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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:11 PM
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Wild Wild West College?
Has America gone mad!

MSNBC has been talking all morning about the idea of students being allowed to carry guns on campus.

They said a poll was posted on their website and I can't find it.

My head is still spinning from the thought of it but I believe they said that 37% of those polled said they approved of students carrying guns.

Please tell me I'm having a nightmare from the 24/7 coverage of the tragedy at VT.
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eFriendly Donating Member (260 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:14 PM
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1. Here's the link to the survey
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18174383/
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:16 PM
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2. Please vote and use the link above
Nightmare time!



Students should be allowed to carry concealed licensed weapons on campus.
54%

The massacre was an isolated incident. Banning guns on campus is still a good idea.
46%
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eFriendly Donating Member (260 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:20 PM
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6. The numbers are shocking!
I don't own guns - don't like them - but I may have to get one just to protect myself from all of the crazy gun-toting wackos out there. I cannot believe that people favor allowing students to carry concealed weapons on campus. If they do allow it, school shootings are going to skyrocket, IMO.
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:38 PM
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12. I recall being in college and girls crying because their boyfriends
started dating other girls on campus.

Wild, wild West coming up!
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JustABozoOnThisBus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:57 PM
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20. Never be shocked by online polls
They can be easily freeped, or DUed, the outcome as easily manipulated as American Idol.

Even a "real" poll can be wrong. A pollster can ask me anything, but he won't hear about any guns in my house, should any exist.
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aikoaiko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:17 PM
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3. Thanks for the link I voted for allowing legal concealed carry.
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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:18 PM
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Yep, give some drunken frat rats guns and ammo. Sounds like
a plan to me. I'm not saying they'd go on a rampage but I surely do believe that the accident rate would skyrocket.


Last summer, a Virginia Tech student wrote an editorial in the Roanoke Times saying he'd feel safer if students were allowed to carry guns on campus. What do you think? * 822 responses
Students should be allowed to carry concealed licensed weapons on campus.
56%
The massacre was an isolated incident. Banning guns on campus is still a good idea.
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:41 PM
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15. Yep, If it's OK for college kids it must be ok for my 88 year old Mom
Seems like Seniors need to protect themselves too.
:sarcasm:
College students do not need guns!
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Little Wing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:18 PM
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4. Clearly they've never seen "Taps"
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Squatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:21 PM
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7. Yeah, absurd Hollywood movies should serve as our moral compass
:eyes:
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Little Wing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:22 PM
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10. but
TOM CRUISE!
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:24 PM
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11. Actually
That film makes a very good point about the misguided belief that guns and soldiers are for killing:

Colonel Kirby - "You're not a soldier! I'm a soldier, with the career goal of all soldiers - staying alive in situations where it ain't all that easy to do! You're a death-lover. Some sorry son of a bitch has got you convinced that dying for a cause is oh, so romantic. Well, that's the worst kind of all the kinds of bullshit there is!"
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:42 PM
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16. As if...
the people calling for everybody to be armed aren't getting their ideas from absurd Hollywood action movies.
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Squatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:18 PM
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Question: When do 18-year olds become legal adults in the USA?
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:22 PM
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9. Overall
The age of majority is 18. It may vary from state to state.
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:41 PM
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14. the VA Tech shooter was 23
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aikoaiko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:18 PM
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5. Its now up to 56% for allowing concealed carry :-)


Last summer, a Virginia Tech student wrote an editorial in the Roanoke Times saying he'd feel safer if students were allowed to carry guns on campus. What do you think? * 822 responses

Students should be allowed to carry concealed licensed weapons on campus. 56%
The massacre was an isolated incident. Banning guns on campus is still a good idea. 44%
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:21 PM
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8. 37% of the population believe in the rapture too.
Edited on Wed Apr-18-07 12:25 PM by The_Casual_Observer
And support jr.

Those are more or less sub-humans, their opinion is noise.
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:40 PM
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13. great, this massacre would become a weekly occurance
Do people not fucking understand that????????
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:43 PM
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18. Guess they don't and for sure the Gun Stores don't understand


WWWU - Wild Wild West University
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-19-07 11:56 AM
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27. Ok, Ipod in ear,cell phone on waist and gun in my holster
ready for action.

:sarcasm:

Unreal!
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cgrindley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:43 PM
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17. I would absolutely carry on campus in a heartbeat
I've had death threats before. I'd love to carry on campus.
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JustABozoOnThisBus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:54 PM
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19. An interesting related poll would be ...
how many college students and/or faculty carry concealed guns now? Even though they're illegal on campus?
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 01:07 PM
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24. I was thinking about Columbine too~how many high school
students will feel that they should take their parent's guns and have a shoting good time?

Wild Wild West University = big trouble
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jcrew2001 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 01:04 PM
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21. Gun Makers need more money
That is why everyone needs a gun - we don't want the Gun makers to go bankrupt!!!

This is about GREED, not the 2nd amendment.
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 04:17 PM
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26. Greed and Empowerment of the Males in America nt
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 01:06 PM
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22. I do not believe that the students should be allowed to carry guns.
But after this shooting incident, the faculty should be armed.
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Mike Daniels Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 01:07 PM
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23. Let see....massive alcohol consumption, fights, emotional and physical stress
not to mention the occasional over-reaction to the odd instance of humiliation, heartbreak and sports rivalries.

Yep...sounds just like the perfect environment for young adults to be packing heat.
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 01:09 PM
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25. My sentiments exactly nt
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