Of all higher ed issues facing the Legislature, guns on campus shoots to top

[jpak]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/jun/01/all-education-isses-tackle-guns-campus-gets-hearin/

Of all the problems facing the beleaguered Nevada System of Higher Education, which one seems so urgent that the Legislature would take it up? Perhaps it’s how to deal with deep budget cuts, which will be at least $200 million when you count the loss of federal stimulus money? Or access for underprivileged students? Or graduation rates? Or the division of resources between UNR and UNLV?

Well, if you guessed any of those, you’d be wrong. The real pressing issue? We’ve got to make it easier for people to carry concealed firearms on campus. Hell yeah!

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Our universities, which are cutting salaries, jobs and even whole programs, will for years find it difficult to recruit talented faculty. This legislation — and make no mistake, news of its passage will spread quickly — will only make it harder to shed our Dodge City reputation. From my research, it seems only Utah allows anything similar, although other states, including Texas, are getting close to approving campus guns. Conservative Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer — Jan Brewer! — vetoed similar legislation in Arizona.

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The gun lobby, despite near total victory in the past two decades, apparently won’t be satisfied until we all have a gun under our pillow, a gun at a UNLV keg party, a gun on our hip as we walk the Strip.

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GOP morans have their priorities - ignorance is strength!

[ileus]

1. The safety of the people must be assured, CCW brings that to reality.

[jpak]

2. No it doesn't

yup

[gejohnston]

3. based on what? Please be empirical and specific.

[jpak]

7. What empirical and specific data says it does?

none

yup

[gejohnston]

10. I asked first.

[spin]

4. Yes it does.

yup

[saras]

5. It's a good system to get more right-wingers and fewer progressives in the universites

There's nothing quite like a wingnut with a gun and official permission to use it to shut down debate of difficult topics.

[gejohnston]

6. are all against arguments as absurd as yours?

Seriously. You assume that only wing nuts have guns, which is false. You assume all conservatives are incapable of rational debate, which is also false. You assume that only or all progressives only engage in rational debate, which is also false as evidenced by your post and some postings on progressive sites read like something from free republic.

Now, do you have a logical point based on anything factual?

[ileus]

8. Firearms aren’t tools of intimidation you know...they assure fair debate if anything.

[krispos42]

9. Ignorance does not become you

Neither does dumbass arguments like that.