LETTER: MCCC's Weapons Ban Puts School In Danger

The following letter to the editor was submitted by Lansdale resident Tom Bohner. To submit a letter to the editor at Patch, email justin.heinze@patch.com.

Dear Editor,

Liberal academia has again spoken this week as the Board of Trustees of Montgomery County Community college has declared the school a gun free zone. I can only hope that the logic courses they offer to their students employ stronger logic skills than they apparently followed in coming to this conclusion.

It appears that the Board concluded that if they deny law abiding citizens the right to carry weapons on campus, they will embarrass terrorists, mentally insane, and jilted lovers from coming on campus to harm the now helpless victims.

One has to look only at Fort Hood, or the movie theater out west, or San Bernardino, or Virginia Tech to see where these non-law abiding individuals will go to maximize the pain of their act. These locations assure the criminal little if any resistance and an extended time to cause maximum destruction.

How does the Board of Trustees believe that asking law abiding citizens, who have been vetted by both their local police department and the county Sheriff department, to leave their personal protection at home will increase the security at MCCC?

To the Board I would suggest that your decision to take guns from law abiding citizens was a dog whistle to the dangerous people in our society that MCCC is now a soft target.

Tom Bohner, Lansdale

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