and residence halls, but Wahlberg says he lives 20 miles off-campus and keeps his gun collection locked up in a safe. No further action was taken by police or administrators.
“I don’t think that Professor Anderson was justified in calling the CCSU police over a clearly non-threatening matter,” Wahlberg told The Recorder, the CCSU student newspaper that first reported the story. “Although the topic of discussion may have made a few individuals uncomfortable, there was no need to label me as a threat.”
Wahlberg declined to comment further to FOXNews.com, saying he did not want more media attention.
According to The Recorder, Anderson cited safety as her reason for calling the police.
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Another moronic Liberal professor teaching at our colleges.
The nightmares she must be having...
I'm not sure if the police have any civil culpability or have exposed themselves to a civil action, but at a minimum their behavior is disturbing.
In my criminal justice class, my professor loved talking about guns and all the things he saw as a homicide detective in Milwaukee.
I bet she has short hair and glasses......................
OMG! What country did this happen in? Good thing this could never happen in the U.S. huh? /s
Looks like this teacher is attacking the constitutional amendments in numerical order.
Do we ask people to register books they own?
Wonder what kind of grade they received.
How did the campus police get this information? Where is this data being stored, and who is collecting it?
“What I learned in My Senior-level Communications Class” — some ideas are too dangerous to discuss.
“....Another moronic Liberal professor teaching at our colleges....”
And this is what scares the CRAP out of me...my daughter goes to college next year. I already told her I refuse to give my hard earned cash to a far left liberal college...I refuse to support their agenda.\
That narrows it down to 4 colleges...
I think this ‘professor’ should be registered as a potential threat to our Constitutional rights as free Americans.
Ditto’s
Semper Fi
Good Lord, but I would love to be that young man’s lawyer.
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It already happens. The bookstores keep a history of your purchases. Same with the grocery store.
The Pennsylvania State Police maintain a database of legal gun sales. I could actually see this kind of thing happening at a Pennsylvania university and the campus cops running to the state police to get the information.
What an idiot lib professor. You know the university became well aware of the situation when FIRE became involved, I believe their track record is pretty good. In other news, I believe I went to school with the girl interviewed from Students for Concealed Carry.
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