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onwyrdshammer ([info]onwyrdshammer) wrote,
@ 2008-03-14 12:37:00

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guns and schools
from cnn
Oklahoma is among the first states to be cognizant of the fact that college students are supposed to be considered adults, and that when unsecured areas, that their personal safety is their own responsibility. Such responsibilities have no meaning without the rights to back them up.

The article's second sentance?
The measure was approved 65-36, despite opponents who said it made no sense following shootings at schools across the country.


it is the responsibility of news organizations to be informative, but I think the phrasing demonstrated the bias of the author. Opponents doesn't enumerate who particularly well, the only quote from the opponents is

"This has to be the craziest thing I have ever seen," said Rep. Ray McCarter, D-Marlow, one of several lawmakers who said the measure is opposed by college administrators.


well, from a bit of the old internet research, it would appear that Ray McCarter is a former teacher/administrator himself, and administrators of any stripe are usually against anything "disruptive" or "empowering." The anti-gun crowd of course thinks that the fewer guns there are, the safer we are. That is not actually accurate.

Opponents is a broad term, but some opinion more or less exists to be mocked. So the question becomes. Who opposes. It matters a great deal as to how much I value their opinion.


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