Theme parks for thugs

Here are a few recent news stories to peruse. Anyone else see the common theme in them?:

1. Four men have been arrested for the alleged gang-rape of an 18-year-old Hofstra University (New York City, New York) co-ed last Sunday morning. Cops are still looking for a fifth suspect.

2. A 20-year-old Johns Hopkins University student (Baltimore, Maryland) killed a home invader with one well-placed slash of a samurai sword early this morning (Tuesday). The now-deceased suspect apparently was well-known to the local cops:

"Police have also not formally released the name of the suspected burglar, but a department source identified the man as Donald D. Rice, 49, of the 600 block of E. 27th St. in Baltimore. Guglielmi said the suspect had 29 prior convictions for crimes such as breaking and entering, and had been released Saturday from the Baltimore County Detention Center after he was arrested by county police in August 2008 for stealing a car in Baltimore." (Emphasis mine).

Unbelievably, the student is currently in custody while police attempt to determine if his actions were justified (?). In an interesting twist, the official who presumably will make that call is none other than Patricia Jessamy, the Messiah-supporting prosecutor who is attempting to cover up the ACORN scandal (and, by extension, President Obama's hip-deep involvement with that group) by threatening to file felony wiretapping charges against the two intrepid filmmakers who uncovered ACORN's atrocious actions in Baltimore, among other places. Hopefully Ms. Jessamy will be able to tear herself away from grandstanding in that case long enough to let this clearly innocent student return to his home in a timely manner.

3. The autopsy results that will determine the cause of death of Annie Le, a 24-year-old Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) doctoral student, are currently pending release. Le's body was found in the wall of a heavily-monitored campus laboratory on Sunday.

"Yale officials say every entrance and exit to the building on the school's medical school complex is captured on video by a series of 70 cameras."

Yet no suspect was captured on any of those multiple cameras or by the key-card security system, and thus police have no one in custody to date for Le's murder, despite heavy suspicion centered around a lab tech who worked in the same building.


The common thread that runs through all three of these cases? All took place in double criminal-empowerment "gun-free" zones. By "double", we mean that not only are the states in which the events occurred extremely anti-gun (Connecticut marginally less than the other two, surprisingly enough, but it's nowhere as gun-friendly as most other states), the crime scenes were all also located on college campuses that ban the lawful carry of firearms by law-abiding students, faculty and staff, which pretty much ensures that only criminals and lawbreakers will possess them while on the property, as those thugs don't bother to pay attention to any laws, much less firearm bans.

Would the presence of a legally-possessed firearm by the victims of these crimes have resulted in a better outcome for them? Maybe, maybe not, but we certainly would postulate that the victims would have appreciated the chance to at least try to successfully defend themselves from their attackers with a tool that's much more effective than a decorative sword or their bare hands.

A bucolic suburban campus, an island of higher education in the middle of a ghetto war zone and a supposedly highly-secure campus lab. Violent crime can happen to anyone, anywhere and at any time, and no amount of supposed "security" can prevent it from taking place, as the Yale case graphically demonstrates. Why, then, are these sorts of victims denied their Constitutional right to self-defense merely because they are trying to obtain an education?