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In reply to the discussion: University of Texas head begrudgingly OKs campus gun rules [View all]Judi Lynn
(160,840 posts)19. Can't imagine the added problems. It will be hell for ordinary students. School's not the place.
The very idea that not only do people have to worry that the isolated school-infesting loon is lurking around intending to murder someone, but also that armed dolts might misperceive situations as "life-threatening" to them and start firing, would make so many start looking for safe, civilized, non-reactionary schools, instead.
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A good question which will remain unanswered by the antigun 'Colonists' in this thread
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2016
#44
That question has been asked (and dodged) for at least five years at DU:
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2016
#50
Thank you on behalf of human beings. The world needs people who won't look the other way. n/t
Judi Lynn
Feb 2016
#21
Thanks for pointing out the significance of the effective date. It's important. n/t
Judi Lynn
Feb 2016
#22
Can't imagine the added problems. It will be hell for ordinary students. School's not the place.
Judi Lynn
Feb 2016
#19
Thanks for your post. Right-wingers do lack discipline, lack wisdom, lack clarity.
Judi Lynn
Feb 2016
#20
Oh, there's certainly paranoia- and it's coming from the firearms-averse
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2016
#43
There has been an evidence-free moral panic about the subject of the OP *for years*
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2016
#49
Factose intolerance is part and parcel of modern gun control advocacy
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2016
#63
What additional law would have prevented Whitman from killing all of those people?
pablo_marmol
Feb 2016
#57
I predicted obfuscating replies like yours *years* ago. From the link that you didn't read:
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2016
#62
There's a history of moral panic-mongering about the subject at DU:
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2016
#47
Foaming, irrational poutrage collides with the facts -- and the facts triumph.
pablo_marmol
Feb 2016
#58