Earl Thompson. As you can see he is a bit kooky but his class was entertaining. His solution to everything was literally "tax it."
Earl Thompson. As you can see he is a bit kooky but his class was entertaining. His solution to everything was literally "tax it."
KoolAidKid
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It takes two to debate. If you really believed in this sentiment you would not have participated in this discussion.
zinfamous
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Originally posted by: jemcam
You crack me up dude. Are you serious???????
according to the OP, the professor said do something about gun control. relax it, restrict it...what? message implied, but not specified. I love how the gun folks jump into this withought considering the message (for your info--I'm not a ban guns type of person)
Have you been to college? Plenty of conservative-minded professors. The ones with morals however..well, they tend to be liberal. I'll admit that
LMAO, I knew that was who you were going to post. I had him too. The guy was crazy. I remember him staring off into the middle of the class for like 10 minutes without saying a word. Just staring.
Vic
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That's irrelevant, cops always arrive after the fact. If you have ever been in a violent situation, the most shocking thing is how quickly it occurs. Literally, BAM! and it's over. That is to many people the hardest part to deal with in the psychological aftermath. The frailty of the human body is, quite frankly, astonishingly and alarmingly pathetic.
Next, the argument of a 100% armed society is a straw men. Typical of the bipolarization of internet discussions, I am aware, that the argument should devolve into either 100% armed or "ban all guns, illegal or otherwise," but neither extremist argument has any foundation in reality. See my argument earlier in this thread against the callous stupidity of the knee-jerking "simple solution" crowds.
Oh BTW, about the "conservative talking points." My 74 year-old father is a life-long liberal and Democrat who walks with a limp he leans so far to the left. At the same time, he's a CCW holder and carries most everywhere he goes. The issue of gun rights is NOT bipartisan (except, of course, to the usual partisan sheep arguing straw men on the internet... ).
Umm, universities are also filled with professors that have conservative agendas... I ran into quite a few that docked grades because of it.
I couldn't take anything away from that comment.
My first impression is that the professor wanted to reduce gun control. People who want to increase gun control normally don't talk about it like that in my experience.
He/she probably left it ambiguous for a reason.
My first impression is that the professor wanted to reduce gun control. People who want to increase gun control normally don't talk about it like that in my experience.
He/she probably left it ambiguous for a reason.
It's funny because my strictly republican father's first response to the incident was to talk about how we need gun control. People here live in some warped world where only "liberals" think one way and conservatives never ever do. Everything is clear cut and no one thinks for themselves regardless of political parties. All professors have "liberal agendas", whatever that means, etc.
They try to stereotype everything into black and white so they could bash everyone who disagrees with them by calling them the enemy, in this case "liberals."
OutHouse
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my company is working on that. well more like GPS implants.
EDIT: i hope my sheriffs office calls me soon about my CC permit. i firmly believe a well armed society is a polite society. If a few of the students or professors at VT had CC permit many lives would have been saved. Madmen like the shooter are cowards and do not want to risk getting in a gunfight, their only aim is to kill as many "sheep" as they can before they eat their own bullet.
The 2nd amendment was made at a time where police didn't exist, alarm systems connected to call centers didn't exist, and 911 didn't exist. The only way to protect yourself was with a gun. Things have changed. No need to have a gun anymore for protection.
""People who want to take this event 24 hours afterwards and make this their political hobbyhorse, I've got nothing but loathing for them."
"
Gunslinger08
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I know exactly why it exists. It protects you from being fired for saying stupid sh!t like this. "Academic freedom" my ass. Idiotic, misinformed political ass-spouting is more like it.
Yes that example is extreme but it has some merit. Knowing who to shoot is the hardest part. It's easy with 1 bad guy 1 good guy, but what if multiple people have guns and want to stop the bag guy. How are 4 or 5 good guys going to know not to shoot the other good guys? The criminal/shooter isn't going to always be wearing a ski mask, he could look just like anyone else, and in that situation, how will you know which out of the 4 or 5 people is the real bad guy? What if you take out the wrong one? What if someone takes you out because he thinks you're the original shooter.
Gunslinger08
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You're an idiot. The 2nd amendment was made to protect the people from a tyrannical government.. like the ones we escaped from when we came to the "new world." Against a tyrannical government using the military against it's own citizens, how do we defend ourselves and our liberties without guns?
zinfamous
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I never advocated for one extreme solution on either side, either.
Cops' involvement aside, you didn't address teh situation in which all customers in a store bring robbed, now draw their guns when the threat is obvious. Those that run form one side of the store into the situation have no idea who the actual criminal is, neither do the majority of those in teh immediate vicinity. I'm sure the natural reaction would be to aim for the armed black dude, or latino, or what have you.
Either way, it's still a rational argument for why that extreme side of the argument is not valid.
Vic
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Please don't show off your amazing powers of stupidity again. I was clearly NOT making this my "political hobbyhorse," and was condemning the arguments of the asshats (like yourself now) who were clearly trying to make this tragedy their political hobbyhorse.
But obviously, people like yourself with illogical arguments require the crutch of false dilemma in order to distract from just how poor your argument are. You need to make the entire issue into nothing but 2 exteme polarized illogical arguments. Thanks for admitting that to us.
zinfamous
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The intent of the 2nd amendment was for citizens to be able to protect and defend themselves against a tyrannical governemnt that infringes on its rights as guaranteed by the constitution (the colonists were not allowed to own guns by the crown, this was a protection guaranteed for citizens should the need arise in the future)
The spirit and intent of the amendment is sound; unfortunately it is largely ignored and misunderstood.
SarcasticDwarf
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No, the second ammendment was created at a time when a people had left a country increasingly denying the right to bear arms and decided that they did not want that to happen again. Police existed at that time. Heck, pretty much every hoursehold had a gun at that time. 911 calls centers, cell phones, and alarm systems are meaningless in most cases. It takes at least three minutes to respond to a call. What happens in three minutes? Is the guy waiting around for them to show up?
Can't we just put all the koreans in a camp somewhere and concentrate them to one spot. That might stop something like this from happening again.
If we had done this for the Arabs 5 years ago, the Koreans might never have started their uprising.
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