RAPIST PROTECTION ZONE: Midday rape at Tiffin University

By Chad D. Baus

She can vote. She can join the Armed Services in defense of her country. But in the eyes of Ohio law, she cannot be trusted to carry a firearm in defense of her dignity at her chosen place of higher learning.

As if we needed any more evidence of the terrible danger of marking off Ohio's college campuses as defenseless victim zones, the Toledo Blade is reporting that an 18-year-old female student at Tiffin University was dragged out of a campus computer lab and raped.

From the story:

Tiffin police Chief Dave LaGrange said the young woman, who is an international student, entered the computer lab in the basement of the main classroom building on Miami Street about 1:40 p.m. Saturday. She logged on to a computer and then was grabbed from behind, dragged to a nearby men's restroom, and assaulted, he said.

Within minutes of the attack, the victim went to a residence hall and called police. Chief LaGrange said she was treated at Tiffin Mercy Hospital and examined by a sexual assault nurse examiner.

...The victim described her assailant as a tall, thin, African-American male in his 20s. He had a tattoo on his chest, although she could not provide a description of it.

"We don't know at this point if it's a student or if it's a stranger," the chief said. "It's an open campus just along the street in that section of the city. Either is possible."

Visitors do not need an identification card to enter the building or the computer lab, he said.

...Neither of the Tiffin campuses has its own police force.

Tired of reading about incidents like the one at Tiffin University? Keep this in mind:

Having made the mistake of listening to gun ban extremists whose predictions have, of course, failed to come to pass, Ohio legislators allowed the creation of many "no-guns" victim zones across the state when they passed Ohio's concealed carry law in 2004.

The ironic timing of this terrible incident cannot be overlooked, coming as it did just hours after the “Virginia Tech Review Panel” released its report on April’s horrific mass shooting on that "gun free" campus, and in the wake of many Ohio campuses concluding that more security cameras and quicker response times to alert defenseless students are the answer to preventing future such attacks.

This tragedy is full of lessons for any responsible adult (or parent in the process of teaching their children) about the realities involved in self-protection (realities which anti-self-defense bigots refuse to acknowledge):