Posted on 02/28/2011 4:15:26 AM PST by marktwain
PHOENIX – Along with the meaning of life and the origin of the universe, college students across the country have another existential question to ponder: the wisdom of allowing guns in class.
In Arizona, known for its gun-friendly ways, state lawmakers are pushing three bills this year focused on arming professors and others over the age of 21 on Arizona campuses. Sponsors talk of how professors and students are now sitting ducks for the next deranged gunman to charge through the classroom door. Some gun rights advocates go so far as to say that grade school teachers ought to be armed as well, although even this gun-friendly state is not ready for that proposition.
About a dozen legislatures nationwide, concerned about the potential for campus shootings, are considering arming their academies. Gun control advocates say Texas is probably the most likely to pass such a measure, with Arizona also in the mix.
Arizona's proposals to loosen restrictions on campus weaponry, coming so soon after the shooting rampage in Tucson that left six dead and 13 wounded, have prompted a fierce debate at the state's public universities, with significant brainpower focusing on the issue of firepower.
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Teachers armed? Are we talking about public university teachers? If so, my observation is those retards are too stupid to carry a paintball gun, much less a firearm.
Wouldn't they weigh the same as off-campus? Guess you don't know till you try.
LOL!
Actually, we finally have permitless CCW here in AZ (probably need to be 21) so even restricting it to students with an official CCW is more stringent than in the public at large. I still can't figure out why university management thinks their setting is SO special that they get to have a separate set of laws different from what is apparently perfectly adequate everywhere else in the state. Arrogance beyond belief.
On further consideration, maybe whatever gravitational anomaly or atmospheric contamination is making all the staff and students such mental lightweights and airheads MIGHT make the guns weigh less! Should be interesting to find out...
They're Smarter Than You And Every One Else.
Get it now? ;0)
Sorry for the delay in responding. Had to clean the drool off my keybooooord.
You could get a federal grant to study the effects of a group of university professors on the weight of objects.
It's the identical mentality as is here in OK. I'm at NSU and the liberal bias is sickening. We're dominated by idiots who are totally removed from reality. Typical liberals. One of my profs (for a totally useless required class) equated gun ownership with drug addiction. I called him on that and accused him of liberal bias and he toned it down.
I hate liberals.
>Students armed? If they have met (whatever) requirements necessary for their CCW, definitely yes. I wish they would pass that law here in OK.
Given that AZ passed Constitutional Carry, which reads:
Art 2, Section 26.
The right of the individual citizen to bear arms in defense of himself or the state shall not be impaired, but nothing in this section shall be construed as authorizing individuals or corporations to organize, maintain, or employ an armed body of men.
How can any state law legitimately *prevent* someone from carrying on a university campus? “The right of the individual citizen to bear arms in defense of himself [...] shall not be impaired” is pretty damn clear.
What?
My gun has weigh over a certain amount before I can carry it onto a campus? Okay, I can handle that...
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