Let me tell you about what we're told is "a very sound policy":
Guns don't belong in classrooms. They never will. Virginia Tech has a very sound policy preventing same.
They're the words of Larry Hincker, Virginia Tech's associate vice president for university relations. He wrote them before the infamous massacre, in ridicule of a graduate student who questioned why he could carry off but not on-campus, especially in light of a recent school lockdown.
We saw the results of the policy Hincker promoted--and still promotes.
A year after the obscenity where a lunatic took full advantage of the helplessness guaranteed by Hincker-endorsed "No Gun" zones, The New York Times blog invited me to participate on a panel to discuss "Virginia Tech: After the Shootings." Naturally, I opted to challenge the readers to ask "Guns on Campus: Could They Prevent a Repeat?" I also had a chance to present some rebuttals here and here.
Rebuttals? Well, yeah, it was basically six antis against me. I didn't mean for representation to be so uneven, but I guess they felt the other side had enough members with gravitas to make it fair. Still, they had to venture forth comprised only of the director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy at the University of Virginia, the director of the State Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness, the pastor to the Blacksburg Police Department, the chief of mental health services for Harvard University Health Services, the general counsel for the American Council on Education, and the executive director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Josh Horwitz, who in the manner that forever endears him to me asked:
I am not surprised that David Codrea, got out of the gate first thing this morning with an argument for arming students. Mr. Codrea writes a blog titled, “The War on Guns, Notes from the Resistance” (who is he resisting?)
Why, you, Mr. Horwitz. And everyone like you. Have I not made that clear?
Anyway, I am not surprised to see the anti-defense zealots have returned to the scene of a crime enabled by their insistence on mandated helplessness. The Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention is hosting a showing of ABC's propaganda hit piece on gun ownership, "If I Only Had a Gun."
And look what will happen after everyone has been properly primed:
Following the screening, the Students for Non?Violence club will facilitate an audience Q&A session and panel discussion. At this date, confirmed panelists include Joshua Horwitz, Esq., Executive Director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Andrew Goddard and Lori Haas, parents of students injured in the shooing of April 16, 2007, and Omar Samaha, who is featured in the documentary and is a brother of April 16, 2007 shooting victim Reema Samaha.
Well, at least the antis have improved their odds for winning the debate this time.
Say, do you think there will be any armed "Only Ones" there, you know, to keep everybody safe in case not everybody respects the rules...?
Anyway, there's more good news just around the corner: the school's new alert system will be ready for testing on October 1. That's the one that will tell the Eloi that Morlocks are out hunting, and they must seek shelter inside the White Sphinx...
Thanks, Mack H.
Comments
Murderers all.
"Why, you, Mr. Horwitz. And everyone like you. Have I not made that clear?":)
How could a school in Virginia have come to be against self-defense? Clearly Sharky has taken over the Shire. Now if only we could get Grima to stab him in the back already!
The idiot doesn't know the vast different between "prohibiting" and "preventing".
"Guns don't belong in classrooms. They never will. Virginia Tech has a very sound policy preventing same."
Does Mr. Hinker think that Mr. Cho didn't see the sign announcing said policy? And to think, all that tragedy, simply because Mr. Hinker didn't insist on a bigger sign...
Rights supporters need to know that the VT Chapter of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus is planning to turn out in force to counter the anti-rights propaganda of the "peace and justice" crowd. The public is invited so anyone in the area who can attend should plan to be there. I'll unfortunately be on a plane or I'd be there with a "Guns Save Lives" button and my personal protection discreetly maintained.
Jeff Knox FirearmsCoalition.org
Had I been in one of the classrooms attacked at VaTech I'd have marched right up to that nasty killer and vomited right on his shoes! That would have stopped the incident with very little harm done. It would have been difficult, of course, to override the training in good manners that I received as a football player at the University of Miami.
The reason this has to be trumpeted so loudly and forcefully by the anti-self defense gang is simple. It is a very bad and illegitimate position. In order to get the Eloi in line with it, it has to be repeated many times, at many decibels. Only after the masses have been narcotized, will they swallow it.
10 out of 10 convicted violent felons support gun control, because it ensures helpless victims, but doesn't apply to themselves. So do the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence and the Brady Campaign. Coincidence? I think not.
I have cited Virgina Tech in several letters to our so called officials in this country and state here. Outlining the fat that those kids had to suffer a long time before the police got there and they had no way to defend themselves. How can you say that allowing guns on campus couldn't of saved lives ? Probably falling on deaf ears since they run on fear and ignorance. Chanting kum bi ya has never saved anyone!!!
So many people have been killed att Virginia Tech, recently; that the school song should be changed to "Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter".
" Why, you, Mr. Horwitz. And everyone like you. Have I not made that clear?" This was an awesome quote- well done!~
My granddaughter has decided not to go to Tech.
Sadly, most Virginia colleges -- supported with our confiscated tax dollars -- share the Tech philosophy that helplessness is the best defense. The General Assembly maintains the law that bans anyone but on-duty law enforcement from being armed on campus.
VCU in Richmond has been experiencing about three armed robberies a WEEK on and near campus. Oh, and VCU PD still blocks Main Street to check for DUIs, guns and drugs. What Constitution?
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