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Strange Logic About Violence in the Colorado Legislature
Sat, 02/23/2013 - 11:30am | posted by Stephen Littau
While I have my doubts about some of the more asinine gun control measures passing at the federal level, here in Colorado things aren’t looking so good for gun owners. Among the measures that stand a good chance of passing both houses of the legislature is banning concealed carry permit holders from bringing guns on college campuses. This would reverse a 2008 Colorado Supreme Court decision which stated that the CU Board of Regents could not prohibit permit holders from carrying concealed weapons on campus because college campuses were not exempted according to Colorado’s Concealed Carry Act of 2003.
These sentences in this Denver Post article jumped off the page:
“Students and guns are a bad mix,” said Rep. Claire Levy, D-Boulder, the sponsor of the bill, adding that college student engage in risky behaviors like heavy drinking and drug use.
“As the research shows, you don’t need a gun on a college campus to be safe,” Levy said, saying data overwhelmingly shows students are at low risk of violent crime on campus.
I’ve made this point before that every school campus (which would include college campuses as well as K-12) can expect to have a murder on campus once every 12,000 years. Rep. Levy is quite right that college campuses are low risk in terms of violence. But isn’t the entire impetus behind these calls for more gun control in response mostly to these tragic mass shootings in schools, malls, theaters, etc? If these events are so rare, why then do we need laws limiting the number of rounds in a magazine or clip, banning certain cosmetic features, or expanding gun free zones to include college campuses? I thought the point was that law makers need to “do something” to make our schools, malls, theaters, etc. safer (“if it would save one life…”).
It seems to me that since we are relatively safe, perhaps the best answer is to do nothing.
Agreed…but, the Administration brought this fight to the heartland…and since Colorado is now so Gay, and Stoned, and Californicated…these assnine bills might slip through…
The State will then turn back to blood RED and blast all the Democrats out of office for the next 30 years..
Yes, the logic (or lack of it) jumps right out at you, doesn’t it?
Who the hell is Claire Levy to decide that “students and guns are a bad mix,” or that “research shows, you don’t need a gun on a college campus to be safe”?
What research??? Overwhelmingly? What kind of silly science is this?
Since when was science concerned with cosmetic aspects of anything rather than the demonstrable, repeatable, provable, essence of the thing?
There’s an unspoken factor in this which needs to come to light: gun control is what is behind it all, and not “public safety.” What government ever gave a hoot in hell about “public safety”?
Unfortunately, “doing nothing” is not a likely option for any government. Activism is the thing, interference is the M.O. , and control over human action is the goal.
15 months before the VA Tech massacre occured, thousands of Americans across the country warned them about the extreme danger of banning firearms on campus yet, the smug and arrogant idiot Larry Hincker announced: “I’m sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly’s actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus.”
http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/wb/xp-50658
Forcing citizens to be unarmed anywhere is nothing less than directly assisting murderers to commit their crimes.
I admire what you have done here. I like the part where you say you are doing this to give back but I would assume by all the comments that this is working for you as well.
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