In Utah, Gov. Jon Huntsman, Jr., just signed a law allowing college students to choose dorm roommates who don’t carry guns. This is a compromise after the University of Utah sued the state over a 2004 law that allowed student to carry concealed weapons on campus. That law is still in effect and bans on concealed weapons in classrooms have been overturned.

A compromise? No, this is terrifying. Students won’t know what to choose — a roommate without a gun so they don’t get accidentally shot in their own dorm room or a roommate with a gun so they don’t turn into the dorm equivalent of terrified innocent bystanders in Old-West saloon knockdown-dragouts.

Hey, I think they should consider re-making “Dangerous Minds” in Utah. What an angle: Michelle Pfeiffer plays an ex-marine teacher that tries to clean up the dangerous… uh… Salt Lake City… whitebread… University of Utah? Actually, can we get Samuel L. Jackson to play the teacher? He’d be great for this. Either that or let’s go all out and have Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan do it in a buddy-teacher movie.

(Great, now I’m gonna have “Gangsta’s Paradise” stuck in my head for a week.)

It’s all a little strange because who are they going to shoot out there, anyway? Other Republicans?

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