State-mandated victim zone: Woman stabbed at UT

WTOL.com (CBS Toledo) is reporting that a 22-year-old woman says she was walking on campus near the Health and Human Services Building at the University of Toledo when two men reportedly dragged her behind some shrubbery during broad daylight.

The victim struggled and was stabbed in the left thigh with a knife during what police say may have been a robbery attempt. Police told WTOL she then ran to the campus emergency phone and called for help. The attackers took off, and have not been apprehended.

The news station reported that the campus was "pretty empty at the time of the attack, because it's spring break, but a few graduate students say the attack made them think about how safe it was on campus..."

Despite the high crime rates on college campuses, and despite the fact that at 18 years-of-age, citizens can bear arms in defense of their country, Ohio law denies students their constitutional right to bear arms for self-defense while on campus, and mandates that CHL-holders leave their firearms in their parked cars when entering a college campus. This simply should not be.

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