{"id":1651,"date":"2007-11-20T04:40:12","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T09:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2007-11-20T04:40:12","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T09:40:12","slug":"potemkin-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1651","title":{"rendered":"Potemkin Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"

A neighbor of mine points me to the same article Ann Althouse hit <\/a>today, at the U of Wisconsin paper.\u00a0 Students in the U of W system are allowed to keep their hunting guns on campus<\/a>,\u00a0 albeit secured by campus security:<\/p>\n

Kooi loves to hunt and didn’t want to give up the sport at college. He’s one of about 115 UW-Stevens Point students who store their weapons \u2014 guns, knives, bows and arrows \u2014 on campus at a secure site controlled by campus police.<\/p>\n

Six of the UW-System’s 13 four-year colleges, including UW-Madison, operate such sites, a nod to the prevalence and intensity of the state’s hunting culture. The storage sites are at their busiest right now with this weekend’s opening of the gun deer season.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ann was sanguine about the news:<\/p>\n

The University of Wisconsin is not a gun-free zone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wish I could share Ann’s enthusiasm.\u00a0 The next graf highlights why:<\/p>\n

Heightened security concerns following a shooting massacre in April at Virginia Tech have not derailed the storage sites. In fact, supporters say they are needed now more than ever to keep campuses safe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While I’m happy that the U of W system has stuck a thumb in the eye of political correctness, that last bit makes no sense.\u00a0 A shotgun locked in a police storage locker does absolutely no good against a Virginia-Tech-style shooting.<\/p>\n

Perhaps worse, it’s persuading at least one group of kids that there’s a little liberty – the actual possession of your firearms – that it’s perfectly acceptable to give up if you’re a law-abiding citizen.<\/p>\n

One or two steps up, one step back.\u00a0 We can hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A neighbor of mine points me to the same article Ann Althouse hit today, at the U of Wisconsin paper.\u00a0 Students in the U of W system are allowed to keep their hunting guns on campus,\u00a0 albeit secured by campus security: Kooi loves to hunt and didn’t want to give up the sport at college. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}