Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Great Moments in Academia

This past week there was an election on campus to determine whether the student body supported concealed carry on campus. The election was a success: by 53%-47% voters supported concealed carry. The administration and student government both ignored that and appealed to Topeka to not change the law,* arguing that XXX was a campus so safe that there was simply nothing that licensed, trained, fingerprinted gun carriers could possibly make it safer from.

Then this morning I got an email that began: "XXX State University’s Co-Emergency Managers, (names and titles withheld), will provide training to the campus community on individual responses to hostile intruder – active shooter situations in the campus setting..."

So I guess since I cannot defend myself with a gun, we're going to be trained on how to most effectively lock ourselves in our offices and hide under desks, while our less fleet-footed comrades are slaughtered in the halls and classrooms.

Hooray for political correctness.

* Right now, state law empowers colleges to protect students from evil guns by posting signs that magically ward them away.

4 comments:

Giraffe said...

Licensed, trained, fingerprinted?

Yikes. Here we just go to the sheriff and say give men a license and he does.

Anonymous said...

Only 53-47 for young Kansans?
That's a shame and a bit surprising to me.
The U and student govt LOVE victimhood and death.
They Love it.
As you consistently note, how in the world would there ever be a shooter in their GFZ??
These fools are dumber than animals.
I wonder the number of abortions - the most (relatively) INNOCENT among us - for these campus fems? Even the animals struggle to reproduce and survive.

ehart said...

They will probably teach you to throw things at an intruder with a gun--most likely tennis or ping-pong balls. As one group of high school freshmen noted--why not throw something that will actually hurt? Since it was an English class where the lit books stay in the room, I said: "please, throw your books--as hard as possible."

I was distressed by the SGO's announcement. I figured a campus that could only find a dozen (maybe) to march in that liberal protest movement would have a greater understanding of what personal protection means. Aw, well, it is a college campus.

Doomfinger said...

I was informed that if AQ ever attacked, I was to hide in this bathroom...