Posted on 01/15/2014 4:53:56 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
American universities are places of art and music, gleaming labs and fine old buildings, famous libraries and fancy football stadiums, old traditions and new thinking, beauty, youth and brains – about everything you could want. Except guns. Apparently, there just aren't enough guns in those ivy-covered halls.
Never fear: second amendment fundamentalists mean to correct what they see as the sad paucity of weapons on campus. In Florida, a gaggle of true believers calling themselves Florida Carry busies itself arguing that institutions of higher learning have no right to ban guns on their taxpayer-funded property. I mean, why wouldn't you want to pack heat in a class like Organic Chemistry II? Florida Carry's attack is gradual: last year they prevailed in a suit to let students at the University of North Florida stash guns in their cars; this year, they're aiming to force the University of Florida to allow its 50,000 students to keep guns in their dormitories.
Genius! Imagine: students living six to a hutch, hopped up on Red Bull, vodka, stress, lust, Adderall, Spicy Chipotle BBQ Doritos, MIA and Grand Theft Auto 5. Now add a few .38s and maybe a deer rifle or two. The stakes in those passionate late-night debates over the origin of the universe suddenly get a lot higher.
Of course, Florida is no stranger to gun controversies. George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin for walking while hoodied....
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Pretty girlie, but effective with young women recommending pink hollow points!
I saw a study some years back that correlated calibre and first round knockdown. As one would expect the big bore stuff was in the high ninety percentile range. What suprised me was that smaller bore stuff was good too. As I recall 38s were in the low ninety percentile range. And the lowly 22 was in the mid eighties. That really suprised me.
You are so right that when we got the “make my day” law in Colorado, home invasions decreased by 70%
My apologies, I did not realize you were being a true gentleman. sometimes I forget that those of us that carry are more polite and civilized than society as a whole.
A disappointingly unprofessional piece, filled with invective and insults and insulting stereotypes. She betrays her ignorance in nearly every paragraph.
“I mean, why wouldn’t you want to pack heat in a class like Organic Chemistry II?”
Indeed. Why wouldn’t you?
I do.
/johnny
Hell, they think that guns turn honest citizens INTO violent criminals, by magic or something.
My guns must be without magic. They just sit in my closet most of the time.
Most assassins and hit men, whether government-sponsored or free-lance, use the .22 LR.
“Gun holding a deranged person goes on killing spree!”
Seriously, this “journalist” needs to read the works of John Lott and Gary Kleck.
Fact: More guns = less crime.
She could start here: http://www.assaultweapon.info/
LOL Thank you very much!
If the students live in a nation where having a gun is a fundamental civil right, why should a university built with taxpayer money be a random rights-free zone?
So old Diane is a liberal commentator for the BBC and NPR. Well, so much for street cred.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Even back when I was going to college we heard nonstop about epidemics of rapes. Today, apparently, every woman will be raped dozens of times a day on college campuses. Colleges are rape factories and every man on campus is a lust filled neanderthal not to be trusted. Why wouldn’t the liberals welcom a few handguns?
By the way, what college campus has 50,000 dorm rooms like this idiot author states?
Stealth over knock down power I would guess. Wonder what the real reason is.
Sound and flash, I would imagine.
Concur.
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