Unarmed and vulnerable
Published Thursday, August 31, 2006
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News Fact FileBradford B. Wiles
Wiles, of New Castle, is a graduate student at Virginia Tech.
Upon exiting the classroom, we were met at the doors leading outside by two armor-clad policemen with fully automatic weapons, plus their side arms. Once outside, there were several more officers with either fully automatic rifles and pump shotguns, and policemen running down the street, pistols drawn.
It was at this time that I realized that I had no viable means of protecting myself.
Please realize that I am licensed to carry a concealed handgun
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I would also like to point out that when I mentioned to a professor that I would feel safer with my gun, this is what she said to me, "I would feel safer if you had your gun."
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Also, after the Virginia Tech Massacre a year later on April 16, 2007, Bradford Wiles, a graduate research assistant at the time, wrote an op-ed in the Virginia Tech school newspaper in support of concealed campus carry.