Hamline Student Suspended and Required To Take Mental Exam

A Hamline University student has been "suspended a student after he sent an e-mail suggesting that the Virginia Tech massacre might have been stopped if students had been allowed to carry concealed weapons on campus." But it gets worse... for him to return to school, he must take a mental health exam! See the FIRE press release, and the supporting docs too.

It never ceases to amaze me... the rights-violating things that some university officials will do these days. Thank goodness we have FIRE around to fight for the rights of students, and to fight back against such irrationality. Out of all the great cases that FIRE has fought and raised awareness of over the years, I think this one is in my top-10 -- or bottom-10 in the sense of being the most bizarre and wrong. To claim that someone who makes a common, sensible, and quite defendable (whether you agree with the conclusion or not) argument in an email is actually a threatening person who must have his head examined to be allowed to return to class... wow. It doesn't get much worse than that!