<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Courtesy of ABC News at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/liberty-university-president-urges-students-arm-35596543">http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/liberty-university-president-urges-students-arm-35596543</a></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------</div><div><h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: Proxima-Nova, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 35px; font-size: 36px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: left; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Liberty University President Urges Students to Arm Selves</h1><p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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.</span></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Let's teach them a lesson if they ever show up here," President Jerry Falwell Jr. told students at a convocation Friday.</span></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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 (<a href="http://bit.ly/1Na9kYd">http://bit.ly/1Na9kYd</a>).</span></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I've always thought if more good people had concealed carry permits, then we could end those Muslims before they walked in .," Falwell said.</span></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Questioned by a student on social media, Falwell said he was referring to Islamic terrorists.</span></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I was referring to 'those Muslims' that just carried out attacks in Paris and <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/california.htm" class="r_lapi" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px !important;">California</a>," he said in response on <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/business/technology/twitter.htm" class="r_lapi" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px !important;">Twitter</a>.</span></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Reached later by the newspaper, Falwell said, "There are many good Muslims, many good moderate Muslims."</span></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He did not respond to an email from The Associated Press seeking additional comment.</span></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In his call to arms, Falwell encouraged students to take a free class offered by campus police to obtain a permit to carry a concealed weapon.</span></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Falwell said he's decided to carry a gun after recent mass attacks. "If anything we need more people with concealed carry permits," he said.</span></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Falwell said he had also reached out to a first responder in San Bernardino to see if the school could offer scholarships to his children.</span></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Unlike his late father, the Rev. Jerry Falwell, the younger Falwell has been a low-key leader at Liberty. His father's barbed statements on contemporary issues made him a reviled figure to some and a pioneering conservative crusader to others.</span></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"That's not my thing," Falwell said in an interview with the AP earlier this year at Liberty, which was founded by his father.</span></p></div><div>---------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>Now, if you'll excuse me, I must go over to the Co-op to gat some weekend munchies. Cover me.<br><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div></div></div></body></html>