Writing in the Hartford Courant, Central Connecticut State history professor Jay Bergman recounts an astounding story. A student was asked to give a presentation on a public-policy controversy of his choice and decided to talk about the right to carry a firearm under the Second Amendment, offering the opinion that if students and faculty members at Virginia Tech had not been disarmed, the killing spree would have taken fewer lives. The professor did not merely disagree with the student, but called the campus police to have him questioned. She thought that the other students in the class might be frightened at hearing such an outrageous opinion.

The campus police, less prone to absurd overreaction than the professor, let the student go after determining that he was not a threat to anyone’s safety.

This event tells you something about the commitment to open dialogue among some professors — they’re against it. Say something that clashes with the warm bath of leftist utopianism and you’d better watch out.