Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Dougherty Valley KK | Judge: Armitage, Dan

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CP Text: Public colleges and universities in the United States ought to ban handguns on campus

Campus Carry qualifies explicitly under the courts definition of constitutionally protected speech because it conveys a clear message

Blanchfield 14’
~"What do Guns Say?" - The New York Times May 4 2014 - Patrick Blanchfield is a freelance writer with at a PhD in Comparative Literature from Emory University, and has completed four years of coursework in psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice at the Emory Psychoanalytic Institute. He does critical writing on US culture, gun violence and politics AC~
Earlier this month, in Bunkerville, Nev., representatives of the Bureau of Land
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one such event told reporters. "But that’s not going to happen."

Guns are a form of symbolic free speech protected by the first amendment: Law Review Proves

McGoldrick 08
~"Symbolic Speech: A message from Mind to Mind" Oklahoma Law Review Volume 61 Spring 2008 Number 1  - James M McGoldrick Jr. is a professor of law at Pepperdine law Prior to beginning his career as a law professor, Professor McGoldrick worked for the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and as a trial attorney for the Tulare County Legal Services. During his over forty-year career at Pepperdine School of Law, he served eight years as associate dean for academics. AC ~
And then there is mere conduct that, though expressive, receives no protection as
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be criminalized without regard to the constitutional protection of the freedom of expression.

Guns on campus are a symbolic political tool to assert dominance over minorities and maintain status quo hierarchies

Kautzer 15
~Kautzer Chad. Good Guys with Guns: From Popular Sovereignty to Self-Defensive Subjectivity. Law Critique (2015) 26:173–187 DOI 10.1007/s10978-015-9156-x. April 8, 2015. Chad Kautzer is a Philosophy Proffessor at Lehigh University Last year he was a Visiting Research Scholar in the Philosophy Department at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and has twice held fellowships at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat in Germany. His specialization areas are Critical Theory; Philosophy of Law and Right; Social and Political Philosophy; Race and Gender Theory; Marxism; and Hegel.
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My students bring guns to class. This is troubling,
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that constitute the ruler or sovereign subjects through subjugating violence beyond the law.