Dear Editor,

Once again our campus will host a National Rifle Association “University” that tells the gullible that we need less gun control and that that CCSU should allow students to bring guns to the campus and in the classroom.

Last year I attended the same event where people were told such bizarre things as the AR 15 Assault Weapon was not that bad, how we should be allowed to have “Cop Killer“ bullets and the many other outrageous and over the top claims. Be clear this is NOT a debate about the Second Amendant with all side and points of views, but a slick commercial for one of the most powerful and well-funded special interest groups who promote a dangerous agenda advocating for more guns and looser laws that threaten our neighborhoods and campuses.

Our clueless Student Government doles out about $5,000 dollars a year to a small group call the “Riflery and Marksmanship Club” to support this circus sideshow. The same club also has a yearly stunt where they parade around in the “Empty Holster Protest” saying students should pack heat as well. Our hard-earned student fees go this garbage, while other funding to other vital programming is being cut? The club has NOTHING to due with marksmanship or shooting competitions, which might be a valid goal of a sporting club, but they admit their sole purpose is the “Second Amendment” debate under the misleading idea of “safety on campus”.

Who needs a handgun with 30 bullets like the one that slaughtered people in Arizona recently coming to our campus?

Who needs a clueless student government that wasted $5,000 a year of CCSU student fees on a handful of students obsessed with guns?

Tim McKee
CCSU Student