There's something particularly wrong in using someone's money--money taken from them without consent, mind you--to attack their rights. I get that not everyone values their rights, so people offering donations is one thing, but taxpayer money is something else.
And the University of Minnesota law school is crowing about how its students are attacking the right to keep and bear arms. That's a public institution funded by the taxpayers.
Let's understand that students are individuals. They're free to take whatever positions they want.
The issue arises when the school itself clearly picks a side on a contentious topic like gun rights, which is exactly what's happening.
A first-of-its-kind law clinic is addressing gun violence head-on.
Students at the University of Minnesota Law School focus on gun violence prevention through litigation. They're working pro bono on real Second Amendment cases through the attorney general's office, serving as special assistants. For many, the work is personal.
...Byers Olson, Alston and Roberts are just a few of the University of Minnesota law school students who are part of the Gun Violence Prevention Law Clinic.
"I think too, for me, it's been very personal. I had a friend whose dad was a victim of gun violence, and that was a real turning point for me," Roberts said.
"I wanted to know how the massive problem of gun violence could potentially be addressed through litigation," Byers Olson said.
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The students are the attorneys of record for the state defending gun laws against constitutional challenges with a goal of creating a safer community.
"We're not trying to take away your guns completely, but we're just trying to make sure that the streets are safe for trying to make sure that you don't pose a danger to yourself or to society," Alston said.
Now, if this were privately funded, that would be one thing, but it's not.
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Did you know they are funding a gun control "clinic" in the U of MN Law School where the prof + students are special assistant mn attorneys general?
— MN Gun Owners Caucus (@mnguncaucus) February 23, 2025
They're suing Fleet Farm and Glock and defending Walz/Ellison's gun control priorities in court.
The U of MN shouldn't get a dime…
The Glock lawsuit, in particular, was mentioned in the piece, which tries to allege that Glock is responsible for people buying third-party designed and built full-auto switches and using them, simply because it won't redesign their proven handguns to stop people from doing something illegal.
And the Minnesota taxpayers are paying for this, at least to some degree.
Then we have the "We're not trying to take away your guns completely," crap. I don't care who you are, that should be a big red flag.
First, there's an implicit admission that they do want to take at least some of our guns away. They want to infringe on our right to keep and bear arms, and this is being supported at a public university.
Where is the program helping students take the opposite side? Where's the effort to defend the right to keep and bear arms, a fundamental right explicitly protected by the United States Constitution?
Honestly, I'm of the opinion that our entire educational system, from kindergarten up, needs to be burned to the ground. Stuff like this isn't exactly designed to suggest that I was wrong in that assessment.
Our universities are only interested in pushing leftist dogma, including gun control.
And yeah, that includes using taxpayer money to fund it.
