Lunatic Michelle Malkin wants MORE guns on campus. "Anti-gun officials put students at risk"

[Bluebear]

Wanted — A culture of self-defense

There's no polite way or time to say it: American colleges and universities have become coddle industries. Big Nanny administrators oversee speech codes, segregated dorms, politically correct academic departments and designated "safe spaces" to protect students selectively from hurtful (conservative) opinions — while allowing mob rule for approved leftist positions (textbook case: Columbia University's anti-Minuteman Project protesters).

Instead of teaching students to defend their beliefs, American educators shield them from vigorous intellectual debate. Instead of encouraging autonomy, our higher institutions of learning stoke passivity and conflict-avoidance.

And as the erosion of intellectual self-defense goes, so goes the erosion of physical self-defense.

Monday morning, as news was breaking about the carnage at Virginia Tech, a reader e-mailed me a news story from last January. State legislators in Virginia had attempted to pass a bill that would have eased handgun restrictions on college campuses. Opposed by outspoken, anti-gun activists and Virginia Tech administrators, that bill failed.

Is it too early to ask: "What if?" What if that bill had passed? What if just one student in one of those classrooms had been in lawful possession of a concealed weapon for the purpose of self-defense?

If it wasn't too early for Keystone Katie Couric to be jumping all over campus security yesterday for what they woulda/coulda/shoulda done in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, and if it isn't too early for The New York Times editorial board to be publishing its knee-jerk call for more gun control, it darned well isn't too early for me to raise questions about how the unrepentant anti-gun lobbying of college officials may have put students at risk....

http://159.54.226.83/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070420/OPINION/70419053/1049

[oscarmitre]

1. New meme on the loose

Mark Steyn was babbling about this as well. It's on the loose now. Perhaps every baby should be given a handgun at birth?

[jimshoes]

2. And let's make sure they're

locked and loaded on championship football game days. Especially after the kegs have all been drained and the winning team begins its celebrations. I'm sure that bullets fired in celebration will not puncture flesh and rip up internal organs. :sarcasm: :banghead:

[tanyev]

3. Oh, please.

Just about every college student who has an early morning class rolls out of bed at the last possible minute, throws on some flip-flops, maybe a clean t-shirt, and maybe tries to pat down the bed-head with their hands as they run to class. Even IF they could lawfully have a concealed weapon, who's going to take the time to arm themselves every single day? Where are they going to conceal it?

I thought the whole point of the last couple millenia was mankind slowly working toward a society where it is no longer necessary to arm yourself each and every day.

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. How about pictures and audio sound bites from Malkin instead?

She could frighten the bark off a tree, to say nothing of a whacko with a gun.............................

[Berry Cool]

5. What if just one student in one of those classrooms

had been in lawful possession of a concealed weapon for self defense? I'll tell her what.

The person could have been shot down by a campus cop just arriving on the scene and not realizing who started it all. And that's just one thing.

[oscarmitre]

6. She'd frighten the bark out of a rabid dog.