Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!wjafyfe 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 Article-I.D.: watmath.15536 Posted: Tue Jul 2 16:10:26 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 06:23:36 EDT References: <503@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> <509@umcp-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: wjafyfe@watmath.UUCP (Andy Fyfe) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 20 Summary: 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 wjafyfe@waterloo.csnet