UC Boulder has established separate living quarters for those who wish to utilize their second amendment rights. So far, there's been no takers. I sure as hell wouldn't move into one. Then again, I just wouldn't live in a dorm so that problems been nipped already.
There's two things that I see wrong in this article. First, it's idiocy to segregate the students that want to have the ability to defend themselves. Ignoring the argument that armed students help keep the unarmed students safe (which is huge), the idea that it's a valid policy to segregate students for practicing their constitutionally protected rights is absurd.
Oh, you want to vote? Move down the street, we'll need to see five forms of ID first. You want freedom of speech? Better move into the Thomas Paine dorm down the road, just don't talk in the public areas.
Universities used to be bastions of freedom, with students fighting the hardest of all for their rights not to be trampled on. Nowadays, students can't protest, can't have unplanned speechs, can't defend themselves, are exposed to unlawful search and seizure by campus authorities, and get ostracized for their political views constantly. What's happening at UC Boulder is hardly a local issue.. such abuse of civil rights is systemic across the board at Universities around the nation. And it's a damned shame.
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