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April 23, 2007

Steyn on "Gun Free" Zones

The "gun-free zone" fraud isn't just about banning firearms or even a symptom of academia's distaste for an entire sensibility of which the Second Amendment is part and parcel but part of a deeper reluctance of critical segments of our culture to engage with reality. Michelle Malkin wrote a column a few days ago connecting the prohibition against physical self-defense with "the erosion of intellectual self-defense," and the retreat of college campuses into a smothering security blanket of speech codes and "safe spaces" that's the very opposite of the principles of honest enquiry and vigorous debate on which university life was founded. And so we "fear guns," and "verbal violence," and excessively realistic swashbuckling in the varsity production of ''The Three Musketeers.'' What kind of functioning society can emerge from such a cocoon?

Full article here. (h/t : Glenn)

Cross-posted at The Arsenal.

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1 There's never a gun free zone when Greyrooster's is present.

Posted by: greyrooster at April 23, 2007 06:39 AM (Ri8KN)

Thats a big 10-4.

Posted by: Jack's Smirking Revenge at April 23, 2007 08:47 AM (2p893)

3 Duh... the answer to gun violence is more gun violence!

Jesus panty sniffing Christ... no wonder you retards have lost yet another war. You don't actually understand how reality works do you?

Fuck... I bet most of you can barely convince yourselfs that if you flap your arms hard enough you can fly.

Posted by: John at April 23, 2007 09:52 AM (S3Rzh)

4 Wasnt it our former dicatator BILL CLINTON who supported these GUN FREE ZONES? HEY ALL THOSE WHO LOST RELITIVES AT VT SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO SUE VT FOR PROHIBBITING GUNS IT WAS THE GUN FREE SCHOOL ZONES WHEICH CUASED THIS

Posted by: sandpiper at April 23, 2007 10:04 AM (nzpL/)

5 Duh... the answer to gun violence is more gun violence!

Well, it's certainly not "gun free" (wahaha!) zones, is it.

Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at April 23, 2007 10:16 AM (8e/V4)

John, you really are an idiot beyond comprehension. The "gun-free zone" at VT worked great, right? Any better suggestions? Astonish me shitface.

Posted by: Jack's Smirking Revenge at April 23, 2007 10:25 AM (2p893)

7 John says we have lost the war ... " And, like a loopy medieval sultan, they thought that simply declaring it to be so would make it so." And please notice, as an example of the critical thinking of the 'left', how he doesn't really read with understanding, can't really argue with facts and information, and lavishes insults due to an apparent lack of self esteem. His comments seem almost like the desperate and futile efforts of someone who is indeed 'losing the war'. In his case, a personal war. The war between his brittle, and artificial leftist world view, and factual reality. He is starting to parody himself, and I'm starting to find him funny

USA, all the way!

Posted by: Michael Weaver at April 23, 2007 11:26 AM (2OHpj)

8 Canadians, I feel for you! We have leftard idiots down here as well. I don't hold John against you. I couldn't! Not while Michael Moore still gets away with calling himself American.
USA, all the way!

Posted by: Michael Weaver at April 23, 2007 11:29 AM (2OHpj)

9 Yeah... an armed population is doing wonders in keeping gun violence at bay in Iraq.

81 Americans die by the gun every day dummies. That's something like 29k people every year. Fuck... you should stop worrying about those "crazy Mooslims", and start worrying about each other.

USA all the way!!!!!!!

Posted by: John at April 23, 2007 12:19 PM (qiTAx)

10 Gun violence is killing people in Iraq? I thought it was suicide bombs.

Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at April 23, 2007 12:23 PM (8e/V4)

11 John, good job with the bullshit numbers. Try removing the number of gun deaths which are either suicides or justifiable self-defense from your tally. Then remove the number of gun deaths where the perp didn't legally have the gun (either because of city bans or because the perp was barred from gun ownership himself).

Guess how many gun deaths are left at that point?

Posted by: wooga at April 23, 2007 02:46 PM (t9sT5)

12 I hold John against Canada. The dipshits should send him packing.

Posted by: greyrooster at April 23, 2007 07:59 PM (UagOl)

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