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After UCLA shooting, should colleges fear guns on campuses?
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"If this premeditated shooting at UCLA calls any policies or laws into question, it is the policies and laws denying law-abiding professors the means to defend themselves where they're most vulnerable," Students for Concealed Carry said in a statement it shared with The Christian Science Monitor. Licensed adults should have "the same measure of personal protection on campus that they're allowed virtually everywhere else," it said.
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teebonicus
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The UCLA example cited is the typical misrepresentation we have come to expect.
The shooter in that case, as in all cases, couldn't and wouldn't have been stopped by a campus ban on firearms.
The argument that removing such bans will increase the likelihood of campus shootings is simply illogical, since they have no effect whatsoever beyond disarming potential victims. They cannot and do not disarm the people who do the shootings.
The media need to get off the irrational anti-gun dime and join the ranks of sane, honest reporters and editorialists (of whom there are shamefully too few). |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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