A Central Connecticut State University professor has been criticized after calling the police on a student who gave a class report on the right to bear arms in school. The oral presentation for a communications class debated why students and teachers should be allowed to carry concealed weapons on campus.
The assignment was to discuss a “relevant issue in the media,” and the students presented their view that the death toll in the April 2007 Virginia Tech shooting massacre would have been lower if professors and students had been carrying guns, according to Fox News.
Professor Paula Anderson called authorities after the class ended. The 23-year-old student was brought into the police station and questioned about firearms registered in his name. The student, who lives off campus and stores his weapons in a gun safe, was later released.
Free speech critics are saying the professor went too far in calling the police over a non-threatening classroom presentation. Anderson, however, cited safety as her reason for calling authorities.
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