New anti-gun confrontation brewing

[Floyd]

http://www.chieftain.com/articles/2010/01/20/news/local/doc4b56a73793ac3927331671.txt

Looks like a real chance to show colleges that adults who don't abuse their right to own and defend themselves can carry conceal as they see fit. It's a federal right and codified in law.  

[Variola Major]

Except that the ban is almost certainly going to pass due to political pressure. I live in ground zero of this battle, and I can tell the anti-gunners are going to win.  

[ArmasTermin]

Loving some of the comments on that article.

Common sense makes me happy.  

[OberFeldwebel]

Yeah, when it passes let's just watch the crime reports come in.

That Garcia guy is a douchebag.

What I would like to see is the students that voted against this ban to just not register for the following semester or transfer out, it did seem to be a high amount of students that voted against, I wonder if the school would get the picture from this lost revenue.  

[Floyd]

OberFeldwebel

Yeah, when it passes let's just watch the crime reports come in.

That Garcia guy is a douchebag.

What I would like to see is the students that voted against this ban to just not register for the following semester or transfer out, it did seem to be a high amount of students that voted against, I wonder if the school would get the picture from this lost revenue.

My thoughts exactly.

The only reality most colleges face today is declining enrollment and revenues from tuition. I doubt a smaller school like this one could take a 15% loss in student enrollment. That, along with the alumni, legacy and parent support for the school.

They need to make a real statement of this. Not an empty threat.  

[Requiem ex Inferni]

Seems the general consensus in the comments is that this is a bad idea. I want a thread made in the ED about this to see if some of the more intelligent members will come out and throw some logic down. Hell, I'll probably make it myself.

Someone raise a valid point- all of the schools where shootings took place were gun-free zones. Psychos like Harris and Klebold or Cho will specifically target schools where they know they will face little to no opposition, because they are cowards. It's why they took their lives, rather than let themselves be caught by the police.

Hell, the only reason I don't mind my college being gun-free is because we have campus police that can get across the campus in two minutes.

EDIT: made a thread  

[OberFeldwebel]

Requiem in Mortis

Seems the general consensus in the comments is that this is a bad idea. I want a thread made in the ED about this to see if some of the more intelligent members will come out and throw some logic down. Hell, I'll probably make it myself.

Someone raise a valid point- all of the schools where shootings took place were gun-free zones. Psychos like Harris and Klebold or Cho will specifically target schools where they know they will face little to no opposition, because they are cowards. It's why they took their lives, rather than let themselves be caught by the police.

Hell, the only reason I don't mind my college being gun-free is because we have campus police that can get across the campus in two minutes.

EDIT: made a thread

Beethoven right?

lol that was me.  

[Fresnel]

In other news, there's talk in Arizona about legalizing unregistered CCW. This should be interesting. It's nice to know that there's no more intermediary steps between what we have and that.  

[Maddness91]

Fresnel

In other news, there's talk in Arizona about legalizing unregistered CCW. This should be interesting. It's nice to know that there's no more intermediary steps between what we have and that.

rofl
oh if that were only true... welcome to negotiation, and compromise... where new intermediate steps are made up just to fill out the 500+ pages of the agreement xp  

[Fresnel]

Maddness91

Fresnel

In other news, there's talk in Arizona about legalizing unregistered CCW. This should be interesting. It's nice to know that there's no more intermediary steps between what we have and that.

rofl
oh if that were only true... welcome to negotiation, and compromise... where new intermediate steps are made up just to fill out the 500+ pages of the agreement xp

I mean intermediary steps like the AWB was an intermediary towards a total gun ban. You can't go ALL THE WAY and expect to win it.