jnojr
Regular Member
W&M unholsters policy against guns
My email to taylor@wm.edu, sjwilm@wm.edu, and aiburn@wm.edu:
I am writing to urge you to not pass a regulation guaranteeing that W&M becomes a guaranteed defenseless-victim zone for your students.
Virginia Tech had a strict no-guns policy. That did not deter Seung-Hui Cho... he was already intent upon committing an unspeakable act of depravity. What's one more relatively-minor violation to him, or to anyone else who intends to commit some violent act? That regulation did nothing except to guarantee that his victims could do nothing but huddle in terror, waiting to be massacred.
I would urge you to consider the case of Amanda Collins, a young woman who attended the University of Nevada, and a responsible gun owner with a permit to carry her sidearm. The University had a no-guns rule, which led her to leave her gun at home... and become the victim of a rape. Her rapist went on to kill someone else. How did UNRs policy help anyone but the attacker?
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/04/0...ones-universities-unlikely-hero-nevada-woman/
Scarcely a day goes by that there isn't an article about a mugging, robbery, or violent assault near one institute of higher learning or another. Laws and rules and regulations never deter the attackers, but only the responsible and law-abiding.
Lastly, I would ask you to consider the events of October 16, 1991 in Killeen TX Another nut entered Luby's Cafeteria and began killing people. Suzanna Hupp had left her sidearm in her vehicle to comply with the law in Texas at the time, which forbade carry into restaurants. That law did not stop the murderer, but Ms. Hupp got to watch both of her parents killed while she could do nothing.
Is that really the vision you have for William and Mary? Are you so certain that your students and faculty are so irresponsible that they cannot carry the means to defend themselves and others, even though they can pretty much everywhere else in the state of Virginia? What kind of message does that send?
Again, please... reconsider this regulation. It cannot possibly do anything positive, and could wind up planting the seeds for something very negative.
My email to taylor@wm.edu, sjwilm@wm.edu, and aiburn@wm.edu:
I am writing to urge you to not pass a regulation guaranteeing that W&M becomes a guaranteed defenseless-victim zone for your students.
Virginia Tech had a strict no-guns policy. That did not deter Seung-Hui Cho... he was already intent upon committing an unspeakable act of depravity. What's one more relatively-minor violation to him, or to anyone else who intends to commit some violent act? That regulation did nothing except to guarantee that his victims could do nothing but huddle in terror, waiting to be massacred.
I would urge you to consider the case of Amanda Collins, a young woman who attended the University of Nevada, and a responsible gun owner with a permit to carry her sidearm. The University had a no-guns rule, which led her to leave her gun at home... and become the victim of a rape. Her rapist went on to kill someone else. How did UNRs policy help anyone but the attacker?
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/04/0...ones-universities-unlikely-hero-nevada-woman/
Scarcely a day goes by that there isn't an article about a mugging, robbery, or violent assault near one institute of higher learning or another. Laws and rules and regulations never deter the attackers, but only the responsible and law-abiding.
Lastly, I would ask you to consider the events of October 16, 1991 in Killeen TX Another nut entered Luby's Cafeteria and began killing people. Suzanna Hupp had left her sidearm in her vehicle to comply with the law in Texas at the time, which forbade carry into restaurants. That law did not stop the murderer, but Ms. Hupp got to watch both of her parents killed while she could do nothing.
Is that really the vision you have for William and Mary? Are you so certain that your students and faculty are so irresponsible that they cannot carry the means to defend themselves and others, even though they can pretty much everywhere else in the state of Virginia? What kind of message does that send?
Again, please... reconsider this regulation. It cannot possibly do anything positive, and could wind up planting the seeds for something very negative.