Press Bias - The Strib

Press Bias - The Strib yesterday carried a story about the U of M trying to declare itself above the law - at least as regards legally-permitted concealed handguns.

The story has the same paranoid, ignorant, alarm-baiting bleatings from the U administration:

"Our university community has always assumed that handguns and other weapons had no place in our classes, libraries, labs, student unions and at other sponsored activities," Bruininks said. "Given these considerations, we felt that a policy addressing the possession of weapons on campus is the best course of action for the University of Minnesota."

But most galling, the Strib article relies on campus shooting incidents that, if you look a little closer, actually make the case for concealed carry on campus:

Shootings occur every year at American colleges. Last year at least five incidents resulted in fatalities. At the University of Arizona, a failing student shot and killed three professors and then turned the gun on himself.

The story fails to note that, while Arizona is a "shall issue" state, the University had gotten itself exempted. The shooting took placed in a "Gun Free Zone".

Just like the U wants to be!

At the University of Cincinnati, a student shot two other students and then killed himself.

Until last week, Ohio was a "discretionary issue" state.

This next one is the best...

a student suspended from a Virginia law school shot and killed the dean, a faculty member and a student and wounded three others.

The article omits that the shooter was then apprehended by three students - armed with legally-permitted handguns!

Posted by Mitch at June 28, 2003 01:03 PM