Opinion
GUEST ROOM | Cornell reproduces Big Oil’s disinformation: It’s time to ask why
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Cornell publicly supports international climate goals while touting a “climate action plan” that falls far short.
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Cornell publicly supports international climate goals while touting a “climate action plan” that falls far short.
Last week, Cornell narrowly escaped becoming the latest entry in a list on which no school wants to appear. After a timely tip from Walmart, Ithaca police and the FBI were able to seize weapons, ammunition, and explosive materials from a former student’s Collegetown apartment, according to court documents unsealed Friday. Cornell is lucky, but that a very flawed system worked this one time is not a consolation, nor should it be used as evidence that America’s gun problem is anything less than incredibly dire. It is not right for a 20-year-old to be able to obtain an assault rifle, significant amounts of ammunition, tactical gear and bomb-making materials — all of which amount to what IPD called a “specific recipe for large scale destruction.” It is not right that the only thing illegal about Reynolds’ possession of that rifle was that he obtained it through a so-called “straw purchase,” wherein he paid another man to buy it for him. We must consider whether anyone, regardless of method of purchase, should be able to hoard such weapons.
The threats leveled against the University were characterized as non-specific, not singling out a definite location or motive, but contain “clear reference to causing harm,” Zoner wrote.