This is the sort of article that makes you think – about how silly gungrabbers have become.
First, a legislator wants to pass a law. It’s either a perfectly sensible – dare I say ‘common sense?’ – law or the most horrifically dangerous miscarriage of the legislative process you can imagine, depending on your opinion of one little thing…
State Representative Sonny Borrelli has introduced House Bill 2072 which states that a person who is “authorized to carry a concealed firearm” is allowed to do so on the campus or property of any public university, college, or community college.
Arizona is one of a handful of states that has already eliminated the licensing requirement for concealed carry. This happened several years ago to the sound of anti-gunners rending their garments and crying out jeremiads that blood would surely flow in the streets. I would have thought that by now any law regarding guns on campuses must surely be moot, since all Arizona campuses are now bleak empty windswept places filled with the dessicated remains of the dead – like every other place in Arizona with the possible exception of an occasional convent or Everytown office.
To my shock I learn that scattered survivors still linger, and still mouth the same old shit…
“Talk to any university police officer. They do not want to have a so-called ‘hero’ coming out with a gun and taking charge [because] they’re not properly trained. And it makes it harder for the police to tell who the good guy is,” [state Senator Steve] Farley added.
Setting aside the opinions of the highly trained university police with their flawless* record of putting down active shooters, it has been proven – over and over at wearying length that none of these objections ever turn out to be relevant in practice. The horrifying what-ifs never actually happen. Untrained “good guys with guns” don’t mow down bystanders, cops don’t accidentally shoot them upon eventually arriving at the scene, and minor arguments rarely degenerate into lethal gunfights.
Be that as it may, we are solemnly assured that any such campus law would surely be disproportionately hard on women…
Jasmine Lester, leader of the student organization Sun Devils Against Sexual Assault at Arizona State University, told New Times that allowing guns on campus will make it more dangerous for women.
She goes on to cite a National Coalition Against Domestic Violence study that says “Guns increase the risk of homicide by 500 percent for women in domestic violence situations.”
Ah, how the wind must whistle through the bullet-riddled windows of all those miles of empty Arizona houses. Crows and cats must have feasted for a time on the mounded dead as all those newly-empowered gun owners turned on their families and each other in the brief, horrifying orgy of killing after the passage of that licensing repeal. I wonder if the misguided Arizona legislators had time to regret their irresponsible foolishness before inevitably being gunned down by crazed Arizona gunowners?
And now the scattered survivors want to bring the same carnage to Arizona college campuses? Tragic fools.
If only they had listened to more faux statistics…
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*Flawless in the sense that the paper upon which a written list of times when campus cops have been of some use in such cases was written would remain unflawed by any mark.
Amazing that the university I went to didn’t have any “campus cops.” We had parking lot attendants, and you went to the dean if you got a ticket. I never got on, or knew anyone who did. But still…
I have no idea if anyone else was armed either. It just never came up in any discussion I ever had. We never had any violent attacks on campus either, that I remember. But that was in the late 60s and early 70s. .
This same nonsense has been cranking along since I was in college in the early seventies. The campus police at the University of New Mexico were all retired cops who slept through their shifts anyway.
NICELY DONE SIR!
I carried a gun on &*&**** State University campus for 15 years, Nobody knew, nobody got hurt. Just business as usual. It was LEGAL (I was trained, experienced and licensed), but done without “permission” from the university. If discovered, I would have been fired.
However, not legally penalized.
I suspect that thousands of others have ignored college regulations in favor of common sense practices across america.
Passing laws doesn’t make the practice “without risk” for the individual. Educational institutions usually have rules stating that you can carry if licensed and if “written permission” is issued by the college .. which it never is.
After that, there are restrictions about which buildings you can enter while carrying. Generally speaking … none of them.
And finally, of course, if someone spots a gun grip you will be escorted off the campus for the rest of your life. Goodbye academic career whether student, staff or faculty. These people won’t do anything about a person who carries a gun illegally, but legal carry is a definite NO NO.
Jerry, you’re not alone. Lots of us “campus carry” discreetly in states where it’s not illegal but would certainly get you terminated from your job. In my state, universities recently got schooled by the state supreme court on the legality of having a gun in your car after they wrongly fired an employee for just that (see Mitchell vs. UK).
Having worked on a college for 14 years, it’s kind of amusing to hear campus cops warn about lack of training. Active shooter classes aside, I likely get more trigger time than all our local campus cops combined.
Oh, and parking lot attendants? Sheesh, our parking lot patrol, made up mostly of student workers, perform their assigned duties with zeal that would impress the Knights Templar. If they had only been so motivated back then, we’d have no islam problem at all today…heh.
Can’t say I remember the age group of the “attendants” now… that was 40 years ago, but I do remember the zeal! Luckily, there was plenty of parking available, both on and off campus, so I never got personally involved.