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2014-01-17 -Short Attention Span Theater-

For some idiots, there just aren't enough guns on university campuses

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Posted by badanov 2014-01-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 In essence, she's saying "Be a nice slave. Conform. Stay silent. Admit you are inadequate." (Paraphrased from B5)

Posted by Silentbrick 2014-01-17 00:20|| 2014-01-17 00:20|| Front Page Top

#2 American universities are places of art and music, gleaming labs and fine old buildings, famous libraries and fancy football stadiums, old traditions and new thinking, beauty, youth and brains

I wonder if Glen Reynolds seen this sentence?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-01-17 05:33|| 2014-01-17 05:33|| Front Page Top

#3 American universities are places of art and music, gleaming labs and fine old buildings, famous libraries and fancy football stadiums, old traditions and new thinking, beauty, youth and brains

She left out the big three: Sex, Drugs and Rock'n'Roll. I'm mean four: Indoctrination of Marxist political pooh.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2014-01-17 05:41|| 2014-01-17 05:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Idon't want to be as paranoid as those fetishisers of the second amendment who believe if you don't have a gun, you will be a victim of people who do have guns.

Sorry professor, crime statistics prove the "fetishisers" are correct.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-17 06:28|| 2014-01-17 06:28|| Front Page Top

#5 One of the fundamental fears of the left is that a school will allow and/or encourage gun ownership. Then the population would self select (her child would never attend), the school would then have low violence and even lower Marxist tendencies.

Posted by Airandee 2014-01-17 07:04|| 2014-01-17 07:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Academia isn't too keen on the first amendment either...

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-01-17 07:31|| 2014-01-17 07:31|| Front Page Top

#7 There article is full of "red herrings." Many, many students live off campus and legally possess firearms and you don't read about an epidemic of alcohol, drug, sex-fueled firearm deaths around college campuses. Utah passed a concealed carry law that applied to campuses and there have not been any problems so far as I know. The latest FBI statistics indicate a decline in firearm deaths while the applications for concealed carry permits have increased. FBI violent death decline. A quote from the article:
This is not a one-year anomaly, but a steady decline in the FBIs violent-crime rates, said Andrew Arulanandam, spokesman for the National Rifle Association. It would be disingenuous for anyone to not credit increased self-defense laws to account for this decline.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-01-17 08:41|| 2014-01-17 08:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Can we say "abortion rights fetishisers"? Is that a thing now?

Posted by Iblis 2014-01-17 09:23|| 2014-01-17 09:23|| Front Page Top

#9 Fetishiserophobe.... nice ring to it.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-17 09:36|| 2014-01-17 09:36|| Front Page Top

#10 Homosocial triangles in Faulkner? What does 'homosocial' denote? Men sitting on the porch, talkin' and spittin'?

Posted by KBK 2014-01-17 10:19|| 2014-01-17 10:19|| Front Page Top

#11

Posted by Blinky Shlong8802 2014-01-17 10:31|| 2014-01-17 10:31|| Front Page Top

#12 Typical whine against guns, as if the gun was the problem, and not the people wielding it..

There's not a gun that ran amock, shooting people with no regard, there's always been a nut holding it, which is ignored, "It's always the GUN's Fault, at least to these short sighted idiots.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2014-01-17 11:06|| 2014-01-17 11:06|| Front Page Top

#13 It is always so cute when residents of the blue-state bubble try and pretend they know all about red-state, conservative, Tea Party, constitutionalist types. It's like the six blind men and the elephant, trying to describe something they have never actually seen.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2014-01-17 11:42|| http://www.ncobrief.com 2014-01-17 11:42|| Front Page Top

#14 NPR National propaganda radio. Frum as a conservative? No. He's an establishment beltway weasel who was a Bush guy. GOP does not mean conservative. Only someone in a liberal bubble would use Frum as a conservative example.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-01-17 13:24|| 2014-01-17 13:24|| Front Page Top

#15 OMG -- joooooos!! You can't trust those people, donchaknow

Trailing Wife,
don't forget. Gun Control worked out so well for the Jews the last time they tried it.

Posted by Frozen Al 2014-01-17 13:40|| 2014-01-17 13:40|| Front Page Top

#16 More guns and violent crime rates go down nationally.

More gun-free zones and violent crime goes up in gun-free zones.

The math is not difficult.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-01-17 15:03|| 2014-01-17 15:03|| Front Page Top

#17 Diane (DK) is what passes for the Liberal Aristocracy in Tallahassee. Her daddy (BK) was the Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court. The Building Housing the FSU Laywer Skool is named for him, not bad for a boy from Sopchoppy. I don't know for a fact, but I gotta hunch Daddy was hell on quail and I seem to remember DK wasn't an amateur either. Not certain on this.

Posted by Shipman 2014-01-17 15:43|| 2014-01-17 15:43|| Front Page Top

#18 Lots of aristocratic bird-hunters in the UK where self-defense is effectively illegal, Ship.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-01-17 16:17|| 2014-01-17 16:17|| Front Page Top

#19 You don't want to be as paranoid as fetishers you say? Liar or louse, this whole article is about how to accept that very level of paranoia.

AKs in the desks of college students? Whuh, last school desk I could store things in was in grade school. You little flowers studying Faulkner are likely not a problem. Its when dainty first row is walking back home, as little britches does not have NPR&Professor front row parking with armed security guards at whim, and coming across angry drunks.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-01-17 16:19|| 2014-01-17 16:19|| Front Page Top

#20 Nice job, hon. You don't come off sounding like a screeching lefty lunatic.
Oh, no. Not at all...

Posted by tu3031 2014-01-17 21:22|| 2014-01-17 21:22|| Front Page Top

#21 When I was in third grade, I managed to talk someone in the high school biology lab out of a piece of the salmon they were dissecting. I stored it in my desk for about a week, after which I had some difficulty opening the desk. Had a problem eating salmon for quite a while afterwards.

Posted by KBK 2014-01-17 21:52|| 2014-01-17 21:52|| Front Page Top

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