National Carry AcademyCarrying A Gun Is Dangerous
June 13, 2016
Lisa Moore, and an English professor at the University of Texas founded the group Gun Free UT recently when the campus carry bill was signed into law in Texas.
Lisa seems to be under a grave misinterpretation that anyone who carries a weapon will snap at any time, whatever the cause of action. From a few past incidents she has encountered in her own classroom, she states that had one of the students has been carrying a weapon, things would surely have turned out much worse.
The exhibit A.
“I teach both gay and lesbian studies, when I first got here in the early 90s, on the ground floor of the English building, I had an office there. I had a lot of posters up advocating gay rights. One day, someone broke into my office, burned the posters and then wrote all over the windows, depravity kills. For me, it was scary enough to know that someone was willing to commit a serious act of vandalism. Were it the case that someone could bring a gun into my office during my work, I think, I wouldn’t have been able to do my job.”
I’m sure you are under the strong impression that the law-abiding weapon carrier does not commit B&E or arson. Why? Because they are law-abiding. This is one of the most common arguments on the fun side of gun control. We’ll snap at any chance we get. If everyone disagrees with you, Bang! If everyone gets into an argument with you, Blam! Yes, it’s idiotic and downright insulting, my personal record of violence against others is zero, that’s not going to change. So, if I’m in your class and a man carrying a gun comes through the door, then I was a threat to that person. See how this works, Moore?
The exhibit B.
In 2008, in the semester after the Virginia Tech shootings, I was teaching an LGBT literature class. One of my students believed that gay people were going to hell. After thinking about it, I guess as a kind of protest, he started coming to class and lying on the floor. That student also started posting things online about not doing the reading, he would stop other students from doing the reading. Of course, I got nervous and went to my supervisor. As it turned out this student had problems with mental illness, and he had in the past, been taken out of other classes. He was removed from my class, I wound up teaching the rest of the semester in an undisclosed place, with an armed guard stationed.
Though I cannot give a comment on the degree of mental illness this student may have had, the discussion is legally armed students on campus, that’s really it. Some people always perform demonstrations and others cause a stir for whatever reason, but it doesn’t mean that a person is going to start shooting everyone and they mean any harm whatsoever to others.
If you ask me, it’s more paranoia and less gun control. The first sign of anything out of the ordinary, the society is now flipping and switching. They are surely going from 0 to 60 anytime, it’s a place where each and every one is a suspect, that’s why many people are up to no good.
Okay, don’t get me wrong. Being vigilant and keep a watchful eye on the things happening around you is great, however, to imply that law-abiding gun owners are going to kill or harm to students sitting in a classroom is completely absurd.
Recently, we just witnessed a student carrying a concealed gun in the vicinity of the recent University shooting in Oregon. He surely did not intervene, he wasn’t on the campus to commit murder, though he was carrying a weapon.
That student is a good guy, as most are.
Carrying A Gun Is Dangerous
June 13, 2016
Lisa Moore, and an English professor at the University of Texas founded the group Gun Free UT recently when the campus carry bill was signed into law in Texas.
Lisa seems to be under a grave misinterpretation that anyone who carries a weapon will snap at any time, whatever the cause of action. From a few past incidents she has encountered in her own classroom, she states that had one of the students has been carrying a weapon, things would surely have turned out much worse.
The exhibit A.
“I teach both gay and lesbian studies, when I first got here in the early 90s, on the ground floor of the English building, I had an office there. I had a lot of posters up advocating gay rights. One day, someone broke into my office, burned the posters and then wrote all over the windows, depravity kills. For me, it was scary enough to know that someone was willing to commit a serious act of vandalism. Were it the case that someone could bring a gun into my office during my work, I think, I wouldn’t have been able to do my job.”
I’m sure you are under the strong impression that the law-abiding weapon carrier does not commit B&E or arson. Why? Because they are law-abiding. This is one of the most common arguments on the fun side of gun control. We’ll snap at any chance we get. If everyone disagrees with you, Bang! If everyone gets into an argument with you, Blam! Yes, it’s idiotic and downright insulting, my personal record of violence against others is zero, that’s not going to change. So, if I’m in your class and a man carrying a gun comes through the door, then I was a threat to that person. See how this works, Moore?
The exhibit B.
In 2008, in the semester after the Virginia Tech shootings, I was teaching an LGBT literature class. One of my students believed that gay people were going to hell. After thinking about it, I guess as a kind of protest, he started coming to class and lying on the floor. That student also started posting things online about not doing the reading, he would stop other students from doing the reading. Of course, I got nervous and went to my supervisor. As it turned out this student had problems with mental illness, and he had in the past, been taken out of other classes. He was removed from my class, I wound up teaching the rest of the semester in an undisclosed place, with an armed guard stationed.
Though I cannot give a comment on the degree of mental illness this student may have had, the discussion is legally armed students on campus, that’s really it. Some people always perform demonstrations and others cause a stir for whatever reason, but it doesn’t mean that a person is going to start shooting everyone and they mean any harm whatsoever to others.
If you ask me, it’s more paranoia and less gun control. The first sign of anything out of the ordinary, the society is now flipping and switching. They are surely going from 0 to 60 anytime, it’s a place where each and every one is a suspect, that’s why many people are up to no good.
Okay, don’t get me wrong. Being vigilant and keep a watchful eye on the things happening around you is great, however, to imply that law-abiding gun owners are going to kill or harm to students sitting in a classroom is completely absurd.
Recently, we just witnessed a student carrying a concealed gun in the vicinity of the recent University shooting in Oregon. He surely did not intervene, he wasn’t on the campus to commit murder, though he was carrying a weapon.
That student is a good guy, as most are.