Posted on 02/17/2008 10:01:02 AM PST by SeekAndFind
“Fear no man of any size, call on me and I’ll equalize.” —Common engraving on Frontier firearms
“Call me simple. Call me a redneck. Call me whatever the heck you wanna call me—but until we allow credible and licensed, proven and protective professors and students to carry a weapon (gun) on campus, we will see this murderous madness occur again and again and again.”
That paragraph was lifted from my April 21st, 2007 column from Townhall.com right after Cho Seung-Hui (or Seung-Hui Cho, however the heck you arrange his name) killed 32 students on Virginia Tech’s campus. Remember that?
As I easily predicted back in April 2007, here we are, less than a year later, being forced to watch (one more time) a bloody yet easily-remedied BS scenario from hades unfold upon our nation’s young people.
Last Thursday at Northern Illinois University, the now resident of hell, Stephen Kazmierczak, strolled into a class packed with 162 students and opened fire with a shotgun and three handguns, killing five students and wounding sixteen others and firing over 50 rounds before the toad killed himself (why can’t they start with suicide?).
Un-be-lievable.
The victims, Gayle Dubowski, 20, Catalina Garcia, 20, Julianna Gehant, 32, Ryanne Mace, 19, and Daniel Parmenter, 20, were accomplished students full of life, hopes and dreams that were cut down before they ever hit their stride. If that happened to one of my kids I would be gutted and extremely PO’ed that their campus had pretty much nothing in place to stop this kind of mayhem. No one was there to stop Kazmierczak. A prof or an “of age” licensed to carry student with a pistol probably could have.
The NIU slaughter—which was, by the way, one of 45 shootings (five this week) since 1996 that have occurred on campuses in the United States in “gun free zones”—will not be the last. The mass murderers among us have taken quite the shinin’ to shooting up our students at their schools. The principal reason is that it’s so easy for them to carry out their death wishes because university officials will not allow good guys with guns to carry in class and be an onsite deterrent to death-dealing dillweeds.
Hey, “all wise” college presidents and other admin wizards: Until you allow guns—real guns, guns that go bang and kill bad guys—you (to make it personal), your faculty and the students you’re responsible for will continue to be sitting ducks, potential fleshy sponges to soak up the hot lead from some pathetic loser’s happy trigger finger. The gun free stuff ain’t working.
I know what you’re thinking: “It’ll never happen at my school.” That’s probably the same smack the chiefs at the 45 schools and universities since ‘96 thought right before their students were perforated by bullets flying anywhere between 1200 – 2800 feet per second.
Now I’ll be the first to admit, I am not nearly as astute as the suits that head up our nation’s bastions of higher edumication, but as a simple man, I’m smart enough to know that you should never bring a knife to a gun fight, and if the mass murderers are using guns, maybe, just maybe, you guys ought to get one—or ten.
Listen, Dr. Numbnuts, all the talk you guys have been doing about proper precautions on campus, all the extra fat security cops you’ve recently employed with faster golf carts, shinier badges and long range pepper spray are no threat to a perp with a gun and the attitude to use it. A chunky butt security guard with a plastic dollar store badge and a 6-year-old can of mace on a golf cart is no help when the hellion shows up in your auditorium with a 12 gauge and three handguns.
Yes, if your foe has a gun, then he has a solid and deadly advantage, and the cops can’t get there fast enough to do much about it.
Yes sir/madam, when this type of stuff hits the fan your campus must have deadly force on the spot to counter deadly force. Duh. That is unless, of course, you’re cool with our kids being killed. I, However, am not. And as a parent of a college student I will go so far as to buy my daughter’s entire campus pistols for the guards, trained profs, and legal students if they will finally do the math and realize that putting guns in the hands of trained good guys is the only way to daunt murderous goons.
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How many students have to die?
That’s easy.
All of them.
College presidents will NEVER allow guns on campus, no matter HOW many lives they would save by doing so.
It’s not going to happen. Ever.
Only immediate solution to a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
Concur.
Once all guns are banned, this insanity will stop! Just ask any college professor! They are soo much more smarter then we are!
That’s a great graphic. Wonderful.
MAGNIFICENT GRAPHIC!
Another case of Liberalism killing people.
I was lucky enough to go to a college where guns were allowed in your vehicle. Lots of gun racks and car holsters running around. However, in a college setting, there are always dumb rules. Usually they pertain to something simple like clothing or heaters. At mine, the dumb rules happened to be “Guns in your car? Sure. But no knives over 3 inches in blade length.” Dumbest dichotomy of rules ever.
Have anyone ever thought that maybe college administrations DON’T CARE if the students live or die, and maybe even get off vicariously on the carnage?
Hate to say it, but I dn’t even feel sorry for the victims anymore. They chose to be defenseless.
Once the guns are banned, you and I wil be slaughtered like lambs.
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College administrators certainly care less about student lives than they do about ideological purity. The administrators would gladly let the entire student population die as long as they, the administrators, were able to keep their thoughts ideologically pure and, more to the point, be perceived by the chattering classes as remaining ideologically pure.
Leftist ideology over human life... by definition.
bttt
That's obvious to us, but it would require the (self-appointed) elightened, tolerant, intelligentsia to actually admit that there IS such a concept as good vs. bad, and that one is BETTER than the other. Their tolerant, morally-relativistic worldview would crumble, and they just can't go there. Innocents being slaughtered is less threatening to their psyches than letting go of their utopian illusions.
And, as long as THEY control, they don’t care HOW MANY die.
You said it so much better! (Was composing while you posted...) The sickest part isn’t that they have their utopian fantasies, it’s that they demand to impose them on EVERYbody else.
The left doesn’t want to stop the killing. It wants to take guns from honest, law-abiding citizens (a proxy for White, (successful people) and leave them in the hands of criminals (proxy for non-White, have-nots) so that they can just walk in and take whatever they want.
Just another way the left accomplishes income redistribution.
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