Larry Hincker, associate vice president for university relations, positively dripped with ridicule for Wiles’ plea in his rebuttal, using terms like “inane,” and admonishing the student for not feeling safe with “hundreds of highly trained officers armed with high-powered rifles encircling the building and protecting him.”
“Guns don’t belong in classrooms,” Hincker concluded. “They never will. Virginia Tech has a very sound policy preventing same.”
"A Very Sound Policy," my Rights Watch column for the August issue of GUNS Magazine, is now online.