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I prefer to be kind, and assume your clueless.
Posted by Steven E]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:11:31 -0600 Arkansas Times
The ASG does, by and large, represent the interests of the largely conservative student body. I don't have a sense of whether the majority of UA students supports GOP politics but I wouldn't be surprised if there were more student votes for Romney than there were for Obama, although not by many. What's changed since the 1970s, demographically speaking, is the large influx of Texas students -- mostly wealthy kids who couldn't get into UT. This is perhaps the largest pool of white frat boys and sorority sisters, many of whom are in the Walton School of Business, looking to get rich someday (if they aren't already).

These kids are likely to support an "open carry" or similar law if only because their daddies and their political idols are big NRA supporters.
Posted by GrizLee "Problem" Bear]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:44:26 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by mag]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:21:37 -0600 Arkansas Times
You have critters like Dohbert who have some nice anecdotes about wild college times. It happens, every once in a GREAT while. Yet, how many assaults upon young women happen on campus? When I lived in Kali, there was a serious problem at USC, which is in a VERY bad neighborhood, and Glendale Community college, which was an afluent neighborhood. Not much I could do about USC, though I taught my girlfriend how to defend herself. I did start a class at the Community College which had some interesting results. Some of the women were skitish about doing certain things to a human body, even to defend themselves. Most of these women, like some of the parents here, like mag, were clueless about the consequences of surviving a violent sexual assault.

I educated them. I introduced them to women who had been raped, one had been stabbed and left for dead by her college boyfriend. Listening to the experiences of those women woke those girls up from their stupor. I taught them to do what needed doing to remain alive, to live free from fear. They no longer got squeemish when I taught them how to stab and turn and aim for the femoral, or gouge eyes, or break knees. These women did it with resolve. They became enlightened and empowered.

I empowered these women by showing how they could take charge, be aware, be free from fear. They knew they could live one of two ways, clueless, or in fear. I showed them another way. Many of them got into firearms.

Now, we have a group of people who voted to take the power away from women. They removed a personal choice for a women more basic than abortion, the right to choose if you want to defend yourself.

Yup, oh so enlightened.
Posted by Steven E]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:16:12 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by mag]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:44:56 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by GrizLee "Problem" Bear]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:44:33 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by MysteryShopper]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:04:34 -0600 Arkansas Times
Advise students they must all agree on booze OR guns on campus.

Can't have both for obvious reasons.

I strongly suspect they would overwelmingly choose booze.

One can sit in their room and use booze morning noon or night but guns, not so much.
Posted by Citizen1]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:13:00 -0600 Arkansas Times
Early one Saturday moring. Drunk with a hangover is asleep. Student laborer is mopping the hallway in the dorm and the wheel on the mop bucket/wringer is squeaking. Annoys the hungover drunk and he shoots the bucket.

Let your imagination wander and see where these two scenarios could lead.
Posted by Dobert]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:46:01 -0600 Arkansas Times
I ask you: How many mass murders of college students occur in freedom-hating France every year? That's right. Um hmm.
Posted by I_AM_THE_NRA]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 07:43:40 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by couldn't be better]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 07:27:55 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by I_AM_THE_NRA]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 07:22:26 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by bugeyedlittlefreak]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 07:19:08 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by ironfortified]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 06:53:10 -0600 Arkansas Times