Letter mass-emailed to CU Boulder students regarding VA Tech

[dasmi]

My girlfriend is a student at CU Boulder. She forwarded me this letter, that a large chunk of the students on campus received in their email this morning. She believes everyone with a CU email address got it. Everyone she has asked received a copy.

I find the concern of the University for my safety to be superficial.

As all students have likely noticed, there are always a significant number of students on campus who
are "dressed inappropriately". So someone's manner of dress alone isn't likely to help foresee a
shooting. As for the comments regarding survival in a "gunfight", I think those recommendations are
inherently obvious. I do find the use of the word gunfight interesting.

The recent shooting at Virginia Tech and the shooting at Columbine were hardly "gunfights". No one
ever returned fire on the assailants. Any law abiding person would not have had the means to protect
themselves in either case, because the institution that cared so much for them prohibited them from
carrying any such means.

Virginia Tech, Columbine, the University of Colorado, and likely most such institutions prohibit their
students and employees from carrying any type of meaningful weapon which could prevent a mass
killing, a rape, or other heinous act.

Why do such organizations that extend the First Amendment on to their campuses to the point of
absurdity, prevent any such extension of the Second Amendment onto their campuses? Do they
assume that their subjects are too foolish to handle firearms, or that they are criminals? Why do they
desire to reduce their students to submitting to a rapist or running and hiding from a deranged gunman?
Are 32 dead unarmed people more becoming of a free people than just 1 shooter killed by his would
be victims?

How long will people be disposed to suffer these evil restrictions on our rights to self defense, and that
evil which flourishes because of them? How long will these conditions be sufferable? How many must
die before we realize that controlling what law abiding persons do has little effect on those with intent to
harm in place of respect for the law.

Those in charge of Virginia Tech should explain why they kept the victims and those around them from
bearing arms, which could have saved many lives. The University of Colorado should explain why it
sees fit to keeps its students and employees defenseless. There are not enough campus police in the
employ of every school in the state such that they could secure the entire campus from a gunman.

Instead of infringing upon our right to defend ourselves, these schools should encourage those who feel
comfortable with weapons to bring them to school. Perhaps if they did so, they would have no need to
inform us of rapes occurring in parking lots which are a stones throw away from the police station.
Students and faculty who know themselves to be competent users of firearms should come to their
respective schools armed so that if need be they can quickly dispatch of those who might wish to prey
upon their fellow man.

Therefore, I encourage those who know what is right, to do what is right. One need not let it be known
what one does, lest the wrath of the powers that be befall them

The Abominable IceMan,
I believe in safety first.
abominable.iceman@gmail.com