Sanity And Its Enemies
By Mitch Berg
The Missouri House of Representatives voted to allow concealed-carry permittees to carry and (in the case of students) store their firearms on the U of Missouri campus.
Of course, Athat’s got the usual pants-wetting crowd in an uproar
“Missouri’s college students should be allowed to learn and exchange ideas in an environment free from the threat of concealed guns,” University of Missouri System President Gary Forsee said in a news release Thursday. “It is hard to imagine that such a proposal could gain support given the magnitude of gun-related tragedies experienced on college campuses across the country.”
Yes, it is hard to imagine, given the illogical hysteria on the subject, much of it fed by the media.
Read the whole thing.
And realize – as President Foresee, the failed former CEO of Verizon, apparently does not – that the people with the permits are not the ones doing the fraternity pranks and playing the drinking games, much less the ones shooting up classes, like happened in the “gun free zones” at Virginia Tech and Columbine.
April 13th, 2009 at 7:21 am
I suspect that Missouri already has laws on the books about illegally shooting off weapons in populated areas, using weapons to threaten people or careless firearms use. They could, you know, threaten to prosecute people and throw the book at them if they engage in these types of shenanigans right now. Instead, they would like to maintain the fiction that a gun ban means a gun free zone instead of a zone where no law abiding person may have a gun.
April 13th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
“threat of concealed guns”
What threat?
Hoplophobia is a serious condition.
Waiting for AssClown to stop by and say something stoopid.