16 April 2008
Standing on the Cincinnati campus, Flitcraft calmly explained he is licensed to carry a weapon in Ohio. He wants to carry his gun on campus to defend himself from potential killers, but by law he can't.
Of course, they don't have Police Chief Grady there... instead, they have this guy...
"I don't think the answer to bullets flying is to send more bullets flying," said Gene Ferrara, the police chief at the University of Cincinnati. "My belief is we ought to be focusing on what we do to prevent the shooting from starting."
Ferrara was a Cincinnati cop for more than a dozen years before he became chief of police at the university. He also said that there are practical concerns from a law enforcement perspective: If you're responding to the scene of a shooting, how do you sort out who is the bad guy and who is the heroic student with a permit?
"The other side of that, I shoot everybody with a gun who doesn't have a uniform on and I then I end up shooting somebody who was a citizen with a carry permit," Ferrara said.
If you can't tell that someone carrying a gun is shooting at you or unarmed students, you shouldn't be on the police force, much less the chief. Unless he's guaranteeing that he can prevent any chance of a school shooting, he's only reinforcing the belief that the police should defend you, not you defend yourself. Didn't the Washington D.C. court say that a police force couldn't be held liable for failing to protect someone? They sure did.Since he can't make that guarantee, and can't be required to protect anyone, the students have the right to protect themselves. They should have the right to carry concealed on campus, and Ferrara should be ashamed of himself for suggesting otherwise.
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