“This post is my appreciation toward the United States and the (privilege) in this country to have the right to bear arms, to have a populace that can defend itself from tyranny,” Tong continued. “Tiananmen Incident is a huge deal in my motherland and to my ethnicity, and so is civil rights in America, but this post is solely my belief that freedom comes from a strong and armed populace. Violence against any citizen should not be tolerated, and the Second Amendment protects us from that.”
AFTER POSTING AN IMAGE HOLDING A LEGALLY PURCHASED AR-15, AUSTIN TONG FACED DRACONIAN SANCTIONS FROM FORDHAM UNIVERSITY, PROMPTING THE STUDENT TO SUE.
This story is one quickly making national headlines, one illuminating alleged discrimination against a student by a private university. This is the story of Austin Tong, a student at New York’s Fordham University. After Tong posted a couple of images on Instagram, including one of himself holding an AR-15, and the school imposed swift punishment on the student.
Tong first posted an image on June 3 of retired police captain David Dorn, a Black man slain during looting in St. Louis. Tong posted his picture, with the caption “Y’all a bunch of hypocrites.” Of course that caption represents conservative thinking. It questions the Black Lives Matter movement in relation to widespread violence and looting. It supports law enforcement. Basically, it doesn’t fit the current popular narrative. So evidently that became strike one against Tong.
Strike two came the following day, when Tong posted a picture of himself holding a S&W M&P15. The caption read, “Don’t tread on me. #198964.” That’s when the university’s student population apparently went bonkers.
By PERSONAL DEFENSE WORLD
