Dumb letter of the day:

Letter: Armed Campus a Censored Campus

I am very distressed by the passage of Idaho’s “guns on campus” law. This legislation was heavily promoted by the NRA, I believe, to promote more gun sales although, of course, they don’t say that.

I am well into my senior years, and one of my many jobs was as a college teacher. I can recall one session that became quite heated and emotional. I can only imagine that if I had thought that those students were armed, I would have avoided that issue and anything else controversial.

All Idaho college administrators and all the college teachers I’ve spoken with (I’m a senior student) are and have been opposed to this law. There’s been much protest for many weeks. One person feared that out-of-state students, and their welcome fees, would avoid our “gun-campuses” in future. But the law has been shoved down the throat of our higher education. Is this the Idaho way? I guess it is.

MONICA TOGNETTI

Twin Falls
Source: http://magicvalley.com/news/opinion/mailbag/letter-armed-campus-a-censored-campus/article_e4571ad8-af19-11e3-905e-0019bb2963f4.html?comment_form=true

 

1. The NRA doesn’t sell guns, they promote the 2nd Amendment

2. Cops and armed civilians often deal with heated situations, they rarely result in shootouts

3. There was a time almost everyone in the South supported segregation, they were wrong, and so are you

4. Out-of-state students who hate guns are not going to study anywhere near Idaho. I know liberals, one of them told me he would never work in Dallas, which is ironic since that city has plenty of his kind

Here’s another response to her diatribe:

Dick F – 18 minutes ago

The law has been shoved down the throats of colleges? For years, colleges have shoved our constitutional rights elsewhere. “…shall not be infringed” has certainly been infringed. Our colleges belong to the people of Idaho and we demand that our constitutional rights be protected. The courts have ruled that the 2d Amendment gives the individual the right to be armed for protection and it’s time that colleges be prohibited from denying our rights to do so.

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Gregory Smith