Rebirth 79: I opened a bank in the United States

Chapter 416 Lifting the ban on the right to hold guns

The occasional homeless sneak into Yale is actually not news.

From the Seminary in the north, the Institute of Religious Music, to the School of Nursing in the south.Regardless of the West Haven campus being built, Yale's scope is quite large.

And colleges and universities in the United States do not have the habit of building fences. Not to mention the local branch, even if the entire New Haven police station is pulled over such a large area, it will not be able to achieve a complete blockade.

But this is the first time that a vicious case has occurred within the Yale campus!

"Our law enforcement force here is actually the strongest in New Haven. Not only the city police pay attention, but also the campus police and security guards are responsible for management. Usually, they would not choose us as a crime location because the risk is too high. Big. But it doesn’t rule out a situation as desperate as Abbott’s.”

The next day, the whole of Yale was cast in a haze.While preparing for Brian's funeral with Melinda, Carter heard Melinda say:

"At tomorrow's regular meeting, the issue of campus safety will definitely be brought up again. I guess this meeting will be an enlarged meeting. The Graduate Senate, the University Council, and the professor committees and principals of each college should all be present."

"We probably don't have much chance to speak, but we can prepare. After all, we are doing this before, although we haven't done it well."

"okay, I get it!"

Regarding Brian's funeral, Yale has made a clear division of labor.The principal informed the family of the sad news, and members of the board of trustees coordinated the funeral with the committee of professors in the School of Management where Brian was alive.

No matter how the other party's remains are disposed of after they return to their hometown, at least it is here at Yale.As a pioneer who died due to campus safety issues, the School of Management agreed that Yale needs to give him a funeral and serve as a wake-up call for campus safety for future generations.

Leaving aside the upper-level issues of the school that they did not need to consider, Carter and Melinda came to Dwight Hall, which is responsible for providing community services, and made a new questionnaire with each other.Unlike last week's questionnaire survey, this time the survey has a very clear inclination, that is, it needs to find out the number of people who have been to those tree-lined cemeteries, Grove cemetery, or other messy areas that may pose potential safety hazards.

An unexpected incident allowed Carter to see the executive power of Yale students.

When the questionnaire was completed, it was already noon on Saturday.When the questionnaire was being printed, calls were made to various colleges through the Dwight Hall phone, and within half an hour, thousands of volunteers gathered at the door.

When a questionnaire comes out of the printing room, it will be taken away immediately.They either went door-to-door in their respective colleges to collect information; or ran to various classrooms and laboratories.
No one dares to be negligent, and no one complains about hard work when it comes to issues related to everyone's safety.

The time came to Sunday, as Melinda had expected.Early in the morning, Carter was notified that the venue for the afternoon council meeting was changed to the Connecticut Auditorium.The new meeting place is in the courtyard of the old campus. After standing by the window and looking at the building that was built in 1750, Carter began to prepare ideas and proposals that he might want to express in response to the increasingly serious issue of campus security.

Especially, in this era when there is no mobile phone and mobile communication is not popular.This means that the efficiency of information transmission is extremely low, and people simply cannot send a signal for help when they encounter danger.

Just like yesterday, if there is a mobile phone, I can either contact the bodyguards to come to support me, or call the police directly.There are always many ways, there is no need to rush upwards at risk
But no, no, not at all!
In the Hewitt Quadrangle, apart from a small library, the rest are basically function halls.This kind of area, at night, is almost completely deserted. Once the gate is locked, even if you want to ask for help, or find a phone, you can't do it.

Yesterday, Kaiya called the police, but she ran all the way to the engineering school to find the phone.And this is thanks to the fact that the time of the incident was not too late. If it was around eleven o'clock, the building would be empty, even if you went to the engineering school, you would not be able to find a phone or a person.

In this environment, Carter immediately thought of two ways:
First, increase standing duty points or call more police or security guards around the clock, and security personnel will conduct grid-based public security control on the Yale campus; second, increase students' self-defense capabilities, including but not limited to granting students A series of measures such as the right to equip people with guns, or the addition of security and defense courses.

The first item, Carter feels that the feasibility is not high.

Because whether it is the campus police or security guards, their affiliation is with the school.In other words, the campus police are actually school employees!
Compared with traditional school security guards, they are only given limited law enforcement powers within the campus by state law.They can deal with ordinary student problems directly, but serious crimes like the night before yesterday involving off-campus personnel still have to be handed over to the city police department.

In other words, increasing campus police requires Yale to increase its administrative investment.It is difficult for Yale to have an effect given that Yale's current income is declining and its budget is limited.

while the second item
"School gun law. I'm afraid it won't pass! Those anti-gun groups will not allow you to do this! Besides, this is Connecticut, the traditional territory of the Democratic Party."

Rick, who was standing behind Carter, couldn't help shaking his head when he saw Carter writing down his proposal on lifting the school gun law.

"Then what do you say?"

Carter dropped the pen in his hand, looking irritated.

First of all, in the United States, banning guns is impossible.There will be so much noise in the future that guns cannot be banned, let alone now?
"Besides, what I want to lift the ban is not the decree for outsiders to enter public places such as campuses with guns. I just imagine that a student self-defense gun license with special authorization can be formulated for Yale students. The caliber of projectiles can be restricted, but there must be a , It’s okay to make the assessment and review stricter!”

"Think about the time yesterday, the campus police, and the city police arrived at the scene. Ten minutes, right? A knife, oh, or a blunt knife could have driven us to this point. If Brian had With a gun in his hand, he wouldn't die! If I had a gun in my hand, I wouldn't have those damn anti-inflammatory drugs on my waist now!"

"Don't get excited, don't get excited! I'm just reminding you! Dude, if you want me to say, I also hope to lift some gun restrictions. But the objective conditions are like this. If you want to talk about this proposal, someone will definitely ask you at that time: For students The safe lifting of the ban on the right to hold guns will inevitably bring about more security problems, such as impulsive killing among students.”

"You have to think about this, which is the follow-up issue after the ban on school guns is lifted. At least, you have to refute them at the meeting, otherwise, you might as well not mention this suggestion! If you mention this suggestion, you will become The center of a vortex, that's not good"

(End of this chapter)