"A better idea would be for appropriately screened teachers and maybe student monitors to carry weapons. A quarter of a century ago students doing military ROTC training regularly carried rifles around campus. US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia recently recalled regularly traveling on the New York subway system as a student with his rife. Perhaps there should be guns in wall cases, behind glass, at strategic points around campuses, like those fire axes, usually with menacing signs about improper use."
Which makes it appropriate to bring up my own crackpot idea for "gun control":
We should pass a constitutional amendment requiring all women to carry guns and making it illegal (punishable by 50 years in prison?) for any man to carry a gun. I think society would look a little different.
Jerry
On 4/22/07, Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> 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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