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The University of Colorado, both at Colorado Springs and Boulder, are segregating their dorms.
Not by race, not even by gender, but by people who don’t feel complete without a firearm to make their weenus look bigger.
Yes, the University of Colorado is making kids with gun permits house themselves together in one spot so when they get drunk, stoned, or depressed, no innocent bystanders will be shot.
“The main dorms on the main campus will not allow any concealed-carry weapons,” CU-Boulder spokesman Bronson Hilliard said.
In addition, attendees at ticketed athletic and cultural events, such as football games and theater, on both campuses will not be permitted to bring their guns, officials said.
My theory is that this move will mean that college gun owners will get laid even less than the Dungeons and Dragons dorm. They will spend the weekends in the dorm, alone, playing with their … uh, guns.
Needless to say, the gun lobby does not like this. Putting them all in one dorm means that people in other dorms don’t feel the need to buy a gun to protect themselves from people with a gun, resulting in lower gun sales which is just totally unacceptable with all the well regulated militias in Colorado.
Kurt Mueller, director of strategy of Students for Concealed Carry, a national organization that advocates for legal concealed carry on college campuses, said the group has an issue with the CU change.
“We’re going to look into it further, but it’s not surprising that the campuses are trying to circumvent the Colorado Supreme Court ruling,” Mueller said.
No, Kurt, the ruling said that college kids can carry guns. It did not say that we had to like them. Honey, I’d rather skin skunks with a dull knife than let my daughter live next to some damn kid with a gun.
Thanks to Carl for the heads up.
I commend the school.
What about the right we should all have to expect not to be shot by an irresponsible gun owner? Especially, very young people away from home for often the first time, that have been known to drink a lot.
1Shows good sense in my opinion. I’m one of those liberals with a rifle in the closet. The ammo lives in the sewing room. Any damn fool who tries to break into my little section of the hollar will more than likely break his damn fool neck. I’m a pack rat. Fabric tubs, exercycle in the living room, rocker in front of the window. That sort of thing. I plan on clubbing the housebreaker with my cane as he’s sprawled on the floor.
Also there’s the fact that there are a very limited number of folks I trust to have a gun around me. I do not want a bunch of cowboy/Rambo/Roadwarrior/Patriots?? endangering my life cause they are deficient in hormones and brain cells.
Who, when, how and why to shoot are something that needs lots of training and a cool head and common sense.
Most folks only think they know that. I gotta friend who is a lifetime voting member of the NRA. Teaches hunter and gun safety. We were talking after the theater shooting, he said his first knee jerk reaction was to think things woulda been different if there had been armed citizens. Then, God love him (Yankee version, sincere, I really mean it like it sounds) he said that was the stupidest thing he’d thought of in years. A dark theater, gas/smoke of some kind, screaming panicked people running around. Yeah, that would have worked out good. And to top it off how the hell do you tell the good guys from the bad and the guy had body armor to boot.
2I wish I knew the answer. I wish somebody did.
I’m with Cheryl. I’m not afraid of criminals, I worry about the paranoid gun owner with hero deslusions.
I’m against concealed carry anyways. If someone thinks they’re trained to carry & use a weapon expertly enough to shoot at a criminal in a crowd, they should be required to open carry like cops.
Good on U of Colorado.
3@Lorraine and @Cheryl…… *like*.
I’m so stupid I think my “inalienable right to LIFE, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” trumps the right of mentally disturbed people to buy guns, get drunk or high, and shoot folks.
4Wait… WHAT?? Segregation was OK when it was skin color but now it’s not OK to segregate delusional gun owners?
Lindy, good for your friend to come to a logical conclusion. The two gun owning members of my immediate family came to that same conclusion, the younger being a trained Marine who served in “Mission Accomplished” Iraq.
5I think we should take this further and pass a national law that says that people who own guns are only allowed to shoot people who own guns. Won’t work, of course, but neither do the drug laws and the radical right is just crazy about them. They also think that passing laws taking away women’s rights is going to work and put women properly in their place. I suspect some of them don’t know any actual women.
Or we could designate some states as gunny and others as non-gunny. We seem to be close to that already.
6LynnN (-:
7When I look back to my days in college, those were some of the safest days of my life. Who would need a gun? And I know, there have been some shootings on college campuses over the years, but didn’t those incidents start with the students who had the guns?
8You check the news coming out of Colorado Springs or Pueblo, CO everyday and there is always something like this:
http://www.koaa.com/news/shooting-at-2-dog-tavern-leaves-one-dead/
They are doing their darndest to decrease the surplus population of Colorado … I’m kinda hoping they are all Republicans … but for sure they are all, or most all, drunken idiots and probably with a license to carry!
It is disgusting!!
9How about a free gun to every woman whose rights are being taken away?
10If the Second Amendment requires the CU campus to permit firearms then they should be allowed in the gallery of the Supreme Court.
11Sadly, this does not surprise me. What surprises me is that Texas didn’t think of it first.
12Peggy, they tried it at Texas A&M. Got shot down. Pardon the pun.
13My darling hubby used to play D and D at University of Colorado many moons ago and the fellas (and a few gals) he played with did just fine in the romantic department. A little role playing experience never hurts anyone.
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