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Showing Original Post only (View all)Guns don't belong on college campuses [View all]
On two occasions during my career as a college professor, I feared for my safety when students confronted me about their final grades.
Because of the gun violence on our campuses and in other public spaces today, I think more and more about those confrontations.
In the first instance in Chicago, a young male student said to me that I would not "get away" with the grade I had given him. Even though I was in my 20s, athletic and a former Marine, I never again relaxed on campus. The second confrontation occurred in Fort Lauderdale when a female student brought her father to my office to argue her case for a higher grade. The father became so angry and threatening that I telephoned security to escort him and his daughter from my office.
Over the years, several of my colleagues have told me about similar threats. Some took the threats seriously. Others saw them as being part of the job.
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/guns-dont-belong-on-college-campuses/1250354
Because of the gun violence on our campuses and in other public spaces today, I think more and more about those confrontations.
In the first instance in Chicago, a young male student said to me that I would not "get away" with the grade I had given him. Even though I was in my 20s, athletic and a former Marine, I never again relaxed on campus. The second confrontation occurred in Fort Lauderdale when a female student brought her father to my office to argue her case for a higher grade. The father became so angry and threatening that I telephoned security to escort him and his daughter from my office.
Over the years, several of my colleagues have told me about similar threats. Some took the threats seriously. Others saw them as being part of the job.
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/guns-dont-belong-on-college-campuses/1250354
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No, but we already have gun laws...more legislation won't accomplish anything.
MercutioATC
Sep 2012
#29
Then we should see a trend towards assaults on professors by students regardless of weapon.
hack89
Sep 2012
#32
May your life be flooded in the beneficence of his sauce, and his blessings of Parmesan...
PavePusher
Sep 2012
#14
My my.......suddenly I feel the urge for a late night spaghetti dinner! :-) NT
Simo 1939_1940
Sep 2012
#21
Note also that the one shooting mentioned in the story didn't happen on campus...
friendly_iconoclast
Sep 2012
#13
"Because of the gun violence on our campuses" those would be officially designated
4th law of robotics
Sep 2012
#19
not for nothing but, we put guns in 18y/o hands and send them off to war
Tuesday Afternoon
Sep 2012
#20
Can you provide evidence that permit holders have posed a problem on campuses?
Simo 1939_1940
Sep 2012
#22