Posted on 07/08/2009 9:15:19 PM PDT by greatdefender
Gun-rights advocates have won victories in several states in recent months allowing gun owners to carry concealed weapons in public parks, taverns and their work places.
So it came as a surprise to Tennessee state Rep. Stacey Campfield that he couldn't persuade his colleagues to pass a law allowing students at public colleges to carry concealed firearms on campus. The bill died this spring in the Republican-controlled legislature -- one of 34 straight defeats nationwide for people who believe a gun wouldn't be out of place in a college student's knapsack.
aucous debates over the parameters of the Second Amendment have become a staple of the culture wars. But even on an issue as divisive as gun control, states may be nearing something resembling a national consensus: Guns don't belong in a college classroom.
In the two years since a Virginia Tech student shot and killed 32 students and professors, gun-rights advocates have failed to pass laws even in states strongly supportive of gun owners' rights, including Louisiana, Alabama, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Mississippi and Kentucky. In June, a bill died in the Texas legislature in the face of criticism from college administrators and student groups, who invoked the specter of students toting loaded weapons to booze-soaked campus parties.
Gun-control advocates tout what they label an unprecedented winning streak, noting that it comes at a time when even many Democrats are wary of alienating U.S. gun owners.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124700997480908627.html
Sorry, I forgot to post the link to the article
That's such a simple concept to me that I have difficulty understanding people who can't see it.
Nonsense! The fight has been won! If you intend to mug and/or kill students that happen to be outside of their dorms at 3 am, no one’s going to stop you unless you’re chained those little illuminated CAMPUS SECURITY phone booths! No need to change the law!
I believe that one of the founding fathers [at least] said something like “it is the duty of every patriot to disobey unjust laws”... maybe if EVERYBODY carried their gun and a copy of the constitution[s] (fed & state) then what could the officials do?
(The reason I bring up state constitutions is because my state’s constitution specifically prohibits any county or municipality from infringing on the right to bear arms by law or ‘regulation’.)
Sorry, but I disagree. The truth is even worse.
Hoplophobes are worried they are only an impulse away from murdering someone. They are afraid that if they have a gun, they might lose control and kill someone with it.
This self-loathing is projected onto everyone else. Think about it: if you didn't trust yourself with a gun, would you trust anyone else with one?
Everytime they see the perp-walk on TV, they cringe and worry: "there but for the grace of God go I".
It's an idiom. Don't take it too literally.
There's a subset of liberals that are authoritarians like Kerry, that believe that only they (or someone that answers to them) should have guns.
Maybe if college enrollment could be restricted to actual students, this “consensus” would change. Most of our nation’s colleges are predominantly populated by young adults whose chief purpose in being there is 4 years of partying and other nonscholarly self-indulgence.
My TN town (very blue) is full of cute little “Gun free zone” signs and “Peace Zone” and it just makes me shake my head. They might as well put up signs that say, “Please don’t shoot me...I’ll do anything that you want just please don’t kill me.” Neither work very well. :(
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