[lbo-talk] Rethinking Alexander Cockburn

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Sun Apr 22 11:08:29 PDT 2007


[Jeez, what a wacko. Actually, I didn't read any more of this column than the extract shown below -- it's too nice a day here to be sitting inside reading drivel like this:]

Weekend Edition April 21 / 22, 2007

How to Stop the Next Campus Shootings Bring Back the Posse By ALEXANDER COCKBURN

Since there undoubtedly will be a next time, probably in the not so distant future, what useful counsel on preventive measures can we offer students and faculty and campus police forces across America?

There have been the usual howls from the anti-gun lobby, but it's all hot air. America is not about to dump the Second Amendment to the US Constitution giving people the right--albeit an increasingly circumscribed one -- to bear arms.

A better idea would be for appropriately screened teachers and maybe student monitors to carry weapons. ...

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Carl

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