Posted on 11/07/2013 6:46:04 PM PST by markomalley
Toy nerf guns — the weapon of choice for students participating in Missouri State University’s semi-annual “Humans vs. Zombies” live-action game — may be the latest casualty of irrational anti-gun hysteria at American universities.
Humans vs. Zombies, a once-per-semester tradition at the Springfield campus, involves students using toy nerf guns to shoot foam bullets at each other. Almost 500 students played the most recent iteration of the game last month.
“I get really excited for it,” said Chad Holmes, a faculty advisor for Live Action Society, the group that hosts the game, in a statement to Ozarks First. “It’s my favorite game we play.”
Unfortunately, it involves guns. Toy guns that are incapable of harming anyone, and are enjoyed by small children around the country, but guns nonetheless.
Don Clark, director of public safety at MSU, told a public radio station that the nerf guns are a serious disruption, because other students seem them and report them.
“We cannot tell people that ‘if you see someone with a gun, it might be a Nerf gun, so just disregard it,’” said Clark.
But since the event is announced to campus officials ahead of time, organizers said public safety personnel could do just that.
“They know if they get people running around with Nerf guns calls about that, it is us,” said Holmes.
The nerf guns used in the event are even inspected ahead of time to make sure that none resemble real guns.
Still, the university is weighing a nerf ban.
The student government recently polled students about whether they would support a ban. In fact, most would not.
“It is overwhelming that students don’t feel they pose a safety risk and that even considering banning them is an infringement on students’ ability to enjoy the college experience and express themselves,” said Brittany Donnellen, vice president of the student government, in a statement.
The university did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Pathetic.
They’ll probably want to BAN Super - Soaker Guns”!
They should ban bubble baths and silly putty at the same time. Creepy commie butt head control freaks. It’s always about control, not common sense.
Schedule it off campus.
Banning Nerf guns or adults playing Humans vs. Zombies?
The Stupid, it burns!
ban nerf guns but hand out rubbers, pills and RU486 from a pez dispenser..
what next, banning Super Soakers..I had those growing up..heck I still think I have them in the garage somewhere
Nah, didn't think so. A bunch of over-sized toddlers, afraid of the monsters under the bed (what us grownups call "dust bunnies").
ping
“Still, the university is weighing a nerf ban.”
Everywhere you look, no adults, just a bunch of ——ing babies.
How did the human race survive without these people in charge?
Wow, just wow. Oldest son attends the University of Illinois at Springfield. They just had their humans vs. zombies game week. He’s a junior and this was his third year participating. He says almost all of the students join in - and some teachers and staff. And, really, I would have thought it would be the wimpy libs here in the State of Sillynoise that would ban something like that before Missouri would. Wow.
what next, banning Super Soakers..I had those growing up..heck I still think I have them in the garage somewhere
Couldn’t they just ban the t shirts and keep the super soakers?
There is a Cosby-sounding like figure up in the clouds saying: "I Brought You Out Of the Dark Ages, and I'll Damn-well Put You Back In It!"
Makes me want to make a fake advertisement using the Nerf football commercial jingle from a few years back.
“NERF! Chaingun! Rah rah rah!”
Footage is of a kid holding a Hughes M230 chaingun...
Impossible, I know.
But illustration through absurdity sometimes works.
I suppose they are not banning shooting cocks at each other’s faces in gay bondage frAts.
I meant banning nerf guns but now that you mention it, BOTH.
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