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Fencing Team Banned from North Dakota State University Because of “Weapons Policy”

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Fencing, an Olympic sport sponsored by more than 30 NCAA schools, involves two athletes engaging in what is effectively a sword fight with a foil, saber, or épée. The equipment is blunted and does not have any actual blades or sharp tips. Unfortunately, for the newly-formed club fencing team at North Dakota State University, fencing equipment counts as a weapon, and the club has been barredfrom practicing on campus.

Naturally, the club members and their coach are not thrilled about this decision:

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  1. Toenex

    May 14th, 2014

    Is that a poptart that you ate into the shape of a assault sword, no cookie for you and 10 days off from the government indoctrination Center…

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  2. grayscape

    May 14th, 2014

    Maybe they’ll replace it with Cuddling and Grooming competitions.

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  3. Pelopidas

    May 14th, 2014

    Baseball should be next. A bat and a hard ball being the closest to the first weapons ever made- a club and a rock.

    Progtard idiots.

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  4. unneutral

    May 14th, 2014

    I’m sure the losers in art class are not allowed to even draw pictures of weapons.

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  5. MaryfromMarin

    May 14th, 2014

    I have to stop waking up asking, “what idiocy will progressives perpetrate today?”

    The never fail to provide some.

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  6. Left Coast Dan

    May 14th, 2014

    @Pelopidas – in 1990 I carpooled with a young guy for my bodyboarding class (yes, bodyboarding, while earning a masters in Aero Engineering!) he carried a bat in the back, along with a glove and softball. The bat was for use as a weapon if necessary, the glove and ball were for explaining to the cop if he got pulled over.

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  7. B. Hussein Obama

    May 14th, 2014

    Yep, keep softening them up … sooner or later, they won’t have any concept of self-defense.

    It’s always easier to beat someone who’s already beaten himself.

    SUCKERS! No, not like me and Reggie … y’know …
    SUCKERS!

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  8. Quinn

    May 14th, 2014

    I guess the track team can’t participate in javelin, discus, hammer throw, and shotput any more. All of those are weapons, more deadly than a fencing sword.

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  9. AvgDude

    May 14th, 2014

    Welcome to the United States of Progtardia… Please leave your brain at the door. You won’t be needing it any longer.

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  10. Czar of Defenestration

    May 14th, 2014

    Ban all women’s sports!
    Title IX notwithstanding!
    Micro-Agression from all the angry vaginas!
    Check Your Crotch Privilege!!!

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  11. Stirrin the BS

    May 14th, 2014

    I look forward to the day when we can ban progressives for being weapons of societal destruction.

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  12. Kevin R.

    May 14th, 2014

    The freaking world is going insane!

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  13. LocoBlancoSaltine

    May 14th, 2014

    North Dakota?
    Why don’t all the fencing athletes claim they are gay?
    PROGlem solved…

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  14. sleeping giant

    May 14th, 2014

    when i wake up with morning wood…it feels like a weapon.

    i know..i know… crass

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  15. Ted Nougat

    May 14th, 2014

    “Join us today at 12:00 noon in the NDSU campus commons for a special presentation by Mohammad Akmed, representative for Hamas to the United States. Sponsored by the Muslim Student Association and your SGA.”

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  16. Irish

    May 14th, 2014

    A baseball bat can be a weapon…just saying

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  17. Dumb Ass Liberal

    May 14th, 2014

    If you have a penis it might get erect and put someone’s eye out. Ban em.

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  18. Allan L

    May 14th, 2014

    Every single day the leftist anti-gun, anti-weapon, lunatics get crazier and crazier.

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  19. Wyatt, Insensitive Progressive Jerk

    May 14th, 2014

    Perhaps the fencing club can compromise with the university and promise to limit the magazines on their epees to 7 rounds or less.

    Yeah, I know that’s stupid – but we are arguing with progs.

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  20. Zonga

    May 14th, 2014

    http://www.ndsu.edu/police_safety/

    Say hello to the slimy little worm

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  21. eternal cracker p

    May 14th, 2014

     
  22. even steven

    May 14th, 2014

    They’re replacing foils with plastic sporks.

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  23. elborba

    May 14th, 2014

    They could replace the swords with styrofoam pool noodles. En Garde!

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  24. JDHasty

    May 15th, 2014

    Ah America, the land of the queer and the home of the unisex whimp.

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