Smiley Anders for May 14, 2008
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The proposal in the Legislature to arm college students seems to me likely to activate the old Law of Unintended Consequences.
Let’s say you’re a college professor facing a classroom full of students — and you know they’re packing heat.
Are you going to flunk any of them?
I don’t think so. …
Supporters of the guns-on-campus law could use the argument that it would cause graduation rates to soar.
You feeling lucky, prof?
Which reminds me
Back in my days at the LSU School of Journalism, I had an experience with guns in classrooms.
A classmate, Roy Bailey, worked his way through school as a Baton Rouge police officer, on the night shift.
He’d come to his morning class straight from work, wearing his uniform and gun.
Our instructor, Nick Plasterer, told Roy he was going to retire to the West, and needed a pistol like his.
So the class took up a collection and got Roy to buy a Police Special for Nick.
As Roy presented the gun to Nick, Rex Reed made his usual late arrival to class.
Rex, now a top New York critic, was habitually late, and Nick was constantly fussing at him about it.
On this day Rex charged into the room and confronted Nick, who gave him a baleful stare while holding a .38 revolver.
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