[Cross posted from www.hiramhover.typepad.com]
Following up on my earlier post about the Young Americans for Freedom at Penn State University, who want to "Take Back the Night" at gunpoint--the NRA representative they invited to a meeting last night sounds like something out of a parody of a Michael Moore film.
Saying "It's all right to be a little paranoid, because they are out to get you," NRA representative Charles Jones urged the 40 students in attendance to carry concealed weapons.
Via the PSU Collegian :
"Firearms are the great equalizer," Jones said during his speech. "A 105-pound women doesn't stand a chance against a large man."
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Jones also discussed Penn State policy that prohibits students from carrying concealed weapons on campus.
"Ask your administrators, instructors, and your president if they carry firearms," he said. "I would guess that yes, they do. Ask them why they throw impediments in front of you."
Seriously, please ask them--Charles Jones, alone in the world, will apparently be amazed to find that professors don't as a rule tote pistols.
More on the flip...
The Q&A session that followed proved contentious and left Jones flustered.
Audience member Katie Kruegler (freshman-psychology) asked Jones about the detrimental effect guns can have on people.
"What if they get into the hands of children?" Kruegler asked. "What if I carry a gun, and the assailant overpowers me and hurts me with the gun?"
Jones seemed flustered at the questions, and asked Kruegler if she was "a plant" sent to counter his argument.
Fortunately, the agitated NRA representative brought only a fake gun to the meeting.