Faculty at Los Angeles Community College (LACC) have canceled a longstanding National Rifle Association (NRA) class thanks to new restrictions laid down by the school’s board of trustees.
The new regulations, which apply to all nine campuses of the LACC system, will begin this year, and ban all firearms, including those that are “non-operational and in the instructional setting” from school grounds.
The rules make an exception for “non-operational” weapons used in “theatrical performances,” but not for the non-credit firearms class which the school has offered in conjunction with the NRA for the last six years.
Board of Trustees Vice President Scott Svonkin, author the resolution that ushered in the new rules, told Campus Reform last Monday he believes school’s have no place teaching students how to use guns —but that its educators and faculty do have a responsibility to “promote gun control.”
It brings up an interesting question. Does education about guns promote the use of guns?What do you think?
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ReplyDeleteAs I've said before, when you throw out one right, all other are soon to follow. We see here that academic freedom matters not a bit when the goal is gun control. School's [sic] have no place teaching students how to use guns? Clearly, Svonkin has lost sight of the purpose of education--namely, to teach many skills and ideas.
ReplyDeleteAh, so the STATE FUNDED school has a responsibility to NOT teach students how to avoid accidentally shooting themselves or someone else, And a responsibility to promote a political position.
ReplyDeleteNo more teaching the students to think, but telling them merely What to think.
Svonkin, who authored the resolution, told Campus Reform that he himself was not sure what “non-operational” meant.
ReplyDelete“You know, I’m not an expert in guns,” he said.
“I’m much happier with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department protecting our students and our staff and our faculty than having some random person who took a three-hour class and thinks that they’re Dirty Harry,” he added.
Talk about a little knowledge going a long way. So this person, apparently believing that the NRA class taught people to be "Dirty Harry", likely got rid of an NRA class that taught things like safe storage and use.
I shouldn't be terribly surprised though, it IS California after all.