But the beauty of it is that she has both. Capulet, Montague, Smith, and Wesson – they’re all there now at the University of Kansas:
It’s [now legal] to walk down the middle of Kansas’ serene Midwestern campus with a hidden firearm. The carrier will need neither a permit nor training.
Coaches are being real wussy about it.
“It is a deal that I will be very adamant about in a way of banning [guns],” [a] Kansas third-year coach said. “I don’t want weapons around for our team. I know it’s a bad, bad deal for us. I understand the politics involved in it. I get that. But we’re talking about kids with lives and kids getting pissed with each other and kids that are highly competitive with each other. I fear what it could blow into.”
You can’t ban guns for the team, dummy! That would be illegal.
“It’s a little scary,” said Kansas State athletic director Gene Taylor.
Ooh, little Genie’s scared…
So is Oklahoma State’s coach:
“I was in college, been to a bunch of parties, been around a lot of football players,” the coach said. “Moderation that should have been part of what we did, wasn’t. It was college, we were dumb. If you throw a gun in the mix, it’s not good. You make poor decisions. When you have a gun there, you have a chance to make a decision you can never make up for.”
And back in Kansas:
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self called the law “unbelievable.” He did not elaborate.
Who needs to elaborate? You bring a bunch of big macho guys to a college campus. You pump them up to be even more macho, more violent, on the field. If you’re the University of Oregon, you put up signs in their cafeteria that say EAT YOUR ENEMIES. You and everyone else treat the guys like kings, giving them free muscle cars, willing “hostesses” among the coeds, tutors to write their papers for them. The local cops look the other way when the guys do bad stuff. The guys learn that they can get away with anything because they play the game really violently.
Doesn’t it stand to reason that giving them a concealed weapon can only be for the best?
July 9th, 2017 at 9:32PM
So the concealed weapon will be cheek to cheek with the concealed flask. What could possibly go wrong?
July 10th, 2017 at 10:10PM
Gun advocates probably respect coaches more than anyone else at universities, so maybe they are in the best position to be the voice of reason. Otoh, given the race angle of the NRA and big ticket sports, it will not surprise me if someone proposes that everyone on campus should carry *except* football and basketball players.