So, the University of Texas Student Government voted against allowing handgun carry on their campus.
These supposedly educated people are quoted in the article, saying educated things like:
“There are so many things we can do to make schools safer, and bringing guns on campus is not one of them,” said John Woods, a biology graduate student who authored the resolution.
Woods completed his undergraduate degree at Virginia Tech University only three weeks after the country’s most deadly school shooting. Woods said the tragedy catalyzed his involvement in gun debate.
My question to John is this: "How would your resolution have prevented what happened at Virginia Tech?"
On to Eliot, who says:
“I hope this sends a sign to our legislators that the students that would be affected by the bill really want the policy we have in place to stay in place,” said Eliot Cotton, a law school representative. “This is my safe haven, and I don’t want whoever wants to bring guns on campus to do so and compromise that feeling of safety.”
Eliot, please see my question to John. Feel free to answer.
Those students felt, as you do, that their campus was safe. Guns were not allowed there. A lot of them are no longer with us because of your head-in-the-sand attitude.
A piece of paper, a law, will not stop an determined shooter. Someone intent on shooting up a mall or college campus doesn't fear the law. They know they are going to die.
The only thing they fear is the armed citizen. Someone who will end his rampage before he is satisfied.
Your resolution removes that variable from the equation, giving free rein to anyone wanting to go on a rampage.
I hope you and those like you are man enough to accept the blame if something like that happens on a UT campus, because your actions help make it possible.
Hat tip - Murdoc.
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