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University of Virginia Cancels 21-Gun
Salute to Appease Snowflake Students

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Posted By: Northcross, 11/11/2019 1:07:57 PM

The University of Virginia canceled the 21-gun salute portion of its annual Veterans Day ceremony – citing gun violence. James Ryan, the university’s president, posted a statement on Facebook explaining that there were concerns about firing weapons on school property in light of recent school shootings. He said there were two specific reasons. "First, to minimize disruptions to classes, given that this event is located at the juncture of four primary academic buildings and is held at a time that classes are in session; and second, recognizing concerns related to firing weapons on the Grounds in light of gun violence 

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The University of Virginia, once an elite public institution, has fallen to this. It's cowardly president is unfit to lead anything, much less a major university.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: WhamDBambam 11/11/2019 1:12:23 PM (No. 232259)
Some of our so-called "institutions of higher learning" appear to be run by idiots.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 11/11/2019 1:23:54 PM (No. 232267)
Shame on the University of Virginia.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: lakerman1 11/11/2019 1:27:13 PM (No. 232269)
I could not call the U*niversity of Virginia 'elite.' After all, Dead Ted Kennedy attended U VA, after being kicked out of Harvard for cheating on a a Latin test.. (Dead Ted should have said, 'mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maximum culpa, but since he didn't know Latin, he could not utter those words.) Translation for you people - through my fault, through my fault, through my grieveous fault.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Phantomll 11/11/2019 1:27:41 PM (No. 232271)
The sissification of America continues unabated.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: lakerman1 11/11/2019 1:30:58 PM (No. 232275)
oops! mea maxima culpa. not maximum culpa. Shame on me for being a smarty pants.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: NorthernDog 11/11/2019 1:36:57 PM (No. 232284)
FTA:The blowback was apparently so significant – that President Ryan promised to re-introduce the 21-gun salute next year. The notion that students might suffer some sort of disruption because the ROTC is honoring our veterans is repulsive. I'm glad they got severe blowback. So sick of some ignorant snowflake derailing an honorable tradition.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: DVC 11/11/2019 1:41:54 PM (No. 232290)
A cannon salute is not "gun violence" you ignorant pansies.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: grampus 11/11/2019 1:46:59 PM (No. 232294)
Perhaps a twenty-one SON GALOOT
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Reply 9 - Posted by: leonardo 11/11/2019 1:48:02 PM (No. 232296)
Today’s snowflakes could never have prevailed over the Third Reich ... they would have joined forces with Neville Chamberlain and marched for peace wearing pussyhats. America’s adversaries now know that just being patient enough to allow snowflakes to prevail here will allow them to be the victor in any future confrontation. And when fools elect fools, the party is over.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: pinger 11/11/2019 1:51:49 PM (No. 232298)
If It wasn’t for gun violence, these little snowflakes would be speaking German. Have they ever in their entire lives attended a history class? Morons.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: grampus 11/11/2019 1:55:05 PM (No. 232300)
oops.....Sent too soon. Should have said that a twenty-one SON GALOOT might have been more appropriate. (With apologies. I have an advanced degree from UVA.).
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Reply 12 - Posted by: The Remnants 11/11/2019 1:57:36 PM (No. 232303)
Poor Virginia, they are following the same route as some others to become less than.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Wendybird 11/11/2019 2:20:24 PM (No. 232318)
When I was young, Vermont was an independent conservative beautiful place. It's still beautiful. When I moved to Virginia, it was an independent conservative beautiful place. It is still beautiful also, and other than the northeastern armpit, is still conservative.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Clinger 11/11/2019 2:25:59 PM (No. 232321)
Well finally we have taken the necessary step to keep our inner city youths from shooting each other and the random seven year old who wanders into the cross fire. Heck this could even cause the drug cartels to lay down their firearms and fight their turf wars with rubber bands and water balloons.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: FL_Absentee_Voter 11/11/2019 2:38:37 PM (No. 232331)
Side note. 21-gun salutes are reserved for Presidents, visiting heads of state, and Memorial Day observations of the fallen. Veterans deserve thanks and maybe a gun salute - but not 21.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Goose 11/11/2019 4:19:02 PM (No. 232407)
They fire 3 volleys, and often the firing party consists of seven firers, causing the uninformed to do math ("Oh, no! I was told there would be no math!") to come up with 21 guns. Heaven forfend they would hear the Salute to the Union when 50 rounds are fired!
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 11/11/2019 4:23:15 PM (No. 232414)
Bye-bye 1812 Overture.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: bad-hair 11/11/2019 6:18:10 PM (No. 232504)
The guns that make the LOUDEST noises are the ones pointed AT YOU.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: Mike22 11/11/2019 11:50:43 PM (No. 232662)
Does that mean that if someone had a really powerful stereo system and played the sounds of gunfire a high volume they could cause a total panic on campus? The cannon fire in the 1812 overture? Oh dear. I hope they all stay out of south Chicago.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: ColonialAmerican1623 11/12/2019 2:01:39 AM (No. 232685)
Wussified millennial carpetbaggers. Back in the day, they would have volunteered to shoot.
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