Activists possum a ride on VA Tech tragedy

Posted By Uncle Jimbo

As all the usual suspects on both sides of our ongoing arguments about guns claim VA Tech validates either gun control or concealed carry, we even get the race-baiting of the victim classes trying to possum a ride on the issue. Let's dispense with the racism angle first.

Said Virginia Tech student Lyu Boaz, a Korean-American. “After 9/11, a lot of Arabs were attacked for that reason.”

    Asian-American students at Virginia Tech reacted to news about the gunman’s identity with shock and a measure of anxiety about a possible backlash against them....

No a lot of Arabs weren't attacked after 9/11, almost none were. Actually if anyone had a beef it was Sikhs, a few of whom got attacked because of their head wraps. But despite the caterwauling of CAIR, Arabs in America may have gotten some dirty looks but they fared much better than Americans in Arab countries have.

That is one of the biggest problems with our academic culture. It is based largely on identity politics and protected victim classes. That includes basically everyone but white males, who are expected to be repentant for sins they had no connections to, but the rest are simply not to be held responsible for their actions, achievements or lack thereof. Michelle Malkin, who has had her victim class card pulled for heresy, ties that theme together with the attendant lack of responsibility for their own safety or well-being.

There's no polite way or time to say it: American college and universities have become coddle industries. Big Nanny administrators oversee speech codes, segregated dorms, politically correct academic departments, and designated "safe spaces" to protect students selectively from hurtful (conservative) opinions—while allowing mob rule for approved leftist positions (textbook case: Columbia University's anti-Minuteman Project protesters).

State legislators in Virginia had attempted to pass a bill that would have eased handgun restrictions on college campuses. Opposed by outspoken, anti-gun activists and Virginia Tech administrators, that bill failed.

Late last summer, a shooting near campus prompted students to clamor again for loosening campus rules against armed self-defense. Virginia Tech officials turned up their noses. In response to student Bradford Wiles's campus newspaper op-ed piece in support of concealed carry on campus, Virginia Tech associate vice president Larry Hincker scoffed:

"[I]t is absolutely mind-boggling to see the opinions of Bradford Wiles…The editors of this page must have printed this commentary if for no other reason than malicious compliance. Surely, they scratched their heads saying, 'I can't believe he really wants to say that.' Wiles tells us that he didn't feel safe with the hundreds of highly trained officers armed with high powered rifles encircling the building and protecting him. He even implies that he needed his sidearm to protect himself."

The nerve!

Our top anal-yst Grim has taken on the challenge of wargaming this scenario to see what effect an armed student or teacher may have had, or what other active options the trapped students could have employed. As usual his work is well worth reading.

I would add that the number of people willing to go to the trouble of obtaining training and a license, and who will then actively carry a concealed weapon is very small. This makes it unlikely that a weapon would serendipitously be near and in the hands of someone who could use it effectively. HOWEVER, that small possibility is preferable to lying on your back as the lifeblood streams from your body saying "Man I wish I'd a brought my pistol", and the students and faculty of VA Tech were told they had no right to self defense.

I have often carried legally and back before 9/11 even on planes. There have also been many situations where I carried illegally as I reserve my right to self defense above the right of any government to disarm me. Police do not stop crimes from happening (reliably), they react after they have. I will not be killed or watch others die because some thin-lipped, milquetoast, cream in the coffee, gutless bureaucrat thinks guns are scary. Hell yeah they are, much more so when firing at your disarmed ass.

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Activists possum a ride on VA Tech tragedy

As all the usual suspects on both sides of our ongoing arguments about guns claim VA Tech validates either gun control or concealed carry, we even get the race-baiting of the victim classes trying to possum a ride on the issue. Let's dispense with the racism angle first.

Said Virginia Tech student Lyu Boaz, a Korean-American. “After 9/11, a lot of Arabs were attacked for that reason.”

    Asian-American students at Virginia Tech reacted to news about the gunman’s identity with shock and a measure of anxiety about a possible backlash against them....

No a lot of Arabs weren't attacked after 9/11, almost none were. Actually if anyone had a beef it was Sikhs, a few of whom got attacked because of their head wraps. But despite the caterwauling of CAIR, Arabs in America may have gotten some dirty looks but they fared much better than Americans in Arab countries have.

That is one of the biggest problems with our academic culture. It is based largely on identity politics and protected victim classes. That includes basically everyone but white males, who are expected to be repentant for sins they had no connections to, but the rest are simply not to be held responsible for their actions, achievements or lack thereof. Michelle Malkin, who has had her victim class card pulled for heresy, ties that theme together with the attendant lack of responsibility for their own safety or well-being.

There's no polite way or time to say it: American college and universities have become coddle industries. Big Nanny administrators oversee speech codes, segregated dorms, politically correct academic departments, and designated "safe spaces" to protect students selectively from hurtful (conservative) opinions—while allowing mob rule for approved leftist positions (textbook case: Columbia University's anti-Minuteman Project protesters).

State legislators in Virginia had attempted to pass a bill that would have eased handgun restrictions on college campuses. Opposed by outspoken, anti-gun activists and Virginia Tech administrators, that bill failed.

Late last summer, a shooting near campus prompted students to clamor again for loosening campus rules against armed self-defense. Virginia Tech officials turned up their noses. In response to student Bradford Wiles's campus newspaper op-ed piece in support of concealed carry on campus, Virginia Tech associate vice president Larry Hincker scoffed:

"[I]t is absolutely mind-boggling to see the opinions of Bradford Wiles…The editors of this page must have printed this commentary if for no other reason than malicious compliance. Surely, they scratched their heads saying, 'I can't believe he really wants to say that.' Wiles tells us that he didn't feel safe with the hundreds of highly trained officers armed with high powered rifles encircling the building and protecting him. He even implies that he needed his sidearm to protect himself."

The nerve!

Our top anal-yst Grim has taken on the challenge of wargaming this scenario to see what effect an armed student or teacher may have had, or what other active options the trapped students could have employed. As usual his work is well worth reading.

I would add that the number of people willing to go to the trouble of obtaining training and a license, and who will then actively carry a concealed weapon is very small. This makes it unlikely that a weapon would serendipitously be near and in the hands of someone who could use it effectively. HOWEVER, that small possibility is preferable to lying on your back as the lifeblood streams from your body saying "Man I wish I'd a brought my pistol", and the students and faculty of VA Tech were told they had no right to self defense.

I have often carried legally and back before 9/11 even on planes. There have also been many situations where I carried illegally as I reserve my right to self defense above the right of any government to disarm me. Police do not stop crimes from happening (reliably), they react after they have. I will not be killed or watch others die because some thin-lipped, milquetoast, cream in the coffee, gutless bureaucrat thinks guns are scary. Hell yeah they are, much more so when firing at your disarmed ass.

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