Student Body President Vetos Self Defense Resolution

By Tom Knighton

At Capital University in Ohio, an individual described as a “convicted serial groper” allegedly sexually assaulted a student. Someone has been arrested for the assault, but now members of the student government want to pass a resolution supporting each student’s right to self-defense.

However, that doesn’t matter since the student body president apparently didn’t like the resolution.

A student body president vetoed a resolution supporting students’ right to nonlethal self-defense in the wake of highly publicized sexual assault allegations at Capital University in Ohio.

President Jason Fugate is inventing procedural and technical reasons to prevent the bill’s passage, according to members of a student group who wrote Senate Bill 1.

Despite majority support for the bill in a Tuesday night student senate vote, Fugate said he wouldn’t approve any similar bill until he was convinced the entire student body supported it.

The veto is “little more than an effort by the university administration to bury this conversation before it even starts,” the bill’s three authors, also members of the university’s Young Americans for Liberty chapter, said in a joint statement. “This is a clear example of university bureaucrats putting a political agenda over student safety.”

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In response to that incident and other violence targeting Capital …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms