So you’re probably all finding out about the Northern Illinois University shooter about now. (The drivel on the two cable news channels is awful, btw). My only comment is, the Idaho legislature this week punted on a chance to pass a law that might have allowed anyone with a valid carry license to carry on campus after notifying University officials. And not just punted, but caved to pressure from the Governor and the big school administrators to kill it. I saw a student on the news who was one of the ones testifying at the hearing on the bill, and his point was that the students are sitting ducks, waiting to die, in just such a situation. He didn’t get a very serious reception from what I could tell. Too bad. He is right. I wonder if anyone will hear him now?
We can pass a bill making dog-fighting a felony, but we can’t pass a law allowing students and teachers to defend themselves from deranged nutbags… pretty sad. But try to get a college campus provision into a bill designed to keep cities and counties from restricting legal and licensed carry and “Oh no, we can’t have that”.
BOISE, Idaho — State lawmakers have agreed to rework legislation that would have restricted cities and counties from passing local rules regulating firearms in public places.
The bill has already undergone a major makeover since being introduced last week.
Sen. Curt McKenzie, R-Boise, acknowledged Wednesday he agreed to drop a provision stripping the authority college presidents have in keeping universities and community college campuses free of concealed weapons. McKenzie said he agreed to the changes after getting pressure from Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter and university administrators.
Butch, in my opinion, you’re wrong on this one. The kids are right. They’re sitting ducks, and you can pass as many laws as you want making college campuses “gun free zones”, and you aren’t saving ONE SINGLE LIFE! Graphic proof again today, film at eleven. How many more are you willing to give up, before you admit that people have a right to defend themselves because YOU CAN’T!
…but you already knew that. The man who gave us chocolate city, and the ever memorable Katrina gun confiscations, now shows us just how clueless he really is. And the cop there should have applied the butt of his to Nagin’s noggin. This pic, and others from the same photo op, are starting to pop up around the net. But will we see them on the evening news, or hear endless jokes from the MSM, a la Dick Cheney hunting jokes? Nope. 
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