Guns on Campus

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1. Pete on December 5, 2009 12:36 am

   Students should carry a big honkin bowie knife. Or a machete, or a sword, or a cane/cudgel/shillelagh. Bow and Arrow would be legal, too. Throwing knives, Ninja stars (which probably aren’t all that dangerous unless dipped in poison), a bar of soap and a sock, an ice pick or any other non-weapon expedient that they can get away with.

   I worked in a hardware store in 2001. A bit after 9/11, a little old lady came in to buy some rope. She said her daddy had shown her how to make a garrote. She was getting ready to take a trip by air, and nobody was going to hijack her plane without a struggle.

   Open an off-campus home business selling bullet proof vests, and pullet proof briefcases/backpacks.

   Maybe everybody should dress punk or goth, with lots of leather and chains – and lots of fashion accessories that can be pressed into service as weapons. Boots to kick with, studded gloves to punch with.

2. Ron Russell on December 5, 2009 8:19 am

   I noticed this article just yesterday, and happen to see where the students voted to allow guns, but were overridden by a faculty group who makes such rules. At least here the students showed some common sense.

3. Billll on December 6, 2009 1:38 pm

   The faculty group is not, in fact, allowed to make such a ruling. This is along the lines of Mayor Nutter declaring an assault weapons ban in Philadelphia in spite of this being forbidden by state law.

   The path of least resistance always leads out of town. The problem with this is that you eventually run out of other peoples towns to move to.