Posted on 06/06/2013 7:14:14 PM PDT by servo1969
In lieu of guns, people who find themselves in dangerous situations at or near the University of Arkansas should defend themselves by glancing and nodding, said a university safety expert.
Earlier this year, the Arkansas legislature approved a concealed carry law, but gave school administrators permission to override the law and ban guns on campuses. Most Arkansas universities, including the University of Arkansas and Arkansas State University, opted to prohibit concealed carry, according to The College Fix.
But disarmed faculty and staff members are vulnerable to attack when traveling to and from campus, according to a chain of emails sent between UA staff members, one of whom was assaulted by three teenagers on his way to class.
“I had not gone very far before I was attacked from behind by two of them and received a number of blows to the back of my head,” wrote the faculty member, a UA professor of biology, in an e-mail. “Given the proximity to this campus and the fact that a number of our students, faculty and staff walk through this very same area on both a daily and nightly basis I felt it prudent to share this info with you and to advise you to be on your guard while in the vicinity.”
Another faculty remember responded to the email saying that a student had been attacked in the same area.
Sharon Houlette, a detective with the UA Department of Public Safety, responded to the thread with advice for avoiding being attacked, which included a suggestion to “glance or nod” at possible attackers.
“A glance or a nod will help you show anyone who might think that you are not paying attention, and you are aware of their presence,” she wrote.
She also suggested parking on campus and using the trolley system, and offered to host a crime prevention workshop.
But Nic Horton, editor of The Arkansas Project, had a different suggestion for keeping safe on campus.
“If you must step foot on a college campus, choose one that respects your 2nd Amendment rights,” he wrote.
Soon to be Darwin award winner.
Or just whip out your johnson and wave it; either one is equally effective.
She's never heard of an "easy mark". Unfortunately, someday she will be one. That will be her last day.
the same ones that nod and whistle at crows in their garden....
I fire one shot..hang an offender on a stick and the crows seem to spend more time in the whistler and nodders garden next door...they always ask my secret...and I always tell ‘em...lead based fertilizer.....*W*...(they dont get it...but it gives them something to research on the Internet after they buy dinner...
How about telling the women to go sans panties; that way the attacker can have his way more easily and be gone before you can say “in and out”.
Liberals are incapable of feeling embarrassment.
Why don’t people get in the faces of these numbnuts and tell them how stupid they are? Why would anyone be polite to an idiot that could say something like that?
it appears quakers deny the biblical right to self defense, or the right of defending others being unlawfully attacked. they apparently can’t make the clear distinction between righteous self-defense and immoral attacks by evil people.
the bible does not support pacifism.
I hear ya there brother!..the last time I made a judgmental nodding...The cops cuffed me and took me away!...next time...I'll non-judgemental nod and hope the hell they know the difference!
"Watch out, guys! We outnumber him, and we have weapons and youth on our side, in this secluded area... BUT!!! He is aware of our presence! He NODDED!!! There's no WAY that we can beat him and take his money now! Curses! Foiled again!"
I believe the ‘glance or a nod’ in criminal-speak means
‘I am just another un-armed sheep waiting to be slaughtered because Dems assured me that it would save the children, BAAA, BAAA, AHHHHH, Help me...’
Maryland is full of them, they run the place.
You wont see Sen Kirsten Gillibrand NY demanding hearings on the women attacked here, and her solution would be gender equality sensitivity training.
> ...said a university safety expert.
Clearly, he is not.
Anybody who has ever been called an expert by others because of his eperience and training know this one truth. You can ALWAYS be wrong despite your professional opinion.
Just curious. What do you think your sister would do if you were being attacked? Would she help, or would she let you die? I’d like to think a situation like that would snap her out of it.
“If she doesn’t believe her own life is worth fighting for, then she has no value for other lives. If she was attacked, I would not lift a hand to help her.”
I read an article a long time ago written by a Buddhist priest in Boston who carried, and when asked why,he said that if a person is unwilling to defend himself, then how can he be expected to defend others, especially those he does not know.
Smart guy.
“My sister-in-law for years has said she is a Quaker and doesn’t believe in violence and an attacker would sense that and not hurt her.”
Funny. I had a female liberal co-worker once who said that African Americans AKA black dudes in Skid Row are harmless. Not once did she walk outside the building. She was a pretty brunette and always asked me to walk 50 feet to the corner store for pop. This was during my intern days of my senior year at university for my thesis. That’s why I hate liberals. They’re all a bunch of hypocrites..
“Who you lookin’ at, honky?”
Good luck if you nod at a gang member whose rival gang’s sign is a nod instead of those old-fashioned hand signs.
Liberal bobbleheads.
I hate the way they nod incessantly when they are lying to you, too.
A study made by female sociology graduate students provided the result that the nod could be augmented. If the attackers are on the right, a very slight tilt of the chin rightward and then down was found to be more effective than a straight chinned nod. The glance must not be furtive. It must be full on with somewhat squinted eyes.
The failure to enhance the nod and menacingly squint could result in a 38% more likelihood of being attacked. Surprisingly to the researchers, the effect of not squinting but modifying the nod, or modifying the nod but not squinting had the same effect. That is a 46% more likely hood of attack.
There are other avenues of study including the effect of smiling or not smiling, showing lots, some or no teeth. These were not included however because the grant funds were all used up.
The use of a scowling glance and nod was rejected as being active rather than the always desirable passive state.
“What do you think your sister would do if you were being attacked? Would she help, or would she let you die?”
She wouldn’t help - she would feel bad that I died.
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