{"id":819,"date":"2007-05-13T14:26:03","date_gmt":"2007-05-13T20:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/05\/13\/the-hamline-railroad\/"},"modified":"2007-05-13T14:26:03","modified_gmt":"2007-05-13T20:26:03","slug":"the-hamline-railroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=819","title":{"rendered":"The Hamline Railroad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed and I interviewed Troy Scheffler yesterday on NARN Volume II.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Troy, you may recall<\/a>, was the Hamline University student suspended from school by executive fiat for emailing the University’s president<\/em>\u00a0 to suggest that allowing students to defend themselves against mass-murderers and other criminals (Hamline is a “gun free campus, just like Virginia Tech and the Red Lake School and Cold Springs\/Rocori and Columbine…) might better serve the needs of security than wallowing in empty therapeutic blandishments.<\/p>\n

Ed beat me to the story<\/a>, so I’ll let him describe the interview:<\/p>\n

I was curious about what kind of person Troy was, and so I looked forward to meeting with him yesterday after our intrepid producer Matt Reynolds made the arrangements. I didn’t think he’d be a Seung-hui Cho type at all, but I was very much surprised when Troy turned out to be as mild-mannered as anyone I had ever met. He didn’t harbor any bitterness nor even anger over his situation, only a resigned bemusement. He, in fact, is a very nice guy caught up in the academic manifestations of political correctness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll add to that – Troy is not some twentysomething fratboy all fired up on testosterone.\u00a0 He’s in his early thirties (according to the City Pages article<\/a> that kicked the whole story off), working on getting into law school.\u00a0 My first impression was he’s about as regular as guy as they get.<\/p>\n

Ed goes on to describe Scheffler’s explication of the email traffic between him and the Hamline administration.\u00a0 He was suspended from school, and ordered to get psychiatric counseling before he could apply for reinstatement<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For writing an email <\/em>suggesting the allowing of guns on campus.<\/p>\n

The upshot?<\/p>\n

So far, the school hasn’t budged. Troy doesn’t really want to return there anyway under the circumstances, but he worries that the incompletes he had to take and the record of the suspension will damage his chances to get into law school. In fact, he has just about despaired of that career at this point, and isn’t sure what he will do now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What is certain is that Hamline should be embarrassed to have treated Troy in this manner. Had Hanson actually met Troy, she would have seen that she had nothing to fear from him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hamline’s gutless administrators\u00a0have hidden behind “student privacy” so far (although, as producer Matt Reynolds hilariously pointed out, Hamline’s switchboard isn’t so concerned about “student privacy” that they couldn’t give out the personal cell phone numbers <\/em>of several principals to the story).<\/p>\n

Come on, Hamline.\u00a0 Explain yourselves – or have the whole world know what a bunch of gutless Orwellian toadies you are.<\/p>\n

The challenge is on the table, Hamline.\u00a0 Do you have enough respect for your students, your neighbors and the public to defend your actions?<\/p>\n

Ed finishes:<\/p>\n

NOTE: Troy could use a good Second Amendment lawyer. Let me know if anyone wants to give Troy an assist in that manner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If anyone has any leads for lawyers or other organizations that help gun owners who’ve faced this sort of discrimination, write me at “feedbackinthedark” at the email address yahoo dot com.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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