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Liberty University president urges students to arm selves
AP ^ | 5 Dec 15 | Staff

Posted on 12/05/2015 10:40:18 AM PST by SkyPilot

LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) -- The president of Liberty University urged students at the Christian school to carry concealed weapons on campus to counter any possible armed attack like the mass killings in San Bernardino, Calif.

"Let's teach them a lesson if they ever show up here," President Jerry Falwell Jr. told students at a convocation Friday.

The call-to-arms was met with rousing applause from students, but some said Falwell went too far when he appeared to be referring specifically to Muslims, the News & Advance reported.

"I've always thought if more good people had concealed carry permits, then we could end those Muslims before they walked in .," Falwell said.

Questioned by a student on social media, Falwell said he was referring to Islamic terrorists.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: banglist; christianschools; constitution; education; falwell; guns; liberty; libertyu; muslims; rit; virginia
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1 posted on 12/05/2015 10:40:18 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot

More guns = less crime.


2 posted on 12/05/2015 10:42:13 AM PST by proust (Texan for Trump!)
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To: SkyPilot

This must be a real college for real world adults, not a Day Care college for adult-babies.


3 posted on 12/05/2015 10:44:00 AM PST by lee martell
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To: SkyPilot
The call-to-arms was met with rousing applause from students, but some said Falwell went too far when he appeared to be referring specifically to Muslims, the News & Advance reported.

Muslims are fast becoming the primary threat.

4 posted on 12/05/2015 10:45:49 AM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: SkyPilot

It IS About Islam.


5 posted on 12/05/2015 10:46:34 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Just say NO to muslim "immigrants")
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To: SkyPilot
"The call-to-arms was met with rousing applause from students, but some said Falwell went too far when he appeared to be referring specifically to Muslims, the News & Advance reported."

The second clause of the sentence. It did not take the judas goats and traitors long to go into action, did it? One will also note that , when pressed, Falwell did not crawfish, he specified who he was referring to.

6 posted on 12/05/2015 10:46:43 AM PST by sport
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To: SkyPilot
Many people from my church (many who are very wealthy) send their kids to Liberty.

These days, it eclipses Harvard, Duke, Vanderbilt, Yale, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Cornell, Brown, Syracuse, Boston University, NYU, Colombia, Berkley, and Stanford in common sense and a real education.

It seems as if the only real places of actual education and standards these days are Christians colleges and universities.

If I had a stack of resumes on my desk, and the graduates were from Liberty, Messiah College, Nyack, Wheaton College, Houghton College, or Cedarville University - - I would hire them first and reject the other applicants. There seems to be nothing but garbage coming out of our once prestigious secular colleges and universities.


7 posted on 12/05/2015 10:47:53 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

What a beautiful location!


8 posted on 12/05/2015 10:48:53 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: SkyPilot

> some said Falwell went too far when he appeared to be referring specifically to Muslims

Okay, include blm Dindu trash too.


9 posted on 12/05/2015 10:49:48 AM PST by soycd
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To: SkyPilot

Good for Jerry. I just sent a memo to my university urging a study of concealed carry. Doubt it will get far, but they will at least have to address it.


10 posted on 12/05/2015 11:03:34 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: SkyPilot

And in Arizona (via AzCDL):

” . . . Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has called for Arizona’s almost 250,000 CCW permit holders to help stop terrorism and mass shootings. CCW permit holders are only the tip of the iceberg of armed citizens in Arizona. Thanks to AzCDL there is no requirement to beg government officials for permission to exercise your right to bear arms in Arizona – permits are optional. All of us responsibly exercising out rights can be a very large deterrent.


11 posted on 12/05/2015 11:09:36 AM PST by Oatka (ES)
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To: AlaskaErik

Our government has all the American-Africans stirred up with the BLM charade, next we can expect the MLM. Once the Muslims are at the same fever pitch as the blacks it will be all out war. BLM-MLM-Obama versus the rest of us.


12 posted on 12/05/2015 11:12:49 AM PST by strings6459
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To: SkyPilot

It is not merely arming people but training people how and when to kill Jihadists. How to form squads to go after any street killing bearded /burka covered wretches. Next the laws must be changed to give no recourse whether criminal or civil to any Jihadist or his family


13 posted on 12/05/2015 11:33:03 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: trisham
Thanks. I sent one daughter to Nyack College - right outside of NYC and down the Hudson from West Point.

Beautiful campus. The photos don't do it justice.

Brilliant kids there. I mean brilliant. I went back to one of my alma maters (Syracuse) for a lecture, and they didn't have one half the knowledge or common sense. Other Christian colleges like Messiah teach engineering, and have some of the best programs in the world. Again, I think the brick and motor secular universities are dying.

14 posted on 12/05/2015 11:49:59 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

Gorgeous. That’s wonderful!


15 posted on 12/05/2015 12:13:50 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Bryanw92; CatherineofAragon

Ping!


16 posted on 12/05/2015 12:21:04 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Look, the establishment doesn't want me, because I don't need the establishment." --Donald Trump)
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To: lee martell

Mrs BN earned her Bachelors degree (Magna Cum Laude) last Fall from Liberty-Online.

At the age of 66!

Great school!

(Great co-ed!)


17 posted on 12/05/2015 12:23:46 PM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: lee martell

>>This must be a real college for real world adults, not a Day Care college for adult-babies.

I attend Liberty University Online. It is a real school for adults, with a real focus on veterans. But, the residential students are college-age and they are serious men and women. If I had a college-age kid, he would be going to Liberty.


18 posted on 12/05/2015 12:24:20 PM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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I attend Liberty University Online. It is a real school for adults, with a real focus on veterans

Obviously, Lynch and Obama must investigate and prosecute these hate crimes. DHS must alerted to these veteran, White, Christian threats to our nation. And Muslims, homosexuals, atheists, and Socialists must be on the jury. If we decide to even have one..........

19 posted on 12/05/2015 12:31:49 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: BwanaNdege

Congratulations to both you and your wife. Life is for learning, and at all ages!


20 posted on 12/05/2015 12:50:18 PM PST by lee martell
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