Police State University
Posted on March 5th, 2008 by bile Categories and Tags: Uncategorized, 2nd Amendment, Arizona, ASU, ASU police, freedom, guns, Jim Hardina, liberty, National Guard, Northern Arizona University, police, police state, State University, University of Arizona, your rightsPolice departments at Arizona’s three universities plan to arm their officers with military-style assault rifles within the next year, officials said Tuesday.
The new rifles would give campus police officers long-range shooting capabilities, allowing them to hit targets at the end of long hallways or atop tall buildings, officials said.
Arizona State University will be the first of the three schools to use the weapons. Officers there will be trained to use the rifles in the next few months, said ASU police spokesman Cmdr. Jim Hardina.
Officers will undergo 40 hours of training before using the weapons.
“We don’t want to just throw rifles out there,” Hardina said.
Eight officers at the University of Arizona will get similar training before a rifle program launches there in four to five months, officials said. Northern Arizona University officials said a rifle program was in the works, although a specific start date was not immediately available.
ASU has bought four of the new rifles at $700 each, and is looking to find money to purchase four more. One challenge the department is facing: finding ammunition for the rifles. Increased military operations mean that the police department and the armed forces were competing for the same ammo, Hardina said.
First they militarized the militias turning them into the National Guard, then they militarized the city police creating to deal with drug prohibition later creating SWATs, then they moved on to smaller cities and towns teaching their police how to handle military grade weapons and now they are turning school police into soldiers. No need to worry about the Posse Comitatus Act when you’ve turned the “peace” officers into secondary military agents. Not that that matters after the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act of 2007.
I like how the faculty member says effectively that if the guns are out of sight than they are out of mind and therefore alright to have. That’s some logic there. Who wants to be that students and faculty aren’t allowed to carry on campus?
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