More campus killings

Another report of increased violence against students and the call goes out for more security phones and security systems. The goal, at best, will be to alert student as the violence continues unchecked. Odd how violence has risen even though cell phones are in about every students ear half the day. I doubt criminals fear the phone.

I received an E mail with a good quote on it the other day. It said:

"I Carry a gun because carrying a police officer around all day is tiring."

Truer words are seldom spoken. Although security guards are good and I support the steps to help with these issues. A guard can not be everywhere or appear in a second. This Andy Sher Chattanooga Times Free Press article confirms that many Tennessee state campuses do not even allow their security staff to carry guns.

I wonder what they would do if called upon in a Va. Tech type situation.

Would they yell:

"Stop shooting! or you will force me to yell "stop shooting!" again."

I wonder what would be the success rate for that disarmament technique. I imagine it would work about as well as it did for students at N.I.U.

Their comes a point where people have to take responsibility for their own safety. A phone on a pole and an unarmed guard, who knows how far or how long away, won't cut the mustard.

Many campus officials say that allowing trained, checked and permitted people to have the right to defend themselves will create more violence. Odd how they can not quote a single statistic to back up their claims.

I doubt a single student or teacher in one of those classrooms at Va. Tech. when Chow started shooting said " Boy, I sure am glad the state made this a gun free zone so I can't defend myself, otherwise their might be violence."