Ban ALL Guns

[KRM59]

I taught school for 13 years after I retired from the USMC. The kids were well aware of how I stood on gun rights; but then it is hard to bring in anti-gun stuff to a Math class.

A fellow teacher and I took two anti-gun administrators to the pistol range and their whole attitude about guns changed.

my coment was ment as a pun on Anti's orginal post about all the people being killed by guns.

 

[Dreamer]

down with all the cars ,,, lmao there killing people !!! please someone take them away. im so scared one will get me.

You may actually be on to something with the cars thing, there, man...

I lived and commuted in the Washington DC area for 15 years in the late 1980s-2000. And even with the rampant gang crime in DC and MD back then, I was actually MORE afraid of the scumbag yuppies whizzing around the Beltway in their $80,000 BMWs that I was of any two-bit thug in the District.

 

[ixtow]

My Car is outfitted with the latest tacticool gadgets:

I have rubber 'silencer' tires fitted to me steel rims. The 'naturally loud' steel rims on concrete made it way to ahrd for me to sneak up on people and run them over. But rubber wears out, so I had to have 'threaded' wheel mounts added for quick and easy replacement.

I have a high-capacity gas tank as well. Sure there's a gas station on every corner and I really have no 'need' for more than a 2 gallon tank. But I like to prowl for hours non-stop.

I have an assault steering wheel. Most cars don't have a steering wheel, there's no need. But I like to swerve up onto the sidewalk and run over crowds of children! Can't do that without a steering wheel, nor can I imagine any other use for a steering wheel. I am one evil bastard for dreaming up that one, eh?

I also have 90 horsepower. Nothing slows me down now. Sure, I only need 30 horsepower to do 70mph on the highway, but that doesn't include the added drag and rolling resistance of all that dried blood, sinew, and random body parts.

Speaking of which, it's really hard to see through that mess without my assault windshield wipers! Sling those guts outta my way, I got more to find!

And no evil devil car would be complete without cup holders for my beer. There is absolutely no way you could ever fit any other kind of beverage into them, it's for alcohol only. You can tell it's exclusively about inducing impaired driving by that fact. Bottled water just won't fit into the same cup holder that a Fosters can will.

Lets not even talk about the muffler, the tow hitch, or the NFA registered headlights used for blinding people so they can't run away.





If you talk out your ass enough, you can come up with an excuse to ban anything.

 

[Don Barnett]

I Realize That...Not All Teachers are Liberals, Like A Lot of People Think!

my coment was ment as a pun on Anti's orginal post about all the people being killed by guns.

I taught at a local Middle School (8th Grade Math and Algebra). I live on a cul-de-sac which has a trail leading to the reservoir; adjacent cul-se-sacs have the same and the trails converge into one big trail. One of my students lives on the next cul-de-sac over; she has a younger sister that was never in my class as she had another Math teacher in 8th Grade.

One day their Mother came up to me to tell me a funny story. She said she had been teaching her girls what they should do if they came home alone and found that the house had been broken into. She questioned them first: Should they go inside, go to a neighbors, what?

The younger girl didn't have much of an answer and mentioned walking up the street to find help.

The girl who I had as a student said: "Not me. I'm going down the trail and then up to Mr. _______'s house. He's well armed and will help us."

She thought it was really funny; but all the kids knew I owned guns and liked the shooting sports.

 

[sultan62]

IMHO, the reason most people believe that teachers/professors/etc. are liberal is because those who are more liberal tend to be the most outspoken. Typically, moderates on both sides and far conservatives tend to try to keep politics out of the classroom, therefore the slant that is most visible is the liberal side. I have had a couple of educators who I know were conservative, but only one was outspoken. The other I got to know outside of class. I have, on the other hand, had multiple outspoken liberal professors. However, the majority of teachers I have had could be either liberal or conservative. In most cases, there is some of each, but as we never get into "hot-button" issues, I am not sure which side of the fence they fall on. For most classes, this is the way it should be.

 

[McX]

Ban Leftist!....no wait were going to be doing that in the upcoming november elections!


added on edit; the politically correct hate being called liberals, back in the day liberal was for everything. so in an attempt to accomodate them, i call them leftists!

 

[Don Barnett]

Math Curriculum Leaves No Room for Politics

IMHO, the reason most people believe that teachers/professors/etc. are liberal is because those who are more liberal tend to be the most outspoken. Typically, moderates on both sides and far conservatives tend to try to keep politics out of the classroom, therefore the slant that is most visible is the liberal side. I have had a couple of educators who I know were conservative, but only one was outspoken. The other I got to know outside of class. I have, on the other hand, had multiple outspoken liberal professors. However, the majority of teachers I have had could be either liberal or conservative. In most cases, there is some of each, but as we never get into "hot-button" issues, I am not sure which side of the fence they fall on. For most classes, this is the way it should be.

I taught Math. The curriculum left no room for politics.

 

[Mr H]

My wife is a teacher in the stanky bowels of Prince George's County, MD... the heart and soul of mindlessly leftist (and usually "unkind") politics in Maryland.

Needless to say, she's not in the mold of most of her colleagues. She's having to learn to hold her tongue a little when the rantings begin, but she's still going to have her say.

If anything rankles her, it's folks who only take one source of "news" (that suits their world view) and call it reality.

I'm not sure if it's a good or bad thing that she's known to the staff as the teacher who has a gun and knows how to use it (although... there are a couple of ex-military there who are happy to back her)!

 

[von buck]

IMHO, the reason most people believe that teachers/professors/etc. are liberal is because those who are more liberal tend to be the most outspoken. Typically, moderates on both sides and far conservatives tend to try to keep politics out of the classroom, therefore the slant that is most visible is the liberal side.....

I'm new to the academic employment world, and need to be quiet about my conservative beliefs, especially if I want to advance in my career. My girlfriend is also, and has to bite her lip at work functions, or also lose out on promotions.

Ange

 

[eye95]

I taught Math. The curriculum left no room for politics.

I taught math. For those who believe that there is no intersection between math and politics, two words: Laffer Curve.

Math is ubiquitous. I never tried to bring up politics in math class, but it just comes up sometimes.

 

[Mr H]

I'm new to the academic employment world, and need to be quiet about my conservative beliefs, especially if I want to advance in my career. My girlfriend is also, and has to bite her lip at work functions, or also lose out on promotions.

Ange

Welcome to posting on OCDO...

Maybe soon we can welcome your employers to America.

 

[kjzmysl]

Be realistic

Ban handguns in the USA
We don't need to possess handguns to be safe. People are being killed everyday because someone was allowed to own a handgun. It really shouldn't be that way. That is why I support a handgun ban, and am for stricter gun control laws. Only people in jobs that require handguns should have them (police, military, etc). It is their job to protect us, not ours.

C'mon. So where are the police and military to protect the people if people are getting killed everyday? Odd, the police haven't been able to stop murders committed by knives, or baseball bats, or fists, or anything else. Next, it is our Constitutional RIGHT. Third, more children die in swimming pools than from guns - banish swimming pools first. Your position on banning guns is adolescent.

 

[since9]

Well, if we ban ALL guns (and could somehow impossibly make it stick), we'd then have to ban all knives, rocks, sticks...

The use of my firearms isn't limited to two-leggers. I carry it in defense against cougar, bear, elk, and moose.

Nor is it limited to defending myself against someone armed with a gun. I'd gladly use it to defend myself against someone armed with a rock, or even just their fists.

 

[Butch00]

mcdonalk wrote:



whoa, now mcdonalk, there are a lot of people that would disagree with you on that,

but also the terminology would be different too. There is the right of free transpor-

tation. Although, i'm trying to get my mind around the idea myself. Apparently there

have been SCOTUS cases about it too, verifying that.

Didn't mean to steal the thread.

Driving is a privilege because it is Commercial, you have the Right to travel in America without a license.
Want to know more pm me.

 

[eye95]

Driving is a privilege because it is Commercial, you have the Right to travel in America without a license.
Want to know more pm me.

One could argue that there is an unenumerated right to travel. However, that right does not automatically extend to operating a ton of machinery on publicly-owned highways at high speeds. That is a privilege which is (and should be) heavily regulated and licensed.

 

[KansasMustang]

rscottie wrote:
Close, but Not quite, there RScottie. But in all seriousness and hypothetical thinking, you say that if a VA tech student were to have had a gun, or a collumbine teacher were to have had a gun (because rglary where tourists frequent.

My point was not to make fun or incite anger in the gun community, but as a troll - yes, a troll who has been looking at a few posts for a while, I wanted to see your real reactions to someone who has a, however naive and probably impossible thought and hope for a world without guns and violent crime. But, as America grew up with guns, was won by civilians using guns, and still protects many gun owners' rights, I'm sure me and mine will be forever stuck ******* in the wind and screwing with gun forums.

I spent two years in South Korea, Republic of,,,and there it's true,,only the Para-Military and Military have weapons, oh and yeah, the Korean Mafia, and yes it's true they have one. And guess what? the Korean Government officials and Police are as corrupt as they come, and yeah there are murders all the time from the BG sector. mostly they use knives but occasionally the BG's will have a turf war. Sp your argument about THAT is all blasted out. Next stupid comments from you??? I'll just bet you voted for Barack Hussein Obama dincha lil guy? Oh you're so cute sittin in momma's basement in your underwear reading the Communist Manifesto and dreaming of Utopia. Now read my quote from Thomas Jefferson, yeah even in 1776 and before they understood,,,dipstick

 

[SouthernBoy]

I spent two years in South Korea, Republic of,,,and there it's true,,only the Para-Military and Military have weapons, oh and yeah, the Korean Mafia, and yes it's true they have one. And guess what? the Korean Government officials and Police are as corrupt as they come, and yeah there are murders all the time from the BG sector. mostly they use knives but occasionally the BG's will have a turf war. Sp your argument about THAT is all blasted out. Next stupid comments from you??? I'll just bet you voted for Barack Hussein Obama dincha lil guy? Oh you're so cute sittin in momma's basement in your underwear reading the Communist Manifesto and dreaming of Utopia. Now read my quote from Thomas Jefferson, yeah even in 1776 and before they understood,,,dipstick

The thing that never ceases to both amaze me and leave me stupefied is that fact that people like this desperately and deliberately chose to ignore history. What they just can't seem to get through their heads is human nature has not changed in eons... and it most likely never will. There will always be evil people who, given the opportunity, are perfectly willing and capable of doing very evil things.

Anyone who puts their faith and trust in any government is not only an unknowing pawn, but a fool. And evil does not suffer fools.

Your hero, Thomas Jefferson, is also one of my heroes. He knew that the only thing that will keep a government in check is its fear of the people. Nothing else will work.

 

[USMC1986]

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
-Vladimir Lenin

So what happens when your government becomes corrupt?

 

[onalandline]

Ban handguns in the USA
We don't need to possess handguns to be safe. People are being killed everyday because someone was allowed to own a handgun. It really shouldn't be that way. That is why I support a handgun ban, and am for stricter gun control laws. Only people in jobs that require handguns should have them (police, military, etc). It is their job to protect us, not ours.

Do you really think that banning guns will keep them out of the hands of criminals?

 

[KS_to_CA]

Wow, five pages of response on this thread. Wow.

Well, here's my take. I would believe anti means what he/she posted if I see a picture of his/her house with a big sign saying,

"I have no gun and don't intend to get one".