Letter: Concealed carry unnecessary

This one takes the cake:

Letter to the editor
Tuesday, February 12; 12:00 AM

A recent letter to the editor said that “Taking away someone’s gun because they might shoot someone is like cutting out their tongue because they might yell ‘fire!’ in a crowded theater.”

This is a fairly apt analogy, but for one thing, a tongue can be used for many other things besides yelling “fire” — eating, for instance, or reciting poetry or yelling to stop a car from striking a pedestrian.

However, to borrow a phrase from author Gary Paulson, the sole use of a gun is to punch holes in other human beings. There is no need for anybody to secretly carry around campus devices designed expressly to maim and kill. If handguns are allowed on campus, then we may as well allow people to bring in bombs, nerve gas and rabid attack dogs. No matter how “safe” that vial of drug-resistant anthrax makes me feel, it still has no place in the classroom. The same is true for firearms.

Rachel Taylor
sophomore, mathematics

Legally carrying a legal gun for legal self defense is the same as carrying “bombs, nerve gas and rabid attack dogs” or a “vial of drug-resistant anthrax”?

First of all, I believe that all four of those items are illegal in virtually all settings. Second of all, all four of them have very little, if any, defensive value.

Finally, ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?!? A college sophomore wrote that? No way.

This is the sort of thing I will not be able to resist pointing out in the future.

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