Yes, Indecency.
In previous editions of Good For The Country, I mentioned how wrongful death lawsuits may play an important role in reclaiming the sovereignty of the adult students murdered on a campus which had no power to stop a shooter and which frustrates the target from acting in self-defense. Yes, adult students submit to the rules of the campus or go elsewhere, I know, but this involves a reasonable expectation of a high degree of trust that the administration not only has student interests at heart, but also knows what in the world they are doing.
When the students know more about the solution than the administration does, and then an administration won’t be reasonable, the entire United States has a problem.
In the case of guns - or, more specifically of safety or of citizen authority since the nation’s inception – many, many Non-Gun Owners don’t know what they are doing. For Educators, they have forgotten what citizen authority is viz-a-viz themselves as public servants.
When any appointed or elected official becomes stubborn and will not hear the obvious because they sense it will undermine one’s authority – even a little – one has stopped acting in the interests of the people he/she is sworn to serve and begins to vex them. In the case of Mike Nifong, many were vexed. In the case of campus shootings, many are killed for such very similar vexings. The cost of this luxury of hiding the ball is far too high, and there is positively no difference between school officials hiding the ball of citizen authority and state law and Mike Nifong’s hiding the ball.
This sort of vexing of the people officials are to serve – this bad faith hiding the ball – is on the increase. Official stubbornness and defiance of law is becoming indecent now. Nifong is one example, but when the law is to be shown administrators – adult citizen authority, for instance or state law – the school policy of banning personal weapons is impeached. or should be, one would think. Enter the slippery argument of going to court or other corner of bureaucracy for a ‘ruling’ on the question the administration should already know.
This is the indecency. Pretending that one is dealing in good faith with students by seeking a ruling. This is as disingenuous as asking for another toss of the coin, then best three out of five, then best seven out of ten.
A school has no such authority to waive a civil right, especially one which acts in the public interest when the ban on personal weapons which is affirmed by state law operates against the public interest. Consulting others for a ruling is a stalling tactic. It is bad faith.
Please see the White Paper issued by the Good For The Country Foundation at www.GoodForTheCountry.org/whitepaper.html for an explication for non-gun owners. The Foundation does not tout Guns, but relates the purpose of citizen authority to any era, any age, especially now. The Founders did not need to foresee high-tech weapons in the new nation – what they feared much more was the resurgence of abuse of due process, abuse of power. Banning self-defense to the detriment of nearly every student body nationwide is adverse to the United States.
In the final analysis, a campus Administration is an aggregate of public servants, and does not get the last word: the people get the last word, and the people spoke three centuries ago. Called ratification, it is not something subject to majority rule or sway in 2007 – It is inalienable. They’ve already had this debate. No need to seek a ruling from another bureaucracy.
Meanwhile, armed slef-defense is proven to be a great Safeguard of our Liberty. It’s a Safeguard for students. It is good for the country.
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John Longenecker is CEO of the Good For The Country Foundation, a 501(c)(3) education organization. See www.GoodForTheCountry.org/agenda.html
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