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utbagpiper wrote:
While I expect most of the well paid, tenured faculty don't want to carry anyway, it is the poor students, and low paid service employees (the guys working graveyard doing janitorial work) who are least able to fight the bully that is the college administration on these kinds of things.
Of course tenured faculty don't want to carry. I've known many, and most I've known are somewhat timid of society in general. They retreat into academia to escape that confrontation, and when it threatens them, being non-confrontationalists, they're not ones to defend themselves.
"You've been living in a dream world, Neo..."
Instead, they enact rules meant to protect their dream world, but hopelessly amiss as they don't actually live in a dream world, but the real world. We know their approach doesn't work, as we don't live in their dream world. But they don't know that. They're idealists, who're allowing their idealism to overpower statistically-based facts.
They can have the security they wish, but to do so, they have to rebuild those ivy walls, post guards and metal detectors at every entrance, motion sensors between the entrances, and search each and every book bag, pocketbook, underarm, waistband, hat, and boot of every entrant.
Then they'll be safe,
right?
(rolls eyes)
No - that's the fantasy.
The reality is that we're never safe. At best, we can be as prepared as possible to defend ourselves against the threat.
Or not. Some of us choose to enact fantasy rules and live in a dreamworld, thereby actually increasing the danger from the threat both to themselves, as well as to the employees and students who'se job it is, in part, to protect.
Again: Why are these people in charge of an institution of higher learning? Did they all fail American and World History together?