College students across the country have been strapping empty holsters around their waists this week to protest laws that prohibit concealed weapons on campus, citing concerns over campus shootings.”People who would otherwise be able to defend themselves are left defenseless when on campus,” said Ethan Bratt, a graduate student wearing an empty holster this week on the campus of Seattle Pacific University.

Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, a group of college students, parents and citizens who organized after the deadly shootings at Virginia Tech University in April, launched the protest.

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I have been hearing this debated more and more lately and it’s becoming a contentious issue. Some argue that if college students are able to carry that campuses will turn into a bonanza. This claim is of course without any merit because the State of Utah has allowed concealed carry on campuses for years and they have not had a single incident. Then you have people like Tracy Schario from GW:

“We do not allow weapons on campus for the safety and security of our student body and faculty,”

Her position, while well intentioned, is simply illogical. Virginia Tech had the same policy as did all the other schools that have had incidents of shootings. It’s the same ridiculous argument that gun grabbing advocates make in terms of making the entire population gun free and “more safe.” The bad guys don’t follow the rules and the victims are left defenseless. A year or two ago there was a series of muggings on the University of Pittsburgh campus, one in which a student was beaten pretty badly. Would that have still happened if the would be attackers knew that conceal carry was permitted on the Pitt campus?

The Second Amendment rights of college students all across the country have been violated for a long time and it’s become rather clear in recent years that they are sitting ducks when they are at school. If students at Virginia Tech had been able to carry a gun 32 more of them might still be alive.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows former Mayor Rudy Giuliani leading Senator Clinton 46% to 44% in an early look at a general election match-up. Clinton has a 47% to 45% edge on another Republican hopeful, Fred Thompson.

These numbers reflect a significant turnaround from recent polls.

Clinton and Giuliani have been in a very competitive match-up for most of the year, but Clinton had gained ground in three bi-weekly consecutive polls. By October 9, the Democratic frontrunner was leading the former mayor by seven percentage points. But, the current results suggest a return to the longer trend-line established for this race.

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One of the biggest talking points the Giuliani camp likes to tout is how poll after poll shows he is the only one who can take on Hillary Clinton and win.  This would seem to say otherwise.

So I was doing a little Googling tonight and came across some interesting historical facts about the Fifth Congressional District here in South Carolina where I live. This seat is one of the few left in the south that has not been held by a Republican since Reconstruction. The Democrats have held the seat since 1883, but the district is changing as it went for George W Bush in both 2000 and 2004.

The one Republican to have ever held the seat was none other than Robert Smalls, a well known historical Civil War figure and the first black man to ever command a United States ship.

So, how do you like them apples?