Understanding (Not Accepting) the Taboo Against Arming Campus Police
It may never be clearer than when the topic of under discussion isarming police at RI public colleges and universities, that debates involving guns almost always involve a wider set of issues…
Real dangers and disapproved behaviors, and moral and political weaknesses are certainly all factors in the debate over arming campus police officers – which is another way of saying that what guns symbolize in this debate is as important as guns themselves.
I go on to explain what the symbolism in the campus police and any gun debate involves — and what a particular choice of gun-related symbolism might ignore — in my guest contribution to today’s Nesi’s Notes.