Higher education board restores campus gun ban (OR)

[jpak]

http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120303/NEWS0107/203030385/1009/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01

A gun ban on Oregon’s seven university campuses is back in force, with some modifications.

The Oregon Higher Education Board voted unanimously Friday to adopt an internal policy that prohibits anyone who has signed a contract with the university from carrying a gun on campus. That includes employees, students, vendors, people buying sports tickets, and people attending camps on campus. The ban went into effect immediately.

“We wanted to get as close back to where we were” with the old rule, which has been in force since 1978, said board spokeswoman Diane Saunders. “We’ve been lucky in Oregon. We have not had the kind of (gun attack) that Virginia Tech has seen. We believe it is because we have been able to regulate firearms on campus.”

The ban would not apply to someone without any formal relationship to the university who walked across campus with a gun, she added. The policy makes exceptions for police on duty, military programs such as the Reserve Officer Training Corps, storing unloaded weapons for hunting or target shooting clubs, and family housing.

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backlash

yup

[petronius]

1. Didn't VT also regulate firearms on campus?

"We have not had the kind of (gun attack) that Virginia Tech has seen. We believe it is because we have been able to regulate firearms on campus.” "

It seems like gun control advocates say "Virginia Tech!" the same way RWingers used to say "9/11!" - as a justification for any position, no matter how irrelevant...

[TPaine7]

5. Too many gun control advocates lack the

capacity to think critically--at least on gun policy.

If posting signs and editing the student handbook could stop mass shootings then there was no luck involved.

On the other hand if that is not the case and it is luck, her policy is powerless to stop mass shootings.

Her argument is illogical; looked at from either direction.

[gejohnston]

2. I think Ms. Saunders should research

her subject before saying something like

“We’ve been lucky in Oregon. We have not had the kind of (gun attack) that Virginia Tech has seen. We believe it is because we have been able to regulate firearms on campus.”

Most if not all campuses that do allow guns on campus have been equally fortunate. She is implying that Cho was able to bring his gun on campus because VT allowed it. To the best of my knowledge, that was not remotely the case.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

3. More administrative nonsense

“We wanted to get as close back to where we were” with the old rule, which has been in force since 1978, said board spokeswoman Diane Saunders. “We’ve been lucky in Oregon. We have not had the kind of (gun attack) that Virginia Tech has seen. We believe it is because we have been able to regulate firearms on campus.”

Regulation has nothing to do with it

[shadowrider]

4. Backlash indeed

Thanks for the daily chuckle

[krispos42]

6. Diane Saunders might as well say that magical fairies deserve the credit.

"We believe it is because we have been able to have a captive fairy breeding program on campus."



Campus shootings are not done by people who have a permit and carry concealed routinely and one day, just decided to go on a spontaneous, unplanned killing rampage.