Posted on 03/04/2009 1:43:35 PM PST by Zakeet
A professor in Connecticut reported one of her students to the police after he gave a class presentation on why students and teachers should be allowed to carry concealed weapons on campus. Now, free speech activists say the professor’s actions are what really need to be investigated.
Last October, John Wahlberg and two classmates at Central Connecticut State University gave an oral presentation for a communications class taught by Professor Paula Anderson. The assignment was to discuss a “relevant issue in the media,” and the students presented their view that the death toll in the April 2007 Virginia Tech shooting massacre would have been lower if professors and students had been carrying guns.
That night, police called Wahlberg, a 23-year-old senior, and asked him to come to the station. When he arrived, they they read off a list of firearms that were registered in his name and asked where he kept them. Guns are strictly prohibited on the CCSU campus and residence halls, but Wahlberg says he lives 20 miles off-campus and keeps his gun collection locked up in a safe. No further action was taken by police or administrators.
“I don’t think that Professor Anderson was justified in calling the CCSU police over a clearly non-threatening matter,” Wahlberg told The Recorder, the CCSU student newspaper that first reported the story. “Although the topic of discussion may have made a few individuals uncomfortable, there was no need to label me as a threat.”
Wahlberg declined to comment further to FOXNews.com, saying he did not want more media attention.
According to The Recorder, Anderson cited safety as her reason for calling the police.
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Note keyword above. Where is database on the all the guns owned by the gangbangers? The mafia types? etc.
There is none you say? Hmmmm. Too bad.
LOL! I'd be careful. In her fevered imagination she might be convinced that you 'brandished' your weapon!
Yeah, that hideous style that Tina Fey made popular. Mom had a pair of them about 30 years ago, and I called them her "Lizard Glasses"...frankly to my eye they make the wearer look like a lizard.
Was at a dinner party this past weekend. All of the women that were wearing that style of glasses were all lib, and all impressed with themselves and insufferably boring. Fortunately I got seated at a table with a couple of non-glasses wearing women (as well as Mrs. WBill) and our table was pleasant, even lively.
I'm not a lawyer, but this seems to fit. I wonder if this man could file a FOIA request with the university as well as the Campus police to see what kind of notes have been generated and if any kind of file has been started.
Although, it sounds like he just wants it to go away.
Not mine. I pay cash and my store cards are under names like Herman Munster, Gomez Addams, Elmer Fudd, you get the idea :>} The older generation taking my card info grin & the clueless younger ones have no idea.
Unfortunate that the girl wasn't allowed in your house. She might have seen what a well-adjusted family looked like and would still be around today.
>Last Christmas, that same girl overdosed on her mother’s prescription drugs. Which house was more dangerous?
Yours... that sticker might have had Cadmium treatments... [/sarc]
Stay away from the liberal arts !
It’s still majority left in math, science and engineering but they have less an opportunity to impose their viewpoint.
That has been point-out to our State Police commanders & spokesmen in numerous public forums — all to no effect. They are convinced that they are correct and the public is wrong.
>I laughed at her and patted my hip. The fear on her face was priceless.
LOL - Awesome.
Paula Anderson’s middle name is Pansy, no doubt.
Holy Moly...the woman is unbelievable...what a dunce for a professor.
Are you totally ignorant or just pretending? First amendment rights were violated. He has the right to say what he wants without the police comming to get him and violating his rights to free speech. I suppose if you had given a talk about how f****d up Bozo is and they came to get you, you wouldn't think a thing about it?
If you see nothing wrong with this then you should be happy with the frickin' concentration camp you will be sent to soon!
Give them time.
They HAVE already checked on a few people to see what they bought or checked out.
This prof needs to be sued--only way to get her attention and let her know conservatives have rights, too--at least for now.
vaudine
None of your damn business is where I keep them.
Oh, and she had a "go green" sticker on her truck. /sigh
Many campus police are not "rent-a-cops". They are sworn police officers that work at campus precincts or branches. Any and all normal police information is available to them. Add in a State that requires firearm registration (mine doesn't) and you've got it.
The cops at our state university are real cops. This may or may not be the case at the university in question.
Exactly.. I once had an officer ask me to come to the station and sign
for a ticket that a "citizen" reported on me. Speeding I think. Anyway,
I told him flat out, No. I never heard back.
I always refer to my attorney's advice not to talk because it places
the blame of cooperation on the attorney instead of myself. They can't argue that
in front of a grand jury.
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