Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
By Brent Johns
Contributor
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One single vote could have unleashed a firestorm in Waco. A student government bill would have supported allowing certain students to carry a concealed handgun on Baylor property. I applaud Baylor student government for standing, however narrowly, in opposition to the extreme measure.
As much as the speakers at the Senate meeting tried to argue (albeit optimistically) that each gun owner had “enough” experience to carry a hidden handgun on our campus, I believe that it is important to note that Jared Loughner, the Tucson shooter, and Cho Seung-Hui, the Virginia Tech killer, were 100 percent legal handgun owners.
They used those same weapons to tragically end the lives of many people. Likewise, these activists cannot guarantee the motives,
And a community outreach program would have prevented Amanda Collins rape, and another student's rape and murder, and the carjacking and kidnapping at UofH, and the assault on a girl at knifepoint at UofH, and the armed robbery in the second floor bathroom at San Antonio College... how?Perhaps student government should engage the local community in a set of outreach programs rather than trying to form a student militia.
