University Of Minnesota Students Demand Campus Cops Be Disarmed

By Tom Knighton

I get why some people don’t believe in campus carry. I understand why it terrifies them. After all, the perception is that only three kinds of people carry guns: police officers, bad guys, and wannabe Rambos. While we all know that perception to be false, it doesn’t mean that it’s not there. As a result, though, I understand why people get concerned.

I don’t agree, mind you, but I get it.

However, one group we should all agree that should be armed is the police. They routinely put themselves in situations during the course of their duties that places them at grave risk for bodily harm. This includes responding to potential mass shootings or more pedestrian violent crimes.

We need the police to have guns.

Yet a group of students at the University of Minnesota staged a sit-in at the president’s office in an effort to disarm the campus police.

Textbooks in hand, members of the student group Students for a Democratic Society held a sit-in outside University of Minnesota President Joan Gabel’s office Friday morning.

The students are calling for the University to disarm the University Police Department and increase the diversity of the student population. The sit-in is part of a …Read the Rest

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