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Lets see if I got this right hand over your stuff,get raped and beaten by some punks that do this 8 or 9 times a year or shoot the S.O.B. yea I can see me allow them to take my sister your sister anyone's sister and have themselves a party on my money,not where I live Maam.It's always ok when it's somebody else's problem just
as long as it doesn't effect us personally.
It is frustrating- don't get me wrong. But the campus has not made it their priority to fix it- most of these things occur a street or two off campus and the best they can recommend is to go in groups, stay off the streets after 10pm (we have classes that go to 9:30pm), etc... The ultra-violent things I have seen (not armed muggings, but rapes or beatings, for instance) occur once a year or so. A few years ago we had a young woman abducted on a street that borders campus and she was gang raped and dumped a few hours later; last year we had a student beaten with water pipes on the edge of campus. That's still too many in my opinion, but it is not like it happens everyday. But there are far too many muggings right off campus and on campus. It just feels like the university doesn't care. And the city doesn't care either because it is technically their territory- off campus.
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In general, our supposed brightest and best (college students) can't be trusted with firearms. Those who can at best hope to keep a job at 711 for the rest of their life can be trusted at 21, but not college students on campus. Go figure. I haven't been on that many college campus's, but all of them I've been to are weapon free zones.
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We're not even allowed to carry pepper spray on campus- it's against the student code of conduct because it's a weapon. If you're caught with a weapon you face expulsion. Although, I don't think (or I hope) they wouldn't prosecute/ punish a student who used a weapon against an attacker. But to be perfectly honest, I don't trust our current administration to not push the issue and make the stupid decision to hurt a victim further.