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From: wjafyfe@watmath.UUCP (Andy Fyfe)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Handgun control (again)
Message-ID: <15536@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 16:10:26 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  2 16:10:26 1985
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The following is taken from the University of Waterloo Gazette,
26 June 1985 (Volume 25, Number 39).

	Gun Control

	"Armed Police Enhance Safety on Campuses" was the title of the
	lead editorial in the Buffalo News the other day.  The article
	pointed out that the security officers at, for example, the
	University of Buffalo have not carried guns since it was decided,
	during the heyday of the 1960's radicalism, "that guns would only
	exacerbate negative student attitudes toward authority and increase
	the danger of violence in volatile situations."  But that problem
	is gone, and more recent experience of rape and armed violence
	makes it necessary for UB security officers to start going armed,
	the editorial said (and a campus committee has recommended the same
	thing).  Postscript:  the security department at UW doesn't even
	own any guns, says director Al Romenco, and he hopes it never will.

Andy Fyfe		...!{decvax, allegra, ihnp4, et. al}!watmath!wjafyfe
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