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April 20, 2007
Yale Bans Stage Weapons
The moonbats running Yale University have responded to the Virginia Tech massacre in a manner so asinine, only the intellectual elite could have thought of it. They are censoring the use of weapons in stage productions.
Students staging a production of "Red Noses" found out about the ban the same day their show was scheduled to open. At first Dean of Student Affairs Betty Trachtenberg wanted weapons banned completely, but she compromised by letting them use weapons that are obviously fake.
Brandon Berger, who must now use a silly-looking wooden sword, complains that his part has been changed from an "evil, errant knight to a petulant child."
But freedom of artistic expression is a small price to pay to have the world made safe at last from homicidal maniacs.
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at April 20, 2007 12:12 PM
Comments
OT: What is origin of that picture?
Posted by: metalgarth at April 20, 2007 12:31 PM
Maybe Va Tech should have banned this English professor:
http:athena.english.vt.edu/~hbrizee/marxindex.htm
Posted by: retire05 at April 20, 2007 12:42 PM
Sorry,
http://athena.english.vt.edu/~hbrizee/marxindex.htm
Posted by: retire05 at April 20, 2007 12:44 PM
Metalgarth, I got the picture from Caption This! I don't know where it comes from.
Posted by: Van Helsing at April 20, 2007 12:55 PM
I was in a civic theater production of "Pirates of Penzance". During the climactic battle between the pirates and police, one of the "swords" broke and a two foot piece of 1/4 inch dowel went spinning across the stage into the audience.
On the other hand, the way the pirate I was paired with was going at it, I was just as glad that he didn't have anything lethal.
Posted by: Paul Moore at April 20, 2007 3:00 PM
If your ultimate goal is to make your campus a gun-free "safe zone," then you ban all real guns, fake guns, inoperable guns, show guns, all firearms of any kind. Works every time!
What's that? Virginia Tech? Well, the killer there clearly had no respect for the kind of rules as put forth at Yale. I'm sure it'll work just fine, next time, though; nobody will bring a gun onto campus and shoot people, unopposed, ever again.
What's that? Some kid in Florida planning to kill 100 of his fellow high school students, trying to see if he can out-do Cho? Well, damn, I'm sure it'll work the time after that. I mean, what kind of psycho would dare take a gun onto campus in violation of these "gun-free zone" rules? You'd have to be crazy to do that, and I'm sure there's nobody else out there who's as nuts as Cho was. I mean, violating these rules would make you a (horrors!) criminal, and who wants to be marked as a criminal?
Yeah, yeah, I'm sure it'll work, next time . . .
Posted by: jc14 at April 20, 2007 8:51 PM
hey, another disgruntled nut job decides to take his frustrations out and solve his problems with a gun....this time at NASA. Gotta love those guns...real problem solvers.
And since when are laws passed based on the likelihood they will be obeyed? The US has all kinds of laws that are regularly ignored, yet none of you butt-plugs rally for the repealing of drug, speeding, drunk driving, or drinking age laws, to name only a few. When abortion was illegal, women stiil managed to get them...yet it's you Christian fundamentalist types who rally against abortion. Wouldn't women get them anyway, even if it was illegal? So why bother? You are such deep deep hypocrites.....
Posted by: westerberg at April 21, 2007 12:49 AM
so, i suppose tomatoes and eggs hurled from the audience are also out of the question?
Posted by: nanc at April 21, 2007 5:27 AM
westerberg
SELF DEFENCE is a basic human right, being an asshole is not.
Posted by: KHarn at April 21, 2007 8:28 AM
From a confused reader of this website, re: mine of April 20th: "whatever you were..Trying to say was lOst because of your stupidity! don't try to eXpress yourself, it's..embarassing..."
Dear reader (won't use your real name, if it is your real name, from the email): Sorry you were confused. What don't you get about "gun-free zone" rules not working, since those who would violate these rules voluntarily (i.e., criminals) are not about to be stopped by the mere existence of these rules -- ever?
The Virginia legislature recently passed just such rules as Yale University is contemplating when a student at VT, with a concealed-weapon permit, actually carried a concealed weapon onto campus (would have been nice had he been there, with his permitted weapon, last Monday, hmmmm? But of course, he wasn't, nor was anyone else who could have intervened and saved as many as 32 lives, and Cho had a "free hand," as it were).
Again, I regret your confusion. Best to reply by posting a comment at Moonbattery.com next time, so we can all see it, and those who wish can respond as appropriate. Also, please learn to type by using more than one finger.
So long,
jc14
Posted by: jc14 at April 23, 2007 8:48 AM
Leftists continue to astound and amaze me with their stupidity. Look at what happened in Austin in 1966 - students and non-students alike started shooting back at Charles Whitman, keeping him pinned down until the police could put an end to his shooting spree.
Posted by: Sam Houston at April 23, 2007 9:52 AM
Westerberg,
I was passed by a driver coming into work this morning (so I can subsidize your welfare check), and the driver was going 90+ mph in a 55 mph zone.
Stupid and dangerous driver? Nope...it must have been the car, right? Let's ban cars. You're onto something here, Kreskin.
Posted by: Crush Liberalism at April 23, 2007 10:25 AM
