[lbo-talk] Rethinking Alexander Cockburn

C. G. Estabrook galliher at uiuc.edu
Sun Apr 22 21:37:45 PDT 2007


I think he's on to something. The contrast between what happened in Blacksburg and the Appalachian School of Law shooting in 2002 seems to me a telling point. --CGE

Carl Remick wrote:
> [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. ...
>
> <http://www.counterpunch.org/>
>
> Carl
>
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