Keegan Blackler is a junior majoring in English with a Creative Writing concentration.

Violence is fun.

Before you saddle up and mount your purebred high horse of indignity, consider this: science has proven objectively that the funniest thing in the universe is somebody getting hit in the nuts, perhaps by a football or a 777 jumbo jet.

As any guy will tell you, however, a crotch-whammy is a horrifically violent, painful act from which it can take centuries to recover. Likewise, a montage of nut shots might be construed as "insensitive" to those who have been on the receiving end of that sadism-tipped boot.

Now that we have established that fun and insensitivity are simultaneously inherent to violence, let us move on to the primary argument of this column: Bekah Grim needs to stop talking smack, because there's nothing wrong with playing with Nerf guns on campus.

In case you have no idea what I'm rambling on about this time, go find your archived copy of last week's issue of The Falcon-you are archiving them, right?-and take a look at Grim's subtly-titled article, "On-campus games are insensitive."

Grim takes a stand against the playing of games such as "Mafia" and "Assassin" here on campus. To be fair to Grim, she is "not arguing whether these assassination games are right or wrong, or even that they should never be played." She's "simply questioning if they are appropriate on campus" in light of recent campus shootings.

Honestly speaking, of course it isn't. Except Grim forgets one major necessary component of these games: everybody is a willing participant. Nobody's pretending to just "kill other students." They're pretending to kill other students who are also pretending to be mafia hit men or ninja assassins. Everybody has agreed to the terms. So, while it may be pseudo-violent fun, it's not violating fun.

Basically, what I'm saying is that anything can be in bad taste if you want it to be, regardless of how recent or how tragic the similar real-life event was.

I ask you, who are we really worried about being insensitive to: victims of school shootings or people here on campus and their fears of it happening again?

I thought you might say that, but the hyper-sensitive people and their fears will just have to get over it. Not only is this the players' campus but it's also their home, and their right to play here far outweighs anybody's right to be offended.

To tell the truth, no one even has the right to be offended, and wherever that idea came from is a stupid, stupid place. You do, however, have the right to walk away if you see something you think is in bad taste.

Frankly, I'm hard pressed to even think of a better, safer place for these games to be played. I spoke with Grim not long ago and during that conversation she suggested that perhaps the games could be taken to Gasworks or some other public park. This sounds like the ravings of a lunatic who should probably be locked up for her own safety.

I mean, if students here on campus-who know these guys are only playing a game-are so prepared to freak out, how do you think random strangers in the middle of a public park are going to react? Negatively, perchance? On top of that, making the game a scheduled event that everyone has to relocate to play takes all of the fun out of it, which derives from the "sneaking and scheming around campus with pretend guns."

Remember, this is an argument about location, not whether these games should be played at all. (If that were the case, this entire article would consist of the words, "It's a guy thing. Shut up and go away.") The fact is, playing here on campus is the best option, and if you don't like it, well, why don't you go write a newspaper article whining about it?

Have a good spring break, everybody, and try not to get alcohol poisoning.