Yikes ... those darned Texans are at it again...

[PeterB]

... first those idiotic textbook revisions, now this:

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/...campus.ece

... just what we need on campus: guns! :barf:

[Mac1337]

I am sure you had a similar post when concealed carry was being debated a decade ago. Shoot outs in traffic circles was supposed to be a daily occurrence.

[kap]

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral?!!
High Noon?!!

:biggrin:

[Uncle Wig]

They're about to pass that same law here in AZ, along with a whole raft of other stupid shit. Our legislature is so insane that there is now a movement for the southern half of AZ to secede from the rest of the state, with Tucson being the capitol. It's a rather silly idea, but I can sure understand our temptation!

[cbelt3]

Uh hmm....

I had a gun on campus in the late 70's. I was on the pistol team. I had the gun in the dorm. I carried it in my backpack to class, and then to practice. I did NOT keep it loaded (I'm not an idiot). I also carried a sword because, hey, I was on the NCAA fencing team. Ok, it would take a lot of work to actually kill someone with a blunted fencing foil....

The point is that we didn't have shootouts on the campus quadrangle back then, and there were no rules forbidding having guns on campus. Yeah, sure, a few campus snipers (think of the "I don't like mondays" sniper made famous by the Boomtown Rats), but that level of crazy exists all over the place.

Are our children's generation just so effing insane that we have to protect them from themselves ?

Where does Nanny State thinking end ? And WHY is it considered horribly wrong to expect rational behavior?

Sorry guys. I don't understand how this is all so horrible. Can someone please justify your thinking to me ?

[Mac1337]

cbelt3 wrote:

Sorry guys. I don't understand how this is all so horrible. Can someone please justify your thinking to me ?

Simple. It is because people with guns kill. Didn't you know that? Of course, when 5 convicted murderers break out of jail, the "guns don't kill, people do" crowd drive gun sales through the roof.

[cbelt3]

dak- so that's your rationale for thinking that allowing guns on campus is a bad thing ? :confused:

[mattkime]

>>Where does Nanny State thinking end ?

Where does the hyperbole end?

[Pam]

cbelt3 wrote:


Are our children's generation just so effing insane that we have to protect them from themselves ?

Yes. And protect others from them. The younger generation doesn't settle arguments/disrespect the way we did.

[cbelt3]

Pam-
Thank you. I'll agree with that point. Good one. I had not considered it.

The whole 'diss' / 'revenge' cycle and casual violence common in the urban youth culture is a shame in our society. It was, of course, in existence in my generation among urban youth, but not as extreme as it is now.

My thinking is obviously colored by my rather beige suburban existence.