A court has ruled in Maryland that a citizen doesn’t have to justify his desire to exercise his Second-Amendment rights.
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Another victory in Colorado, where the state supreme court has restored the right to carry on campus. This will likely prevent some school shootings.
I always thought it was strange guns were banned on campus. When I went to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in the late 1970’s they were common on campus. I know I kept both a pistol and rifle in my room, the later purchased from one of the campus police officers I worked in. A friend of my, am engineering student in the dorm room next to me, ran a gunsmith business out of his room, one of three students on campus doing so. He was the one who showed me how to save money loading my own rounds.
Interesting. Most dorms don’t allow students to cook in their own room but they allowed him to have the stuff to reload ammo. Not that I disagree with the policy but it does seem a bit inconsistent. Then again, reloaders tend to be careful with their work. Students cooking in their rooms, not so much.
The students that went to tech in the 1970’s weren’t the kind to follow rules, nor was the administration that worried about enforcing them. But then the President at the time also taught the Freshman Physics class which was required for all majors, something you don’t see college presidents doing today. It was a great place to get an education.
If that’s the same school as New Mexico Tech then it does indeed sound like a fun school. They’ve been featured on several episodes of “Mythbusters” for explosives and rocket sled tests. They also had a 6 episode reality TV program back in 2009 that was entertaining. It was called Man vs Cartoon and it tested out some of the favorite Coyote vs Roadrunner cartoon inventions.
Yes, its the same school and they have been testing explosives since the 40’s in “the canyon”. It was indeed a fun place to attend and work. Just imagine an eastern school where the president would sit in on student bull sessions in the student cafe in his sweat shirt and blue jeans 🙂
I’ll never forget this story from Texas A&M:
Texas A&M University was on lockdown on Thursday as officials tracked down a man carrying what was reported as an assault weapon
About this time of year, in the afternoon, you can find either the “Fish Drill Team” or the “Ross Volunteers” practicing on campus with assault rifles. Most US Army cadets had a “rubber duck” M16 in their dorm room. I never figured out why anyone at A&M would have thought twice to see anyone with an “assault” weapon.
Then again, when I was a child, we used to run around the neighborhood with plastic “assault” rifles and pistols. Never once did any neighbor felt the need to call the police. I doubt any child could do the same today.
As reported last week from Canada, a parent can get picked up by the police if his child draws a picture of him with a gun. There have been kids get into serious trouble for bringing a 1 inch GI Joe plastic gun to school, all in the name of “Zero Tolerance” which really means Zero Thinking.
Yes, I remember about 10 years ago being in Dallas. A local HS baseball player was suspended from school. His crime? He had a 6″ replica bat sitting in view inside his locked car. The school PD claimed it was a billy club type weapon, despite the fact that it was a replica bat and the kid was on the schools baseball team. The school administration sided with their PD.
It was never an issue that in the trunk of the car, the kid had full size aluminum bats. They were considered acceptable since they were used for baseball. The kid had no prevoius record of violence nor had any one suggested that he had threatened anyone with the weapon. The PD was simply making a cursory check of cars in the parking lot while the kids were in school and noted the “weapon” which violated “Zero Tolerance”.
So yeah: Zero Thinking sums it up.
Whenever the claim of a ‘zero weapons policy’ happens near me, I ask about where the lobotomy signup sheet is.
Whenever they start complaining ‘no, brains aren’t weapons’, I am inevitably able to point out a laundry list of readily-accessible-from-here things that have been used to deadly effect in the past.
The chlorine + bleach one is (for some reason) always a shocker to the zero-tolerance types, but still strikes me as key safety tip any junior high graduate had -better- know.
You can be prevented from flying domestically for having an image of a gun on your shirt or purse.
I applaud the SAF, but frankly the passive attitude among the commenters here is depressing. “Ah, I remember the good old days.” If you’re any kind of a man, BRING BACK the good old days by any means necessary. Fortunately, SAF is made of sterner stuff than you guys.