Via JunkYard Blog, a 31-year-old student at Hamline University in St. Paul, MN was suspended for suggesting, in emails to the vice-president of academic and student affairs and the president of the college, that students might feel safer around the campus if concealed-carry permit holders, such as himself, were permitted to carry their weapons. In order to have his suspension lifted, Troy Scheffler, the student, must undergo a psychological evaluation and also any treatment deemed necessary. Ironically, the powers-that-be at the university also stationed a policeman with a gun outside of Scheffler's classroom to enforce the suspension. Ooooh. Weren't all the students afraid of the big, scary gun?
I am tired of universities cracking down on students' free speech in this manner. After reading the article, I do not see anything that Scheffler said that warrants a psychological evaluation. Colleges and universities have become anti-free-speech zones, where only the currently correct ideas can be spouted. Unless you're a Muslim, in which case you're free to call for the destruction of Israel and goodness only knows what else. I'm going to have to be so careful where I send my daughters to college. Especially my eldest daughter, who wants to be a vet. Is she going to have undergo a psychological evaluation if she says that she doesn't believe she evolved from an amoeba?
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Don't be too surprised about this. Minnesota is the land of 10,000 liberals, doncha know? We also produced Paul Wellstone, Mark Dayton and Amy Klobuchar. No one can smoke a cigarette publicly in the metro area, so why would we be trusted to carry a gun?
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