Firearms not only weapons used for crime

If a firearm is indeed as useless a defensive weapon as professor Fregosi would have us believe, perhaps he'd care to explain why the police still feel a need to carry one. Or why those states that have passed laws to allow citizens to carry defensive firearms have experienced marked decreases in violent crime as a result. It must be tough for him to keep clinging to an emotion-based belief system that is consistently refuted by the actual facts ÷ such as his assertion that murder would all but disappear without firearms, when the FBI's own statistics show that a full third of all murders in this country are committed with non-firearm weapons, with murder totals higher in the cities with the toughest gun control laws. How many people died on Sept. 11 because of a few murderers wielding little box cutters? The most airtight "gun ban" in the country (on commercial aircraft) didn't seem to stop them. How many lives would have been saved if there were just one person with a defensive firearm on any of those aircraft? Tim Belshe's article placed all of the blame on the behavior of the killer, simply because that is where the blame rightfully belongs. [Read article]

The last few months in America have seen a resurrection of the crusade against the omnipresent menaces of indecency and offensive material. Suddenly, America has become one big, furious, hysterical mob, ready to pounce on anything that can be viewed as not being politically correct or that can be conceived of as any bit offensive to any person or group. The corporate giants have heard the impassioned cries of these sanctimonious throngs of offended people, and they have responded with zeal. Just look at the last few months for CBS. [Read article]

This year's ASUA field has some standout stars ÷ Alistair Chapman and Stephanie Hartz come to mind ÷ but in general, Election Commissioner Daniel Suh's efforts to recruit better informed, more professional candidates appears to have gone unrewarded. In an effort to support only those candidates we feel deserving of election, the Wildcat has decided to make endorsements in the presidential, executive vice presidential and senatorial races. We make no endorsement for administrative vice president or two of the senate posts. These are the candidates who will truly make ASUA the best it can be. [Read article]