Using preemption to justify invading Iraq or Iran is debatable. Using it to arrest allegedly crazed individuals who violate community laws is not. So it was to my great surprise that individuals criticized the University's College at Wise for expelling its student, Steven Barber, for penning a threatening story and illegally possessing weapons on school property. Contrary to widespread calls of injustice by the pro-gun crowd, the "Wise Doctrine of Preemption," as I call it, was an exemplary model that should be hailed as a case study for other institutions as one response to a particular "case of concern."
In Barber's creative story he submitted on Feb. 28, the first person narrator thinks about killing his professor, "Mr. Christopher"
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