When you find yourself ducking under the tables at Johnny O’s instead of dancing atop them — because the latest barroom kerfuffle has turned into a shootout at the OK Corral — you can thank our New Favorite People On Campus, the College Republicans.
These folks would like to see Cornellians armed to the teeth, prepared to repel any sort of terrorists, campus shooters, Sasquatch or Viking invaders that come our fair Cornell’s way. The CRs want to allow students — and anyone else — to carry concealed weapons on campus, because they think that’s the best way to protect against shooting rampages of the kinds seen at Virginia Tech and, last week, at Northern Illinois University.
Yeah, yeah, we’ve heard all that old hat before: if all guns were outlawed, only outlaws would have guns. Sure. But access is the better part of action: if Jaws wasn’t 12 feet long with really big teeth, we’re betting he wouldn’t be so keen on coming back to sink the ship seven or eight times before the end of the movie. Concealed weapons on campus? We think not.