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What are the implications of students carrying concealed weapons on the grounds of Liberty, and on institutions of “higher learning” throughout the United States? Dr. Warren J Blumenfeld counts some of the ways.
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Jerry Falwell Jr., current President of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, urged all students at the school’s convocation on Friday, December 4 to apply for concealed-carry permits so they can proudly bear firearms around the campus.
“I’ve always thought that if more good people had concealed-carry permits, then we could end those Muslims before they walked in,” he proclaimed to the loud unrestrained applause of students. “I just wanted to take this opportunity to encourage all of you to get your permit. We offer a free course,” he said. “Let’s teach them a lesson if they ever show up here.”
Falwell acknowledged a large elongated protrusion in his trousers:
“If some of those people in that community center [in California] had what I have [a .25 caliber pistol] in my back pocket right now …,” he said while students interrupted with even louder cheers and sustained clapping. “Is it illegal to pull it out? I don’t know,”
he continued while chuckling. Falwell told reporters he owns several shotguns, rifles, and pistols, which he has kept on his farm for several years, and he confirmed that he was given a license to carry a concealed weapon over the past year.
Later, Junior clarified that “those Muslims” to whom he was referring represent people like Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, the couple who shot and killed 14 people in a San Bernardino, California office building during a holiday party on December 2.
Junior took over as president of Liberty University after the passing of his controversial televangelist Baptist minister father, Jerry Falwell Sr., who founded the conservative Christian institution in 1971.
“Carrying” To Its Logical Conclusions
So, what are the implications of students carrying concealed weapons on the grounds of Liberty, and on institutions of “higher learning” throughout the United States? Let me count just some of the ways:
- More and more unauthorized deputies will engage in citizens’ vigilante (in)justice by misappropriating the national security duties of local, municipal, state, and national governmental agencies.
- Students will no longer have need of the previously dependable apple to entice professors to raise grades on their term papers.
- Enlarged trouser swells will snare potential sexual partners for sure.
- Students will have increased options to end domestic quarrels or quell partners’ threats of breakups.
- Depressed students will have greater means of ending their pain.
- Rather than simply giving professors nasty course evaluations on the many online sites, students will now effectively take out educators and spare future generations the torments of having to listen to their classroom chatter.
- And of course, on a college campus or anywhere, firearms and alcohol always combine to produce pleasurable experiences.
The Christian Crusaders
Jerry Falwell’s call to arm students at Liberty University comes at a very opportune time. Spike’s Tactical shop of Apopka, Florida has begun marketing its special AR-15 assault rifle, which company spokesperson, Former Navy SEAL Ben “Mookie” Thomas, claims was “designed to never be used by Muslim terrorists,” as the shop’s never-ending battle in the Christian Crusades.
On one side of the rifle, shop employees laser-etched the Knights Templar Long Cross of the original Crusaders when they marched to reclaim the Holy Land from Muslims in 1099 CE. On the other side, they engraved Psalm 144:1: “Blessed be the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.” Called “The Crusader,” the rifle includes a three-setting trigger safety control branded “Peace,” “War,” and “God Wills It.”
“Mookie” Thomas originated the idea for the rifle, stating, “Off the cuff I said I’d like to have a gun that if a Muslim terrorist picked it up, a bolt of lightning would hit and knock him dead.”
Unfortunately, owners, employees, and customers at Spike’s Tactical seemed to have forgotten that the Christian Crusades represent one of the most horrific, shameful, and tragic scars on Christendom.
Pope Urban II summoned the First Crusade in Clermont, France to “liberate” Jerusalem from Muslims. In the summer of 1096, as the crusade began, they murdered several thousand Jews along their way in the lands along the Rhine River, looted and destroyed their homes, as the Crusaders stated,
“Because why should we go off to attack the unbelievers in the Holy Land and leave the unbelievers in our midst untouched.?” They accused Jews as being treacherous auxiliaries of Muslims. According to Pope Urban II, “Let us first avenge ourselves on them [the Jews] and exterminate them from among the nations so that the name of Israel will no longer be remembered, or let them adopt our faith.”
When the Crusaders reached Jerusalem in 1099, they pillaged Muslim buildings and killed thousands. The massacre of the Muslim population of Jerusalem reached epic proportions. In addition, the invaders burned the synagogue on the Temple Mount to the ground with all the Jews inside. One Crusader, an eyewitness to the event wrote:
“Men rode in blood up to their knees and bridal reins. It was a just and splendid judgment by God that this place would be filled with the blood of the unbelievers.”
The Crusades lasted from 1040 – 1350. By 1204, however, the tide began to turn against the Western European invaders, as the Mamluk dynasty in Egypt drove them out of Palestine and Syria.
Oh well, Falwell doesn’t need to understand history since he merely leads an institution of higher learning. Right?
But I would ask Falwell, if the historical Jesus were alive today, would he apply for a concealed-carry permit, or instead, would he accuse you of misinterpreting and thoroughly distorting his message? What do you think, Junior?
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If colleges are supposed to be comprised of our best and brightest including those in ROTC, what does opposition to concealed carry for them say?
What specific regulation would actually work in curtailing gun violence?
Tom, I’m sure you will probably have objections to most of these, since you asked: • We must ban and criminalize the possession of semi-automatic and so-called “assault” weapons! • We must close loopholes such as buying a weapon at a gun show! • We must ban the purchase of firearms from those on the federal “no-fly” list! • We must continue the ban in the purchase of firearms and ammunition on the internet! • We must increase the waiting period and make background checks more rigorous and effective in the purchasing of firearms! • In addition, we must initiate… Read more »
Glad my vote cancels out yours. 90% of what you’ve listed here isn’t going to do anything to help do anything but restrict the rights of non-violent people. I have a 16 ga shotgun that was built in Austria back in the early 1900s. It’s been a family heirloom for years- Not shocking that you would consider it reasonable to force me to retro fit it with a biometric device that would ruin the historic value, the aesthetics and be incredibly cost prohibitive. No one is made safer by this. You only reduce the aesthetic value and utilitarian aspects of… Read more »
Warren, I understand what you’re saying but here’s my gripe … We have regulations on the books and I know there have been other articles where we’ve shown how the current regulations are not working. You speak of prosecution yet we’ve shown how they are not being prosecuted. Where is the article saying “Mr. President, why aren’t current laws being enforced through you administration?” And maybe that’s my biggest rub, the current administration not doing its job yet the only thing you hear is how the gun owners are the nuts. “To put it another way, FY 2015 represents a… Read more »
Warren, I’m sorry but this list is confusing to me. You want to initiate background checks for the purchasing of ammunition, but you also want firearm owners to take at least one “rigorous course” in the use of their weapons. The natural conclusion being that the course involves target practice; target practice requires ammunition; and thus there is now a mandated background check for the purchase of the ammunition to take the class. That sounds more than a little onerous and reeks of regulations that seek to eliminate a constitutional right (you know, like requiring doctors who offer abortions to… Read more »
Based on what you e written one would expect an epidemic of violence in Lynchburg stemming from the “crazies” at Liberty U. Of course, once again, that isn’t the case. Liberty students are, by and large, law abiding and non violent. Certainly not the demographic you would target to reduce violence if one were not being entirely disingenuous.
By the way, your crusades rhetoric is only about 1000 years out of date; not exactly relevant.
It’s blindingly obvious what you actually oppose when you write these articles.
Definate surge in gun sales …. “White House spokesman on Thursday called it a “tragic irony” that legal gun sales are soaring.” I say it’s simply people waking up.
He had me at Christian Crusaders. That’s a classic.
There’s a rather crude but very apt phrase: ‘The bottom has a longer memory than the boot.’ The perpetrators forget; the victims do not. The fact is that Islamic terrorists refer back to the Crusades. The memory of the Crusades is alive and well in Muslim lands, even if they’ve been thoroughly and willfully forgotten in the West. So it is the height of foolishness for Christians or Westerners to resurrect this language. We are simply playing our enemies game, reinforcing their prejudices. Peace-makers need to be aware of history, and then try to heal it. So many current conflicts… Read more »
Face it. They’re just upset because they haven’t taken over the world yet. The Crusades is just a reminder of that failure. Based on that logic my wife’s side of the family should declare jihad on the Greeks. I mean they did slaughter her Trojan ancestors. What’s another two thousand years between enemies. One of the many reasons America is around. So you can leave your past in the past.