Apr 16 2008
Naive Students Demonstrate for Gun Control at Duke
CHAPEL HILL - A midday gun protest expected to draw 32 participants instead drew about 60 to the UNC-Chapel Hill campus today.
The protest, one of about 80 taking place in 33 states, came on the one-year anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings. Organizers wanted to draw attention to what they believe are lax gun laws.
Th plan was for 32 participants to lie on the ground for three minutes, acknowledging the 32 victims of the shooting. But nearly twice that many participated in Chapel Hill, including one young boy and a chocolate labrador retriever.
We can’t all be blessed with intelligence and it’s amazing how many of those less fortunate in the intellectual realm manage to get accepted to higher educational institutions. One can only hope that as these children enter the real world after Duke and blossom into adulthood a few cells in their heads will split, multiply, and eventually become a thinking brain.
The tragedy of last year’s incident of Virginia Tech occurred for many reasons, but certainly not because of lax gun laws. These demonstrators for some reason continue to forget that most college campuses in this country, VT included, are “gun free zones.” Guns are already banned there, which makes them perfect targets for people like Fu Man Chu who decided to use the school as his personal target practice last year. He certainly wasn’t worried about anyone fighting back during his rampage because he knew he’d be the only one with a gun. Funny how that works, isn’t it?
The issue here is over regulation of the Second Amendment rights of every one of those students. Had they been allowed to have a gun as the Constitution guarantees there is a good possibility that none of these deaths may had even occurred as the shooter may have thought twice about it. Now granted, since he killed himself when he was done, that may not have mattered to him anyway, but the death toll may have been far less if one of the students in the building that he tore through like Rambo could have pulled out their own firearm and shot him dead in his tracks.
Perhaps some day these kid will learn some lessons in logic, but when their Dean is out their engaging in this silliness with them it’s not hard to understand how these young, impressionable minds are getting filled with this kind of gobbledygook.
I hope you are right; that these young minds will wise up before they loose the right to own a gun in general; then for sure the only ones carring will be the “bad” guy.
A small amount of knowledge has always been a dangerous thing to possess; and in this case across the country, we are seeing what an effect it is having on us all. With each right that we have taken from us; it opens yet another door for another one to be taken next.
Wise up America… our Amendments were put there to protect us “ALL”…