I was happy to read the column "Packing heat" (Feb. 17) that there's someone out there who shares my views. As often as Thomas Jefferson's name and ideals are invoked at the University, nobody seems to recognize that Mr. Jefferson would more than likely frown upon the repression of the right to bear arms at "his University." He did, after all, found the University after helping lay the foundation for a society based on personal freedoms and born out of an insurrection of armed citizens.
There's an important point that I'd like to add. Though University policy agrees with Megan Stiles when she says that "the University is a gun-free zone" where "only police officers can possess guns," this isn't strictly true.
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