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Two stories from college, two different endings

May 8, 2:41 PMSeattle Gun Rights ExaminerDave Workman
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   There have been two markedly different tales of violence and bloodshed from two different college towns that ended two different ways, reflecting the vast differences in culture and the gaping chasm that exists between the political correctness of the gun-free zone mentality and the common sense of being prepared.
   Story #1 comes from Middletown, CT, where 21-year-old Johanna Justin-Jinich will not see another birthday because a man identified by police as Stephen Morgan shot her dead on May 6 at an off-campus bookstore café. Morgan was caught by a surveillance camera with a gun in his hand.
   Alarming about this tale is that two years ago, Justin-Jinich filed a harassment complaint against Morgan when the two were attending a summer school session in New York. Published reports say the 29-year-old suspect had sent the woman “dozens of insulting e-mails” and had called her repeatedly on the telephone.
   Police found a journal in Morgan’s car that suggested he planned to murder the young woman, and then go on a campus shooting spree.
 
Police responding to the fatal shooting of a Wesleyan University student found a journal with an entry saying "I think it okay to kill Jews and go on a killing spree" and "Kill Johanna. She must Die,"
 
   He is in custody, charged with murder, and she is dead, and it is not because the college campus environment is safer without guns. There is no way of knowing if this young woman might have availed herself of a firearm for personal protection, but on college campuses around the nation, and in the immediate surrounding neighborhoods, guns are frowned upon by the PC set because, as we all know, there is some sort of moral superiority to being a murder victim, rather than a survivor whose attacker is found lying dead because he made a fatal error in the victim selection process.
   And that brings us around to Story #2, from College Place, GA where ten college students were celebrating a birthday party at an off-campus apartment early on May 3 when two thugs came crashing in. One of these gentlemen was later identified by police as 23-year-old Calvin Lavant Jr., and he will not be doing home invasion robberies anymore.
   According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Lavant and another man first took wallets and cell phones from their intended victims. They then separated with men from the women. According to WSBT News, as Lavant was moving the women into another room, his companion reportedly asked “how many bullets” he had. His reply was that “he had enough.”
   What Lavant didn’t have was bullet-proof clothing. One of the men reached into a backpack and pulled his handgun and opened fire. The other thug ran off, and when the armed student rushed into the other room, he found Lavant evidently preparing to rape his girlfriend. He fired at Lavant, who jumped out of a window. He made it to another part of the apartment complex before he dropped dead.
 
They just came in and separated the men from the women and said, ‘Give me your wallets and cell phones…The other guy asked how many (bullets) he had. He said he had enough,” said Bailey.
 
   One of the women was wounded in the exchange of gunfire, but she will recover, and she had not been raped or murdered.
   There are lots of stories like this. Anybody familiar with a string of crimes up in Seattle’s University District should recall the murder of Rebecca Griego two years ago in her office on the University of Washington campus understands how defenseless some students feel.
   Yet college administrators pontificate from their ivory towers that armed students on their campuses would be a very bad thing and distract from the educational process.
   As if being raped, robbed and/or murdered doesn’t.
 
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