Ridiculously Exaggerated Article on Campus Carry

[AJ80]

http://www.redandblack.com/2011/04/12/g ... on-campus/

This article exaggerates quite a bit.I'd say even to the point of being outright lies.

[WildBill]

This isn't really an article. Just a letter to the editor from an uninformed student.

[GreezyG]

My sister thinks that way too. If you allow people to carry on campus then you would have vigilantes shooting anything that moves.
The odds of you having to defend your life during a mass shooting event are very unlikely.

What is very likely is that you will defend yourself against rape or robbery. They need to focus more on that than a mass shooting as "justification" for carrying on campus, which the Constitution allows.

[WildBill]

My sister thinks that way too. If you allow people to carry on campus then you would have vigilantes shooting anything that moves.
The odds of you having to defend your life during a mass shooting event are very unlikely.

What is very likely is that you will defend yourself against rape or robbery. They need to focus more on that than a mass shooting as "justification" for carrying on campus, which the Constitution allows.

I agree that a rape or robbery is much more likely to happen, but the media coverage is not near the level of a mass shooting. In fact, I think that some colleges like to suppress crimes that occur on and around campus. It might upset the students and worry their parents.

[AJ80]

The description of what Joe Zamudio did during the Tuscon shooting is no where close to how it really went down, at least from how I understand it.

[WildBill]

The description of what Joe Zamudio did during the Tuscon shooting is no where close to how it really went down, at least from how I understand it.

When you want to prove a point, sometimes you disregard the facts.

[OldCurlyWolf]

Just another(sigh) ignorant fool with an opinion that has absolutely no basis in fact. It saddens me (and really PO'S me) to see such a failure attending a school of Higher Learning(REALLY?) where they are taught by Idiots with advanced(??) degrees.

I really despise overeducated(and under achieving) dolts who can't pour water out of a boot with the instructions written in 1 or 2 syllable words of 5 or less letters and those instructions being on the bottom of the heel.

[alvins]

i dont call someone with a liberal arts degree an informed source of information.

[Jasonw560]

Richard Arum, whose book "Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses" (University of Chicago Press) comes out this month, followed 2,322 traditional-age students from the fall of 2005 to the spring of 2009 and examined testing data and student surveys at a broad range of 24 U.S. colleges and universities, from the highly selective to the less selective.

Forty-five percent of students made no significant improvement in their critical thinking, reasoning or writing skills during the first two years of college, according to the study. After four years, 36 percent showed no significant gains in these so-called "higher order" thinking skills.

Combining the hours spent studying and in class, students devoted less than a fifth of their time each week to academic pursuits. By contrast, students spent 51 percent of their time — or 85 hours a week — socializing or in extracurricular activities.

Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/01/18/1 ... z1JWeNxfsi" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

'Nuff said.

[WildBill]

Combining the hours spent studying and in class, students devoted less than a fifth of their time each week to academic pursuits. By contrast, students spent 51 percent of their time — or 85 hours a week — socializing or in extracurricular activities.

Now they call them Universities. They used to called "party schools".