banned the Musketeer’s musket<\/a> from Camp Randall Stadium.<\/p>\nThe school was quick to assert it was just a matter of following “policy” against “weapons” in the stadium. Though the athletic department made it clear that they just thought the whole musket thing was, well, wrong<\/i>. “We don’t need a gun going off in front of 80,000 people,” said the Wisconsin associate athletic director.<\/p>\n
Right. After all, probably only 60,000 of those folks voted for a 1998 state constitutional amendment, asserting that “the people have the right to keep and bear arms for security, defense, hunting, recreation or any other lawful purpose.”<\/p>\n
And after all, it’s not like the stadium wasn’t named after an old Civil War training camp. Oh, wait … it was.<\/p>\n
Maybe it was considering that — or considering that they were being made a laughingstock on ESPN — which led to the Wisonsin folks backing down. This time, at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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