May 9, 2008...1:00 pm
Louisiana HB 199
I had been meaning to post about HB 199. Then this e-mail was forwarded to me, so am posting a version of it. A colleague comments that student opposition to this bill is very strong, and that this point may help convince legislators to oppose the measure.
House Bill 199 of the current legislative session would allow persons holding a permit to carry a concealed handgun to carry that handgun on college campuses. It revokes the authority of college presidents to impose other rules regarding this matter. In spite of opposing testimony by the college presidents, the Commissioner of Higher Education, and the university police departments, the bill was passed by the House Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice by a 11-3 vote. It has been reported to the full House and there may be a vote as early as Monday, May 12.
This bill imagines the Gary Cooper figure rising and protecting us from the deranged student attacking our class room. The odds of a tragic incident involving permitted guns far outweighs those of one involving a crazed attacker. Please oppose this bill and contact members of the House and express your opinion. A phone call is best. If you write or send an e-mail be sure to use your own stationery or personal e-mail address. Please do this before Monday.
Axé.
8 Comments
May 9, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Someone else said their students have mixed reactions to the bill.
People need to realize that most shootings are not planned but are crimes of more immediate passion. Guns have to be available for these types of shootings to occur.
Someone else said it will probably take several shootings on campuses in LA as a result of this law until the legislators or courts suspend it.
I hope no one is killed although it’s likely that they will be.
May 11, 2008 at 11:27 pm
The mailing lists are buzzing about this and there are faculty who heavily favor the bill (although most do not).
May 12, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Today the bill was to have been voted upon but its proponent pulled it due to heavy opposition including a demonstration and an editorial in the Times-Picayune by the state commissioner of higher education. LSU coaches and directors also oppose the bill. See The Advocate / WBRZ:
http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/18877054.html
Wooten (the proponent) says he is going to do more work on it due to ‘perception problems’ and call for the vote in two weeks. Keep watching!
May 13, 2008 at 5:23 am
on another topic, here is an interesting aca-demonic article
May 13, 2008 at 8:30 am
Academonic, I like that word. And need to study that piece - !
May 13, 2008 at 11:59 am
Oh yeah, and see my latest entry on my site. Although very brief, you may be able to get a very general gist of what I’m talking about since it relates to some things we’ve been talking about here. I’m at last starting to find out the source of what I have always found to be inimical in this culture (compared to my culture of origin). I am starting to see how empty formalist ideas about equality twists things. There is a subtle movement by which all of life’s content is reduced to nothing (and as an aside, I think this is why abusers find it easy to abuse, under a system of reified consciousness - their abuse is “just a good” as anybody else’s good behaviour; it’s just a mild variation from the norm if it is perceived at all. This is how formal equality as a reified category messes with the mind. How can I be abused by someone formally EQUAL to me??! — that would be a logical contradiction, under reified terms. But this is also one of the reasons why mental processes conditioned by bourgeois society are uppity: The citoyens are so full of wallowing in bourgeois Idealism that they are generally unable to see the contradictions at an empirical level. They cannot.)
May 13, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Great comment, and yes - I’ve already glimpsed the entry you mention, earlier this morning, meant to mention that it is *precisely* germane to this thread - although I need to study it further (as well as the Larval Subjects post) - maybe tonight.
May 19, 2008 at 5:18 pm
I must respectfully disagree with your take on this bill.
http://www.concealedcampus.org/press_hb199.htm
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