Common Folk Using Common Sense

From The Toledo Blade:

In what city police are calling a “very, very rare” incident, an 18-year-old female student at Tiffin University was dragged out of a campus computer lab and raped during the weekend.

Tiffin police Chief Dave LaGrange said the young woman, who is an international student, entered the computer lab in the basement of the main classroom building on Miami Street about 1:40 p.m. Saturday. She logged on to a computer and then was grabbed from behind, dragged to a nearby men’s restroom, and assaulted, he said.

Within minutes of the attack, the victim went to a residence hall and called police. Chief LaGrange said she was treated at Tiffin Mercy Hospital and examined by a sexual assault nurse examiner.

Lisa Williams, spokesman for Tiffin University, said university officials are working with city police on the investigation.

“A campuswide e-mail was sent immediately after the assault was reported, encouraging students to walk in groups and look out for each other and what to do should they become a victim,” Ms. Williams said.

Neither of the Tiffin campuses has its own police force.

Another innocent person becomes a tragic victim in a place where the innocent are prevented by law from self-defense and self-protection … this time at a place that doesn’t even have a token police force to protect the innocent.

And their solution? A campuswide email telling the students to walk in groups and look out for each other. A campuswide email telling the future victims where to go for medical assistance. A crappy email.

What about providing free handgun training and allowing law-abiding students to carry a handgun? Instead of holding hands and crying with each other AFTER a crime has been committed what about empowering the students to PREVENT the crime BEFORE it happens?

Says Chad D. Baus at the Buckeye Firearms Association:

She can vote. She can join the Armed Services in defense of her country. But in the eyes of Ohio law, she cannot be trusted to carry a firearm in defense of her dignity at her chosen place of higher learning.

Having made the mistake of listening to gun ban extremists whose predictions have, of course, failed to come to pass, Ohio legislators allowed the creation of many “no-guns” victim zones across the state when they passed Ohio’s concealed carry law in 2004.

This tragedy is full of lessons for any responsible adult (or parent in the process of teaching their children) about the realities involved in self-protection (realities which anti-self-defense bigots refuse to acknowledge):

• Lesson: “No-guns” college campuses do nothing to protect our daughters from sexual predators, but they DO protect sexual predators who attack our daughters.
• Lesson: Security cameras do nothing to deter a tenacious criminal, or to stop a crime in progress.
• Lesson: Campus security guards or off-campus police forces do nothing to deter a tenacious criminal, and can’t stop a crime in progress if they don’t know it’s happening.
• Lesson: If a person can be trusted take up arms in defense of their country, they should be trusted to exercise their Constitutional right to bear arms for self-defense back at home.

Are you parents convinced yet? How many of you are sending your daughters out into a place that protects the criminals more than it protects the students?

More from Chad:

In 1966 the police in Orlando, Florida, responded to a rape epidemic by embarking on a highly publicized program to train 2,500 women in firearm use. The next year rape fell by 88 percent in Orlando (the only major city to experience a decrease that year); burglary fell by 25 percent. Not one of the 2,500 women actually ended up firing her weapon; the deterrent effect of the publicity sufficed.” (Congressional Record, 90th Cong., 2d sess., January 30, 1968, p. 1496, n. 7) Five years later Orlando’s rape rate was still 13 percent below the pre-program level, whereas the surrounding standard metropolitan area had suffered a 308 percent increase.

My daughter has applied for her Georgia firearms license. She already has a tiny .380 in the glove box of her car, but soon she will be able to have a handgun hidden on her person … and in complete violation of her school’s policy on firearms. And this after the Founding Fathers wrote that we have a Right, granted by our Creator, to own and carry a weapon in defense of ourselves. She and I both agree that we would rather her get kicked out of school than to suffer the rest of her life after a brutal assault or rape.

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