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I love It When The Left Proves Me Right

militant-snowflakeThe really good news is that the Fifth Circuit has rejected a constitutional challenge to campus carry in Texas. The State allows concealed permit holders to carry on college campuses which got some professorial panties in a bunch. The law did not let the Profs prohibit concealed firearms in their own classrooms (some administrative areas on campus are still verboten), so they sued claiming “the law and policy violate(s) the First Amendment, Second Amendment, and Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”

The Court tossed it out, but what’s that got to do with the left proving me right? Plenty.

Two days ago I noted that,

The Democrat narrative claims that people can’t be trusted with firearms because at any moment they might snap and shoot everyone around them. In New Hampshire, a common theme when Liberals are trying to restrict firearms by limiting the places they can be carried is the old ‘Blood in the Streets’ narrative.

We can’t let them (continue to carry firearms here or there) it’ll be a wild west shoot-out! Blood in the Streets!

It never happens but they do it anyway. Why?

Because Democrats are either so unstable or the people they associate with “are” that they can’t imagine trusting any of them not to snap and shoot everyone around them were they armed.

And they like some of them. They hate you and your damn liberties, your words, your thoughts.

Now, take a look at one of the liberal professor’s arguments against campus carry. (emphasis mine)

[Plaintiff Prof. Jennifer Glass] … argued her classroom speech would be “dampened to some degree by the fear” it could initiate gun violence in the class by students who have “one or more handguns hidden but at the ready if the gun owner is moved to anger and impulsive action.” In an affidavit she expressed particular concern for “religiously conservative students [who] have extreme views,” as well as “openly libertarian students,” whom she “suspect[s] are more likely to own guns given their distaste for government.”

Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!!!

I’ll remind you, though I doubt there’s a need, that college campuses are the breeding ground for the social-justice micro-aggressed liberal snowflakes. Individuals who are trained to find offense in the casual (if unintentional) misuse of things like preferred pronouns. Using the word handicapped. Saying ‘American.’ Wearing the wrong hat. A cultural master race passing judgment on everyone and everything but incapable of figuring out which bathroom they are supposed to use.

They protest speech they disagree with to the point of violence, encouraged by the culture warriors and educators employed there. And, if anyone has any reason to believe their speech (anywhere, not just in a classroom) has been “dampened to some degree by the fear” [and that] it could initiate violence in the class by students… moved to anger and impulsive action,” it is religious, conservative, or libertarian students.

But that’s not the world liberal college professors live in. Everyone they know believes what they believe. That violence against opinions they oppose is not violence, it is justice. That hating those who challenge their secular humanist orthodoxy is not hate or bigotry, it is liberation. And that the potential presence of firearms is a violation of their constitutional rights (which is just an excuse for finding some other way to control you.)

The court says no on all three counts which I won’t reexamine here because I’ve made my point. The left is convinced you are unhinged because – whether they accept it openly or not – most everyone they know is unhinged or close enough to it to be a threat (and not just because these professors help to make them that way). Or, as I also noted here,

Yes, when you get higher up the food chain, there is a specific disarmament agenda that is about power and tyranny, but closer to the ground, we’re talking about sheep and parrots mirroring not just the talking points but expressing internalizations based on experience.

Make no mistake. The disarmament class is no less afraid of their own nutjobs so all the more reason to disarm everyone.

So, the Volokh Conspiracy piece is worth your attention because the arguments are interesting and in some cases unique.

Glass contends that to the extent the Second Amendment recognizes an individual right to carry firearms, persons not carrying arms have a right to the practice being well-regulated. …Glass advocates an “independent meaning” of the prefatory clause which recognizes “a constitutional right not to have the government force [individuals] into allowing guns in their professional presence as a condition of public employment unless gun possession and use are ‘well-regulated.’

As I said, it’s interesting. Check it out.

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