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College Bans Fencing Team from Practicing with their “Weapons”
FrontPage Mag ^ | 05/15/2014 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 05/15/2014 8:00:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 05/15/2014 8:00:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Wussification continues.

They already have the kids.


2 posted on 05/15/2014 8:05:04 AM PDT by bicyclerepair (The zombies here elected alcee hastings. TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
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To: SeekAndFind

They can use pool noodles


3 posted on 05/15/2014 8:06:29 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("I'm a Contra" -- President Ronald Reagan)
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To: SeekAndFind

Don’t they have a track and field team. How about those javelins? For that matter the discus and shot are clearly weapons as well.


4 posted on 05/15/2014 8:07:20 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: JimSEA
Polish Univ. had a javelin catching team..but sadly it failed...
5 posted on 05/15/2014 8:08:20 AM PDT by Paul46360 (..)
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To: SeekAndFind

My high school had a rifle team. The ROTC cadets drilled with M1 Garands. God what has happened to this country?


6 posted on 05/15/2014 8:08:43 AM PDT by VR-21 (Next Stop, Willoughby.)
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To: JimSEA
Don’t they have a track and field team. How about those javelins?

As long as they modify them specifically for the Michael Sam types.

7 posted on 05/15/2014 8:09:20 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SeekAndFind

Hey they might put someone’s eye out!.................


8 posted on 05/15/2014 8:09:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
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To: SeekAndFind; All
bureaucracy; has always been a bulwark for mediocrity/
mental laziness..(official) stupidity, so it's no surprise.

9 posted on 05/15/2014 8:11:27 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Bathhouse/"Rustler" Reid? :-)
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To: VR-21
God what has happened to this country?

50 years of the infiltration, indoctrination, and outright dominance of the filth that is liberalism, without any sustained or demonstrable pushback from normal, decent, God-fearing people. This is nothing... it's going to get a lot worse.

10 posted on 05/15/2014 8:12:25 AM PDT by Common Sense 101 (Hey libs... If your theories fly in the face of reality, it's not reality that's wrong.)
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To: SeekAndFind

What? No swords for fencing?

11 posted on 05/15/2014 8:13:57 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Liberty Valance

No Sabers either, I’d bet.


12 posted on 05/15/2014 8:20:54 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: SeekAndFind

>>There’s no room for sanity or common sense. No one says, “This is ridiculous. We shouldn’t do it.” Instead they go right back to the manual without even bothering to listen.

Worse yet, some read the rules and agree that it IS insanity, but then say, “But a rule is a rule.” These are the people who will do anything, as long as someone in authority tells them to. The group you mention are useful idiots, but the ones I’m talking about are truly dangerous.


13 posted on 05/15/2014 8:21:50 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyranni)
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To: SeekAndFind
Not a lethal weapon...I can tell you that the weapons involved are to actual blades as cap guns are to rifles.

True, but I bet the college has banned cap guns too.

14 posted on 05/15/2014 8:26:03 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Bryanw92
There's a fair size 'rules are rules' crowd here on FR.

/johnny

15 posted on 05/15/2014 8:26:04 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JimSEA

A couple of weeks ago, I volunteered at my kid’s school’s track meet. I ended up working javelin. High school kid from south of the border (California - big burly farm kid) came by and told me that their school did not have javelin as it wasn’t legal in California. He wanted to know if he could try it anyway since the track meet was in Oregon. (He tried it and admitted that it’s harder than it looks)


16 posted on 05/15/2014 8:44:03 AM PDT by Rio (Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
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I know that a couple of kids have been injured or killed due to carelessness on their parts or, more particularly, on the part of the coaches, etc. But that’s an administrative problem, don’t outlaw the sport. Kids have also died playing football, running cross country and track due to undetected health problems. Shouldn’t we eliminate those sports, just to be safe. Remember, no running in the hallways. Nanny state forever.


17 posted on 05/15/2014 8:55:17 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Red Badger

Nothin’ funner than turnin’ the children loose with a game of Jarts!


18 posted on 05/15/2014 9:00:50 AM PDT by SgtHooper (This is my tag!)
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To: JRandomFreeper

>>There’s a fair size ‘rules are rules’ crowd here on FR.

There is, but 15 years ago, it was about 98%. Today, that number has diminished way below a majority and they find themselves on defense every time they say “rules are rules”. I think that the trend here on a conservative “law and order” board is an indication that Americans are just about fed up with being shoved around by tinpot dictators and their stupid rules, whether it be the thug cop, the school official, or the petty bureaucrat.


19 posted on 05/15/2014 10:42:11 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyranni)
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To: SeekAndFind; Ramius; 300winmag; IrishCatholic; lookout88; Wpin; spetznaz; Smokin' Joe; ...
thanks, for the post...
SWORD PING!...

20 posted on 05/15/2014 2:49:34 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Bathhouse/"Rustler" Reid? :-)
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