Liberty University to install nation's first on campus firing range. Jesus would be so proud.

Courtesy of Yahoo News: 

Liberty University is seeking a permit to build an on-campus shooting range, less than a year after the school’s board of trustees also approved a policy that allows students to carry concealed weapons in dorms. According to the proposal, the shooting range would be the first National Rifle Association-approved facility on a U.S. campus. 

A proposal filed earlier this week for a special use permit from the Campbell County Planning Commission states that Liberty wants to construct a “nationally recognized, full-scale shooting, training and competition center” on its Lynchburg, Va., campus. The outdoor space will include a pistol range, a rifle range, an instructional area, and a 3-gun competition range, with future plans for an indoor firing range. 

“The project was introduced to the NRA during [Executive Vice President] Wayne LaPierre’s visit to campus last spring,” Len Stevens, spokesperson for the university, told Yahoo News. “They have generously offered their expertise to help us develop it.

I'll bet they did. In fact I bet they were falling all over themselves to help set up a gun range on campus.

You may remember that it was just last year that University President Jerry Falwell Jr. was encouraging his students to conceal carry on campus, so it stands to reason that he would like his students to get a little practice in before they get stressed out and mow down a bunch of their peers.

You know I think I am going to have to go back and read that Bible again, because I totally missed the part where it said "Thou shall lock and load, and return fire until the infidel twitcheth at your feet."

Do you think that might be in Deuteronomy?  

Florida police caught using actual pictures of black suspects for target practice.

Courtesy of TPM:  

Police Chief J. Scott Dennis told WTVJ that the practice of using images of actual people is standard. He also denied any evidence of racial profiling, saying that police also have white and Hispanic faces in its inventory. 

“Our policies were not violated,” Dennis told the station. “There is no discipline forthcoming from the individuals who were involved with this.” 

WTVJ spoke to federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, all of whom said that departments only use commercially produced targets rather than photos of human beings, let alone former suspects. 

Dennis told the station that using real people is vital to facial recognition drills.

"Facial recognition drills?"

Okay look let's put aside the racial component here, and take this police chief at his word that they DON'T use just black folks for target practice (Though admittedly I would like to see evidence to support that.), they are still training officers to shoot them in the head.

I mean a police officer's job is to keep the peace, and arrest those who break the law. NOT to shoot on site a suspect whose face they memorized by filling it full of holes at the firing range.

I swear Florida is working overtime to be the craziest, most racist state in the country.