maybe something like this...
Posted on 06/23/2009 4:30:23 AM PDT by from occupied ga
ATLANTA -- A robber held-up a Georgia Tech student at gunpoint early Tuesday morning, the latest in a string of armed robberies on or near the campus.
The gunman confronted the Tech graduate student about 1:00 a.m. on Luckie Street in downtown Atlanta as the victim walked to his apartment.
The robber demanded everything the student was carrying. A neighbor who saw the incident stepped out of her unit at the Centennial Street apartments and began screaming for help.
The robber got away with a pack of cigarettes.
One neighbor complained to Channel 2 Action News reporter Ryan Young that the string of robberies hasn't brought extra police patrols.
"We've had 16 stolen cars in the last two-and-a-half weeks," said the area resident who didn't want to be identified. "It's almost a no-brainer that you would want to step up security to do something about it, but that's not the case."
Another robbery victim, Jim Kenney, told WSB-TV that he was walking home Saturday night when a gunman approached him in the 1000 block of Hampton Street. The suspect told Kenney to lie on the ground, then stole his iPhone, money and sunglasses.
That robbery happened near the parking deck where Tech student Patrick Whaley was shot during a May 4 robbery.
On May 27, thieves kicked in the front door of Atlanta City Council president Lisa Borders townhome in the 300 block of Centennial Olympic Park Drive, setting off the burglar alarm.
Borders said the thieves took off empty-handed, but not before stacking her computers and food from her pantry in a neat pile in the middle of a room.
BTW The police protection budget for the (very anti-gun) mayor is around $500,000 annually. I don't know how many cops are assigned to protect the chief, but I'm GUESSING that it is about the same. So lets look at the logic here. Ga tech will throw out any student caught carrying a weapon on campus, and claims that it will do so even if they have weapons in their off campus housing. So if you're a studint and don't want to risk your degree you have to go unarmed. The mayor of Atlanta is all for gun control, but has a 24 hour guard of armed police. The Chief of police goes to washington to testify befork Kongress in favor of gun control. The police can do nothing to stop these robberies. Somehow the logic is missing here.
On the other hand, the criminals - realizing that they're on to a good thing here (ie helpless victims) flock to the unarmed tech students like flies to sh!t. The criminals seem to understand what the Atlanta administration and the administration of Ga tech do not.
Currently it is illegal in Georgia for civilians to carry licensed weapons on college campuses. That needs to change.
Currently it is illegal in Georgia for civilians to carry licensed weapons on college campuses. That needs to change.
PS: Luckie Street isnt near GA Tech, its in the heart of downtown Atlanta. This victim happened to be an unarmed Tech student. That needs to change.
“The robber got away with a pack of cigarettes.”
Tobacco tax increases spike crime rate, film at 11:00.
I didn’t get from the story that the victim and perp were on campus. Damned if I’d let a University tell me how to live my life (i.e. restrict my constitutional rights) off-campus, either. Just sayin’
HAHAHAHA.
I graduated from Tech (twice). I'm considering going back for a second Masters, part time. Tech can bite me.
Someone should challenge that - it seems blatantly unconstitutional.
yep
They weren't; however, the criminals know that anyone coming from or going to the tech campus is going to be unarmed.
The victim is a student who was returning to his off-campus living. You stated that you would not allow the University to tell you how to live your life (i.e. restrict my constitutional rights) off-campus. Well tell us how you would have your gun to protect you off-campus if you were not allowed to carry it along with you each day when you headed off to class. Would you ditch the gun somewhere before you got to campus and pick it back up when you left campus to head home? Just how would that work out? It's easy to say, but hard to carry out.
If the student is going to be allowed to protect himself when the Atlanta police can t or won't, then he has to be allowed to carry on campus!
The robber got away with a pack of cigarettes
The term loser was made for this person....
or maybe in the media the word "youth."
maybe something like this...
well something like that anyway, but probably a bit more colorful.
Simple. I’d locate a University that either kept me in a safe cocoon or didn’t restrict my constitutional right to carry. That probably wouldn’t be an urban campus in the East, either. Why attend a school that puts you in an unsafe position, then won’t let you protect yourself?
Yes, yes, YES! By all means, MORE GUN-FREE ZONES!!!
I’m a part-time stick up artist here in Atlanta and getting shot is not one of my favorite things.
NO GUNS ON CAMPUS! MORE GUN-FREE ZONES!!!
Thanks!
What are you talking about? Luckie intersects North at the Tech campus.
MONEY. There are Ga scholarships for Ga schools that they won't let you take to out of state institutions. Not everyone can afford to go wherever they want. I sent my kid out of state, even though said kid had a full scholarship to tech, but not everyone can cough up the $30,00 a year that took.
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