University of Colorado Segregates Students Based on Carry Permits

[jcizzle]

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/the-university-of-colo-is-segregating-students-based-on-gun-permits-do-you-think-it-should-poll/[/URL

To paraphrase, once the University of Colorado was ordered by court that it couldn't defy the CO law that they could not dis-allow students with valid carry permits from accessing campus buildings, they decided they had to let them carry but would separate their living quarters from the rest of the student population. They will be housed in separate dorms just off the campus.

Side Note: (keep in mind this is the same univ. that was busted paying female students and hookers to "entertain" sports recruits just a couple of years ago)

My Opinion: Even though I think it's uneducated and stupid of the university. I think it's great. At the end of the school year, they will be able to compare things such as theft, assaults, rapes and all that other jazz that takes place in college dorms. I am confident that the one full of guns will have a much lower crime rate even though they walk a further distance to their dorm. Numbers don't lie. By segregating, there will be no denying where the safer place to live is.

 

[JeffT]

... I am confident that the one full of guns will have a much lower crime rate even though they walk a further distance to their dorm. Numbers don't lie. By segregating, there will be no denying where the safer place to live is.

While the segregation will probably prove your point very well.
I think it is a bad idea to segregate students at all. It sets a BAD precedent that those who have guns can be forced to live in a seperate(but equal) area. We got rid of segregation based on race a long time ago. Don't Go Back, to segregation for any reason.

 

[MLRyan]

So segregation based on Constitutional rights? What's next, segregation based on skin color? Oh, wait...

 

[jcizzle]

So segregation based on Constitutional rights? What's next, segregation based on skin color? Oh, wait...

I guess I think these are different things. To compare it to racial segregation is absurd. I choose to carry a firearm but didn't choose to have the complexion of chalk. Guess we shouldn't segregate freshman dorms, or for that matter, middle school and high school, heck, how do we determine who is in what class, let's just have one big class to cover everything so we don't segregate on other choices such as career path.

I know that's way overboard but so is linking it to racial segregation. Carrying a firearm may be a right but it's also a choice.

 

[338Shooter]

Personal responsibility and self reliance isn't a choice. I was born this way.

 

[Okie4570]

So if at the end of the school year, if the gun carriers had less crime, we won't hear a word about it.

 

[Dave70968]

It's an absurd comparison insofar as one is voluntary and the other not. However, there is another theory that says people should not be treated differently or denied services, accommodations, or legal privileges merely because they choose to exercise their rights. The courts would set land speed records in shutting down a program denying access to welfare funds for people who speak in favor of Democrats, as it would run afoul of the First Amendment. Since separate-but-equal has already been shown to be unequal, it would seem that this program denies equal protection to people who choose to exercise their Second Amendment rights.

 

[MLRyan]

I guess I think these are different things. To compare it to racial segregation is absurd. I choose to carry a firearm but didn't choose to have the complexion of chalk.
I know that's way overboard but so is linking it to racial segregation. Carrying a firearm may be a right but it's also a choice.

Ok, I see your point, we don't have to practice our rights, but people can't choose race. How about comparing it to religion? What if UC segregated the dorms based on religion. Since people choose to practice religion, they couldn't complain about the segregated dorms, right? If they don't want to be discriminated against, they just don't practice religion. Seems fair. What do you think? Not trolling, just discussing.

 

[Dave70968]

MLRyan nails it.

 

[jcizzle]

Personal responsibility and self reliance isn't a choice. I was born this way.

Spin it however you want but it's still a choice. Just because you and I "CHOOSE" to accept that responsibility and "CHOOSE" use a firearm as the tool to do so, doesn't remove owning a firearm from being a "CHOICE". I now own several firearms and carry everyday everywhere. However, for the first 30 years of my life I didn't and nobody forced me to own or carry a gun. I CHOSE to. It is a CHOICE.