It’s sad how badly academia has reacted to the Orlando attack. Has anyone in higher ed gotten it right?

Campus Reform reports.

Boston U. Dean blames Orlando massacre on hate speech

Boston University has launched a social media crusade against gun violence, condemning the apparent pandemic as a “public health issue.”

The social media campaign, known as “#Enough,” has garnered the support of school administrators, including School of Public Health Dean Sandro Galea, who blamed the recent Orlando massacre on a “toxic combination of hate language and widespread availability of guns” and declared that “guns facilitate hate.”

“We would like to have an open conversation on gun violence, one that says that we should be looking for a solution and not keep saying, ‘we can’t do anything about this,’” Galea explained.

Galea is no stranger to the gun control debate, though, previously calling for “progressive approaches” to the issue in a post on the university’s website.

“One remains hopeful that recent growing awareness of the issue, including presidential candidates with progressive approaches to the problem, will eventually make a dent in this preventable epidemic,” he wrote at the time, linking to an article on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

More recently, in a video for the #Enough campaign, Galea presented the popular gun control argument that fewer guns would result in less violence.

“Research done [at BU’s] School of Public Health shows that more guns are associated with more deaths and more injuries from guns,” he declared, calling for “universal checks,” “ammunition checks,” and other “common sense measures.”