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THE PACK A ROD TO SCHOOL DEBATE
The Louisiana legislature is in session, which means that our elected officials are busy trying to pass idiotic laws. The dumbest proposal of all comes from Rep. Ernest Wooton who wants to let college students carry concealed weapons on campus. Mr. Wooton should read today's Picayune frontpager about dumbshit frat boys at Tulane. I don't think we want knuckleheads like that packing heat.
My friend Chris Wiseman wrote a letter to the editor, which was published in yesterday's paper. It's a brilliant parody of the whole damn fool notion: "Jarvis DeBerry does us all a great service by calling attention to Rep. Ernest Wooton's push to allow concealed weapons on college campuses.
My 4-year-old son is a pre-K student at the day care center on the campus of Loyola University New Orleans. Rep. Wooton's idea does not go far enough. Please, sir, allow us to arm the preschoolers!
As a parent, I would be proud to send my boy to day care packing heat for the safety of all.
In addition, the children at the adjacent Catholic elementary school should be given guns, as should the students at the high school just up the street.
The crime statistics for my city make it obvious that what we need are more guns on our streets and campuses."
It's a pity that NOLA.com doesn't let the booboise comment on the letters. There are probably people who took Chris' suggestions seriously...
The whole thing reminds me of the time Archie Bunker proposed a similar solution to skyjacking:
I don't know if you had remembered that All in the Family bit or just ran
across it, but it is DEAD ON and hysterical!!
I'm an All In The Family junkie and that bit is seared on my memory.
Actually, DeBerry talks about that episode of AITF in his editorial...
Ah, that clip was perfect and perfectly hilarious.
Wooton's bill, and his rationale for filing it, is so insane that it just
might pass. Having a new, reform legislature gives me a warm and fuzzy
feeling.
College students are for the most part Adults and should be granted the
same rights and responsibilities of adults everywhere else.