Thursday, October 1, 2015

ThinkProgress FAIL: Group Attacks the Right for Oregon 'Gun-Free Zone' Claim

ThinkProgress FAIL: Group Attacks the Right for Oregon 'Gun-Free Zone' Claim: ThinkProgress published a factually incorrect piece in the immediate aftermath of the mass shooting at an Oregon community college. Pundits and experts mentioned that the campus was a gun-free zone and ThinkProgress wasted no time in publishing, “UCC Was Not A ‘Gun-Free Zone’ Because Public Colleges in Oregon Can’t Ban Guns.” The apparent pro-Democratic Party front group mistakenly assumed that the community college in question was somehow under the same guidelines as state universities.

The school, Umpqua Community College, was, in fact, a gun-free campus. An archived copy of their student code of conduct shows:

 Umpqua Community College Gun Policy



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