@dezrtfish:
Glad to hear your ok, they are looking at a bill in my state to allow people with CC permits to carry on campus.
There are quite a few studies that show that firearms prevent more crimes then they allow. I can almost guaran-frackin-ty you that if three or four guys in that lecture hall had a firearm on them, that murderous bastard would have only gotten two kills instead of six. (because it takes a moment to flip the safety off.)
Other things you will NOT hear about the incident on television:
On 7 Feb, 2008 the security temp workers that were hired during the shooting scare during last semester’s finals were let go from their contract and the school went back to pre-scare levels of security. (They were unarmed, and had pretty mace, but they were at least walking the halls of every building at least.)
Campus police were forbidden to carry firearms. (They had cute little sticks and some pepper spray though.)
If Gov. Rod Blagoevich had issued FOID cards (the permits basically to own a firearm, of which ZERO have been issued since he took office, effectively removing the 2nd Amendment from the body republic) someone may have “accidentally” brought a firearm on campus to defend him/herself against the possibility of a shooting, given the rash of shootings on campus in the past few years.
Just a few thoughts.
Anyway, I have a week off of school, which really pisses me off. Why should this kid get memorialized for a week!?!? Reschedule the classes from that building in other halls, and reopen the school! You can still offer free counselling to the students, etc, but let’s not glorify this murderer more then we have too.
