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Guns on Campus.........YES!!!!

Mike

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Virginia Student Group Seeks to Carry Concealed Guns on Campus
Monday , August 13, 2007



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RICHMOND, Va. —

Some college students are pushing for their schools to allow them to carry guns on campus.

They say they should have the right to protect themselves in the event of a shooting like the one that left 33 people dead at Virginia Tech.

Andrew Dysart, a George Mason University senior, has organized a chapter of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus.

The group hopes to convince legislators to overturn a Virginia law that allows universities to prohibit students, faculty and staff members with gun permits from carrying their weapons on campus.

Dysart says that the students at Tech should have had a chance to defend themselves.

Virginia law allows schools to decide whether to allow students with concealed-weapons permits to carry their guns on campus.

One state school, Blue Ridge Community College, does allow it. Schools cannot prohibit non-students or other outsiders from carrying weapons onto campuses if they have legal permits.
 

Steve

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BOSTON -- It's time for parents to make the annual trek to get back to school items, which usually includes jeans, jerseys and a few notebooks.

NewsCenter 5's Pam Cross reported Thursday that a couple of North Shore men want parents to consider something else -- a bulletproof backpack.

"They have them with them on the floor, on their laps, on the bus. They always have a backpack," said Joe Curran, of My Child's Pack.


It started with the Columbine shooting in 1999. Curran and Mike Pelonzi said that they watched and worried for their own children. They had the idea to hide bulletproof material inside a backpack. They call it defensive action.

"If the kid has a backpack next to them, or under the desk, they can pick it up, the straps act as a handle and it becomes a shield," Curran said.

It's much lighter than a 15-pound police vest. After three years of experimenting, the backpacks that were tested by an outside lab ranked threat level two. It stops an assortment of bullets, including 9-millimeter hollow point bullets. The fathers researched school shootings from 1900 to this year.

They will sell for $175, but do the special book bags play upon paranoia when most schools are called safe?

"I want to keep my kid safe. I don't care what you do -- if you want to fight the good fight or fix the world's hurts, I can't help you, but my kids are going to be safe because of these backpacks," Curran said.

If the school is unwilling to give in then maybe they could at least offer the back pack at the book store.....
 

schnurrbart

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Jinglebob said:
I sure learned a lot of good lessons while carrying a gun.

Nice place you have there, JB. Not sure I like your cattle though. I raise Tarentaise myself. They are of the moderate size class of cow. There are several in N. Dakota but I don't believe there are any in S. Dakota. Would love to work cattle on horseback but I'm afraid that I don't have enough land to worry about that right now. My daughter has two horses but rarely rides them any more. Shame!
 

Jinglebob

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schnurrbart said:
Jinglebob said:
I sure learned a lot of good lessons while carrying a gun.

Nice place you have there, JB. Not sure I like your cattle though. I raise Tarentaise myself. They are of the moderate size class of cow. There are several in N. Dakota but I don't believe there are any in S. Dakota. Would love to work cattle on horseback but I'm afraid that I don't have enough land to worry about that right now. My daughter has two horses but rarely rides them any more. Shame!

Thank you. Great grampa, grampa and dad all worked and sweated pretty hard to get and keep this little chunk of land. I hope to pass it on to the next generation, if politics and policies don't starve or run me off.

I and a neighbor both used to run some Terentaise. We both got tired of taking 15 to 20 cents a pound less.

The ones I had that were crossed on Red Angus made real good momma's. I mean real good! :twisted:

You don't need much land to work cattle ahorseback. Look at them fellers who cut cattle in an arena.

You just got to want to do it, then you'll find a way to do it. :lol:
 
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