We don’t call it hiding we call it concealing
CNN:
Utah students hide guns, head to class
The senior at the University of Utah gets dressed and then decides which gun is easiest to conceal under his clothes.
If he’s wearing a T-shirt, he’ll take a smaller, low-profile gun to class. If he’s wearing a coat, he may carry a different weapon, he said.
He started carrying a gun to class after the massacre at Virginia Tech, but the student says he’s not part of the problem of campus shootings and could instead be part of a solution.
Nick, who asked not to be fully identified so his fellow students wouldn’t know he carried a gun, says he has had a concealed weapons permit for more than three years. But it was Seung-Hui Cho’s murderous campus rampage that made him take a gun to class.
“Last year, after Virginia Tech, I thought ‘I’m not going to be a victim,’ ” Nick said.
It’s a decent piece, for CNN.
February 22nd, 2008 at 11:32 am
You have to cut these journalists some slack. They call it “hiding” on their planet. It’s an inter-planetary cultural difference thing. They do things very differently on “The Planet of the Moonbats”, and some of them find it difficult to assimilate.
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:14 pm
I’ll wager he’s not the only student with enough sense to protect himself.
Good.
February 22nd, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Atomicferret from ARFCOM was one of the persons they interviewed for the piece.
February 22nd, 2008 at 3:28 pm
I’m amazed, that was acually a decient article by the Communist News Network! None of their usual PSH and/or outright lies.
The “hiding” part gets me though, like CCW holders are ashamed to own a gun.
February 23rd, 2008 at 3:46 am
Hiding works for me. Concealment is akin to hiding. We may not like the connotation that is conjiured up, as though we were doing something shameful, but “hiding” is not inaccurate. Of course, I hide my penis when I go out and about and nobody seems to think that is shameful. Women generally hide their vaginas and breasts when they go out and about, nobody seems to think that is shameful. (well, actually, I think it’s a damn shame, but I’m in the minority).
We conceal these things out of consideration for the sensibilities of others. We have no need to be ashamed of having these things. Nor do we have a pressing need to force others to view our possessions. Perhaps the next time someone intimates that concealment is somehow in and of itself shameful we should challenge them to bare all they conceal. Accuse them of hiding what they are ashamed of and demand they justify its bearing and possession, and especially its hidden nature.
You will find every argument they use to be valid. Unfortunately for them, it is also valid for those who would carry arms concealed.