Liberal Academics Panic as Idaho Campus Gun Law Goes Into Effect
When something like Obamacare is passed, it’s the law of the land but when campus open carry laws pass, liberals plot and scheme to undo them.
Charlie Tyson writes at Inside Higher Ed.
Outgunned, for Now
“When may I shoot a student?” A Boise State professor’s satirical question, posed in the pages of The New York Times in February, brought national attention to a bill – then under consideration in the Idaho Legislature — allowing guns on the state’s college and university campuses. The bill revoked the authority of college and university governing boards to regulate or prohibit “the otherwise lawful possession, carrying or transporting of firearms or ammunition.” Idaho Governor Butch Otter signed the bill into law March 12, roughly two weeks after Greg Hampikian’s piece appeared. The law goes into effect July 1.
The bill passed over cries of opposition from many academics, including every public-college president in the state. But some Idaho faculty, although outgunned at the legislature, continue to combat the law, even now that the legislative session has ended. Last week the University of Idaho faculty union, a branch of the American Federation of Teachers, unveiled a legal memo suggesting various ways faculty could respond to the weapons bill. The memo proposes strategies that range from the structural (filing a suit arguing the law is unconstitutional) to the satirical (having professors carry guns into classrooms themselves “to highlight the absurdity” of the new law).
Benjamin Onosko, the attorney who authored the memo for the faculty union, wrote in the document that “the most effective way” to combat the law is a strategy that, for now, seems closed off: having the university challenge the law by arguing the statute violates Idaho’s constitution.
Idaho faculty weigh options as campus gun law goes into effect (Inside Higher Ed | News)
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Weenie progressive college profs are more likely to shoot themselves in the foot and they know it. Progressives think that to allow guns on campus is an admission that none of us are safe and they will not admit that. The anti-gun group will not face the fact that self-defense is a personal responsibility. Expecting the gov to create a safe, warm and fuzzy environment is a result of the scared, empty headed thinking of wimps. If one’s own life is not worth defending, then don’t expect others to do it for that person.
“to the satirical (having professors carry guns into classrooms themselves “to highlight the absurdity” of the new law)”
Fantasy land inhabitants.
The memo proposes strategies that range from the structural (filing a suit arguing the law is unconstitutional) to the satirical (having professors carry guns into classrooms themselves “to highlight the absurdity” of the new law).
Pretty weak stuff.
They have to huff & puff or they’ll lose their Party membership cards. But if just another quixotic lawsuit or some theatrical grandstanding is all they’ve got, I don’t see any big problem.
Sue on the grounds the law violates Idaho’s constitution? Rofl! What morons these academics be! Have they not heard of the US Constitution?
The linked article goes into that a bit.
Apparently the state constitution grants the school
“all the powers necessary to accomplish the objects and perform the duties” of the university, “the custody of books, records, buildings and other property of said University,” and the ability to “prescribe rules and regulations for the management of the libraries, cabinet, museum, laboratories and all other property of the University.”
The lawyer who drafted the memo then makes the bizarre claim that power to regulate the physical plant somehow implies power to limit the civil rights of people on the grounds.
The state rescinded that.
Specifically as applied to guns, I mean.