I usually dont like hearing celebrities/sports stars opinion on anything not related to their chosen field. But CLM is technically a teacher at the university and would know about the daily college environment. LINK What say you?
When I was in school, I always had a couple of shotguns in my dorm or frat house room. I hunted whenever I got the chance. People never gave me a second glance when I was brining a shotgun (in it's case) from my vehicle to my room. Interesting how a few bad apples have made people scared and are ruining things for all.
Today the paper reported that at least 42 guns have been found on East Baton Rouge Parish public school campuses during the past five years, according to statistics from the parish’s school drug task force and school system. There was one shooting incident. These are high schools! There are 33,000 people on campus and panic is a worrisome issue after the campus shootings lately. We don't need fist fights, purse snatchings, and fender benders turning into shooting incidents. Campus needs to stay gun-free. We don't need janitors packing iron and we don't need hot-headed, sometime drunken partying teenagers armed. it's tough luck for hunters living in the dorms, but they'll just have to leave the arsenal at dad's or a hunting buddy's house for a couple of years. The chances of a lunatic walking into a classroom and shooting people are less than winning the Powerball. It's arguable whether armed students could stop it anyway. That's not the kind of crime that we have at LSU. What we have here is daily petty thefts from cars and unlocked offices, traffic violations, occasional muggings, and on rare occasions, a rape. Almost all of these are unarmed crimes by off-campus individuals. If students start packing, so will the petty criminals that we deal with every day and it just escalates everything. We have good police protection here between the University police and the city police. They can handle things, we don't need vigilantes.
when i was a RA in Broussard Hall (the athletic dorm at the time) i had a fball player ask me to keep his backpack for him behind the desk for a little while. i said ok. he put it down on the desk with a "THUD". yep, a .38 was in it. what an idiot---curley wasnt pleased.
