Thursday, October 01, 2015

I garbled some facts in the post that used to be here -- Umpqua Community College, where a mass shooting took place today, was never part of the Oregon University System, and therefore it wasn't subject to a court ruling or a policy decision by Oregon's higher education board that I described in that original post. My apologies.
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5 comments:

  1. Nefer4:17 PM

    I am so tired of the argument that criminals won't respect gun-control laws, so why have them? If that is the case, why have any laws at all?

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  2. Feud Turgidson6:37 PM

    Every national, regional or local TV and cable news broadcast, every daily newspaper, & every website that comments or links to comments on general news, should start - MUST start - right at the beginning, right on the front page in a prominently-bordered box, & right at the top as the very first item, with a report on the most notorious shooting(s) of the day.

    But that's just me; and even tho there are tens of millions who I expect would either agree or at least show support or understanding for this position, that facts that we DON'T have this feature in our society & instead have these recurring incidents of the most senseless & randomly motivated of mass murders, often more than once a month at this point, means not only must there be a lot of people, possibly in the multiple millions, who LIKE all this pointless mayhem, but there must be an awful lot more money involved, going to an awfully well-thought-out set of deeply corrupt pols, than I can possibly imagine.

    If we can't do anything useful and meaningful to combat something as obviously wrong as this - & it's become obvious that we cannnot - then surely we are so fucked.

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  3. M. Bouffant7:01 PM

    Do state laws concerning the U. Of Oregon apply to community college districts?

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  4. paulocanning7:42 PM

    Everyone reading this will agree with Steve but I ain't American. In 2013 I suggested shunning you might help, would it? Serious question. http://paulocanning.blogspot.com/2013/04/americas-shame-in-one-photo.html

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  5. Steve M.8:26 PM

    Do state laws concerning the U. Of Oregon apply to community college districts?

    No. My bad. See above.

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