In the running for "stupid story of the year..."

[Jack Burton]

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.


LA Community College drops NRA class after six years due to new regs

 

[Mark 1911]

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[MCgrease08]

I wanted to pull some quotes, but there are just too many dumb ones to pick from. This is just so full of fail it's insane.

 

[Mark 1911]

Another sad story in the California legacy.

 

[Mark 1911]

I wanted to pull some quotes, but there are just too many dumb ones to pick from. This is just so full of fail it's insane.

Reminds me of Dragnet, thousands of these stories in CA, this is just one of them.

 

[metaldog]

Oh darn! I guess the Color Guard girls will be very disappointed.

 

[actaeon277]

It's California. I refuse to be surprised.

 

[rkwhyte2]

Perhaps one of the better lines in the article

" Svonkin, who authored the resolution, told Campus Reform that he himself was not sure what “non-operational” meant.“You know, I’m not an expert in guns,” he said."

I truly thought I was reading satire at times. It is so sad to see a once great state that I personally spent many years living in go down the tubes so quickly.

 

[ljk]

it's Commifornia, they don't give a fack about your Color.

 

[92ThoStro]

Good point. I remember New Haven Unified had a rule against replica weapons as well, but we had a color guard team that had sabres and rifles. even. though they weren't listed as an exception in the policy.


I bet the rule was specifically for the NRA class

 

[leftsock]

I read one positive aspect in the article.

He added that the classes were incredibly popular, with each session filling up and resulting in another full overflow class.

People are interested. People want to know. They will get the information that they desire.

 

[Miles42]

No surprise as this comes from the arm pit of the Nation. We have the Freedom Fighters and the Freeloaders. California leads the nation in the latter.

 

[LockStocksAndBarrel]

Board of Trustees Vice President Scott Svonkin: Turn in your man card. What a wuss...

 

[HoughMade]

My personal favorite:

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.”

 

[led4thehed2]

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

“I believe that the NRA's goal is to promote gun ownership, and that guns lead to deaths,” he said. “So, not having the NRA teach classes, not having the NRA classes on our campuses, is a good thing.”
“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.

 

[CPT Nervous]

Is California still a state? I've been flying a 49 star flag for a while...

 

[GunSlinger]

This is not at all a surprise. What was surprising to me is that a California college had an NRA course in the first place.

 

[Hoosier8]

“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.

Maybe someone should tell him that the police have no legal duty to protect them.

 

[bingley]

You know, guns have been banned on Indiana University campuses far longer than they have been banned on LA Community College campuses. I don't see people jumping up and down in anger about the communist, socialist, fascist state that is Indiana. California would be more conservative than we are, if it took them until now to ban guns from campuses.

So what do you say, guys? Fix the problem at home first?

 

[MCgrease08]

You know, guns have been banned on Indiana University campuses far longer than they have been banned on LA Community College campuses. I don't see people jumping up and down in anger about the communist, socialist, fascist state that is Indiana. California would be more conservative than we are, if it took them until now to ban guns from campuses.

So what do you say, guys? Fix the problem at home first?

They aren't banning guns on campus, they did that long ago. They are banning "non-functional" guns used in a safety class that is taught in a locked room away from the general population.

Even the genius behind the ban admits he doesn't know what a non-functional gun is, but he knew it was the right thing to do to prevent "Dirty Harry" types. You know, the Dirty Harry types interested in gun safety.