Not only a terrorist but maybe mentally defective
Me, that is. See, apparently if you think that maybe guns can save lives and counseling is by and large a waste of time and money designed to make people look like they’re doing something, you obviously need, err, counseling and evaluation:
In the aftermath, officials at Hamline University sought to comfort their 4,000 students. David Stern, the vice president for academic and student affairs, sent a campus-wide email offering extra counseling sessions for those who needed help coping.
Scheffler had a different opinion of how the university should react. Using the email handle “Tough Guy Scheffler,” Troy fired off his response: Counseling wouldn’t make students feel safer, he argued. They needed protection. And the best way to provide it would be for the university to lift its recently implemented prohibition against concealed weapons.
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So Hamline officials took swift action. On April 23, Scheffler received a letter informing him he’d been placed on interim suspension. To be considered for readmittance, he’d have to pay for a psychological evaluation and undergo any treatment deemed necessary, then meet with the dean of students, who would ultimately decide whether Scheffler was fit to return to the university.
All this for expressing an opinion.
May 15th, 2007 at 9:13 am
Sounds like the ol’ Communist “re-education” policy.
May 15th, 2007 at 9:30 am
Looks like the Thought Police are at it again.
May 15th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to be won.
May 15th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Sent this to president@hamline.edu on 5/10/07*****************************************************
I have just read of your absolute lack of morality and paucity of good sense in regards to one of your students.
I can only assume that you are pleased with the outcome at Virginia Tech. in view of your completely insane response to Mr. Scheffler emails and stance.
What you have done is immoral, illegal, and stupid. I am not surprised at the stupidity of what you have done. People such as yourself, in higher education have developed a monumental reputation for stupidity. However, you.,personally, should be a “darling of academia” in that you have taken stupidity to a whole new level. The sad part for those of us that live in reality is that there is no test for self-inflicted stupidity in an organism with average or above, native intelligence. Which is a shame, because we cannot institutionalize you dangerous creatures who aid and abet such atrocities as happened on Va. Tech’s campus, not even when you insist on perpetuating the system(s) that enable it.
I doubt you have read this far, but if you have, I doubt you have any comprehension of the values of humanity you have violated. Worse, I doubt you give a damn. I suspect that your main concern is your acceptability to others of your ilk. I also think that you would sacrifice the lives of every student on your campus rather than break with traditional academic denial of reality.
I hold you in contempt, as I expect all free people do and would if they knew of you.
Exceedingly disrespectfully,
May 15th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Told ya: The recent flapping about mental records in NICS is being seen as a back-door to more gun restrictions.
If you’re mentally deranged enough to want a gun, you are are disqualified from buying one. Just wait and see.
May 15th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
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May 15th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
His e-mail was a legitimate response to a discussion on making students feel safer.
After a major fire, for example,we can discuss counceling to make kids feel safer from fire, or we can show them how to use fire extinguishers and be alert for fire danger. Likewise with criminal violence.
Counseling shmounceling. I’d rather my kids be safe than feel safe.
And therein lies one of the demarkations between the Left and those who love freedom: One desires to feel, the other desires to be.
And since when did being “tough” make one a pariha? I say its high time we learn to respect toughness, strive for toughness and try to avoid and prevent weakness. Pity for the weak is one thing, but showing contempt for the strong is quite another. One can be both very strong and have compassion for the less strong. They are not mutually exclusive. Isn’t that what being a man is really about? It seems to me that “Tough Guy” had the right idea, but of course the loons on the Left will hate such things.
I for one am not going to try acting like a frightened little girl just because the Left will hate me if I don’t. I wont join that pack. Screw them– let them drink their own Kool-Ade.
May 30th, 2007 at 8:41 am
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