University Diaries » ‘When it was pointed out that Wyoming consistently has one of the nation’s highest yearly suicide rates, [a conceal carry advocate] said the campuses that allow guns haven’t seen increased suicide rates either. He got some pushback from the audience on that point, with some citing a 2017 study that shows when firearms are allowed on campus, the number of suicides by firearms increases.’

And the guy in favor of conceal carry on the U Wyoming campus then cited what study in response to the pushback? What study told him that more guns, in any setting, do not in fact increase suicide rates? UD would dearly love to see it.

UW alumnus Sandy Rees received a less [than] enthusiastic response when she spoke out in favor of allowing concealed carry firearms on campus.

“You need to follow the statutes and the laws, not squishy feelings and surveys,” she said.

Okay, first about that favorite word of gunnies, ‘squishy.’ UD’s been reading about this subject forever, and she’s noticed that gunnies LOVE this word, which designates people who… uh… read surveys?

Yeah cuz the problem there is that when you survey the UW community a vast majority opposes campus conceal carry. So don’t get all squishy on me and listen to what people say when you ask them!

And then of course mainly squishy designates anyone who goes all damp and feely after suicides and massacres and for fuck sake man MAN UP. Remember what State Sen. Dahm said – EVERYONE DIES THAT’S LIFE. Maybe you’re five and you die clinging in perplexity and terror to your elementary school teacher as a man’s bullets tear through your organs. Tough titties. Saddle up, cowboy, life’s a bumpy ride, and those “events” are just staged to make us go squishy.

But UD – without getting too Freudian about it – thinks gunnies reach for squishy so often because the brain thousands of Wyomingites blow out of their heads is famously squishy. Any number of brain-based kids’ toys are called squishy.

For example. You can’t blame these folks for having ‘squishy’ on their minds. In their world, brains are always going squish squish squish.

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