[Vision2020] Guns on campus

[Kenneth Marcy]

On Friday 18 March 2011 14:57:55 Ron Force wrote:
>  Letter to the NY Times 17 March 2011 from Schwartz, Kay & Appelbaum:
<[snip]>
> Advocates of arming more college students are therefore trying to protect
> against an extremely rare event while potentially putting guns into the
> hands of large numbers of depressed, suicidal or intoxicated students who
> will be at increased risk, and put others at risk, too.

Oh, how quickly they forget when the pressures of partisan conformity urge 
displays of political prowess to prove oneself worthy of being a made-man! The 
legislator who introduced this abomination is a graduate of the University in 
Moscow, and should remember the peaceful tranquility, at least with respect to 
discharging firearms, that has been an endemic feature of the campus ambiance.

Yet the call to be one of the boys in Boise has convinced him to leave his 
senses in his rural outhouse, and to take with him to the urban capitol fears 
of electoral inadequacy should he fail to prove his political manhood. This 
crass and self-centered greed is unbecoming a University graduate, and is 
disrespectful behavior concerning the present matriculates of the school.

The bill's sponsor, and those who would deign to vote favorably on it, would 
do well to put themselves in the position of the students whom they propose to 
enable to carry cartridges and cannons on their persons about campus. In the 
place of a student, would a legislator voting in favor be willing to submit 
himself first, and then as many other legislators as necessary for a numerical 
match, to a voluntary suicide for each of the on-campus handgun suicides 
resulting from the permission granted to allow guns on campus? If legislators 
would not be willing to risk themselves as suicide victims, they should not be 
risking others toward the same fate with ill-conceived votes enabling it.


Ken