Ted Talks and Another Way To Get Guns off Campus?

Tomorrow, the 1st Annual Great American Outdoor show ends.  I would be remiss if I didn't make at least a brief mention of Ted Nugent making an appearance. I expect that we will be seeing more speakers along his lines in the future, and hope that people tire of the paranoid, insurrectionist, rhetoric. One letter to the Patriot-News seems to indicate that some may be already.

But an article in The Nation regarding some institutions refusal to divest from fossil fuels makes me wonder if higher education could be another way to defund the gun industry.  With incidents like Virginia Tech, South Carolina State and, recently, Michigan State, there may be an opportunity for campus-based activists to push for their institutes to see if there are firearms in their portfolio.  

Finally, I am making an effort to keep up with the trial of Michael Dunn.  The case does bear similarities to Trayvon Martin, a white man shoots and kills a black teenager.  But there seems to be a major and perhaps frightening difference.  There seems to be no evidence that Jordan Davis, the victim, had any weapons.  This case could set a dangerous precedent, that even a verbal threat could be a license to kill.