College professor told me all guns should be illegal and nobody should be allowed to own one

Also, this was a trigonometry class and right in the middle of his math lecture

is your imaginary girlfriend also in this imaginary class?

I would respond with this:

"Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment."- Huey Newton

Is this the same college professor who told you Kanye West was one of the greatest musical artists of all time?

I mean it's not surprising I'm in college right now myself and I have heard of people getting this level of extremism. My girlfriend had a professor who cried in class WITH the students about Trump getting elected. This same fully grown adult woman would give bad grades to conservative students, and she also talked about how all guns do is kill people and should be banned. Fast forward 1 year my girlfriend had a teacher who said that she knows that soon the gender binary will no longer be a thing. Campus' are way to liberal now-a-days. An example of how much students don't like guns on campuses is a man had a scheduled visit to our campus with an open carry rifle on his back, and people were absolutely terrified, thought that since he had a gun he was going to hurt them even though he was sitting there having nice conversations with the schools police.

To answer your second question, most people who are teachers/professors lean to the left. This has been the case for a while in upper-level academia. In today's world, being a loud outspoken liberal will get you cheered on while being a patriotic conservative can literally lose you your job. Since conservative viewpoints aren't tolerated on campus, that might be the reason why you don't hear about teachers espousing such beliefs on campus. It would be suicidal career/well-being wise. But in your case, since your teacher clearly has a left leaning, her ranting on politics is allowed.

So this is college in 2018 wrote:

So my college professor gave a big anti gun rant on Friday. He said nobody should be allowed to own a gun if any kind. Even revolvers. He said guns are the biggest problem in the usa and they need to be permanently banned and this is the main reason why we are one of the worst countries in the world to live in.

Thoughts? Do colleges intentionally search for teachers like this?

That is an extreme position and not one that most liberals have. I am a liberal, and I believe we should have the right to bear arms. The tradition of gun ownership is too long and strong in this country,a nd it is one of the the things that America was founded on.

If you have ever driven across the country or through very rural areas of our country where you see farm houses that are a mile apart or more with police and other law enforcement officials even further away, then you understand the need for firearms. I am even ok with it in urban areas, but out in the sticks, it is really apparent that the need is real.

People should be able to own guns to hunt, for sport shooting, and for self protection.

REASONABLE RESTRICTIONS

1) I believe we don't need ordinary US citizens to own automatic weapons of any kind or be able to purchase add-ons that can turn a weapon into an automatic weapon. And, if you are one of those people who likes to argue that there really isn't any difference between an automatic weapon and a semi-automatic weapon, then my answer to that is to ban semi-automatic weapons too, NOT to then just allow automatic weapons.

2) I don't believe we need ordinary citizens to be able to purchase bullet-proof vests or body armor.

3) I believe life in prison should be the minimum penalty for committing any crime with a firearm. One and done.

4) I don't believe what many gun owners believe, and that is that we should own guns to prevent the government from oppressing us. At this point, the government has tanks and missiles and all kinds of weaponry at its disposal, so that is a silly thing to want or say. And NO, I don't believe we should all be allowed to have the same weaponry as the United States government.

So...rifles, shotguns, pistols of all shapes and sizes as long as nothing is automatic along with the severe punishment I mentioned above for any commission of a crime with a firearm.

Ezekiel bread wrote:

I would respond with this:

"Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment."- Huey Newton

I thought that was Huey Lewis?

My professor is a male. But you story about the man having a nice little rifle on his back and it making the students go crazy is sickening, yet not surprising.

Young people are now protesting to have their civil and constitutional rights taken away. Makes me physically ill.

Nice story. My professor carries a concealed gun. Hopefully he never has to shoot a student.

I mean I’ve spent 9 years in school. 4 at a very liberal UC (university of CA system). 2 at a private Christian school. And 2 more at a different very liberal UC and only once has any professor talked politics.

That one time was this: protestors entered the classroom banging trash cans and the professor yelled at them to leave. Afterwards she told us she supports protests and even participated in the march on Washington and other women’s rights marches back in her day but she thinks it’s incredibly disrespectful to disrupt a class people are paying for.

Flagpole wrote:

So this is college in 2018 wrote:

So my college professor gave a big anti gun rant on Friday. He said nobody should be allowed to own a gun if any kind. Even revolvers. He said guns are the biggest problem in the usa and they need to be permanently banned and this is the main reason why we are one of the worst countries in the world to live in.

Thoughts? Do colleges intentionally search for teachers like this?

That is an extreme position and not one that most liberals have. I am a liberal, and I believe we should have the right to bear arms. The tradition of gun ownership is too long and strong in this country, and it is one of the the things that America was founded on.

That is not an extreme position to the left. I live in Boulder and most people I know take that position on guns.

You tell that commie pinko that the 2nd amendment protects the first.

It is also the European view on guns.

School shootings are extremely rare over there.

well actually wrote:

Flagpole wrote:

That is an extreme position and not one that most liberals have. I am a liberal, and I believe we should have the right to bear arms. The tradition of gun ownership is too long and strong in this country, and it is one of the the things that America was founded on.

That is not an extreme position to the left. I live in Boulder and most people I know take that position on guns.

It is extreme in that voters would not pass such a law banning all guns, and it wouldn't be just because of conservatives. More than half of all Democrats believe gun ownership should be allowed. Democrats typically just want stricter gun laws. The people you know have a minority opinion.

Murrrrrica wrote:

You tell that commie pinko that the 2nd amendment protects the first.

How does the Second Amendment stop the government from dropping a cruise missile or a nuclear bomb on me? Don't I need to be able to have a nuclear weapon of my own so the government is afraid of taking my rights away?

So this is college in 2018 wrote:

So my college professor gave a big anti gun rant on Friday. He said nobody should be allowed to own a gun if any kind. Even revolvers. He said guns are the biggest problem in the usa and they need to be permanently banned and this is the main reason why we are one of the worst countries in the world to live in.

Thoughts? Do colleges intentionally search for teachers like this?

Even revolvers?

They are safe even around toddlers as long as the safety catch us on.

It's right what they say about Americans.

Flagpole wrote:

well actually wrote:

That is not an extreme position to the left. I live in Boulder and most people I know take that position on guns.

It is extreme in that voters would not pass such a law banning all guns, and it wouldn't be just because of conservatives. More than half of all Democrats believe gun ownership should be allowed. Democrats typically just want stricter gun laws. The people you know have a minority opinion.

The last two steps to repeal the 2nd Amendment are the hardest. It has to be ratified by 67% of the states and then someone has to come for the guns.

Flagpole wrote:

well actually wrote:

That is not an extreme position to the left. I live in Boulder and most people I know take that position on guns.

It is extreme in that voters would not pass such a law banning all guns, and it wouldn't be just because of conservatives. More than half of all Democrats believe gun ownership should be allowed. Democrats typically just want stricter gun laws. The people you know have a minority opinion.

You sound like a socialist, flagpole willy.

Combining guns and (liberal) professor is creative trolling. You earn points for drawing serious responses. Minor deduction for degree of difficulty in getting serious response from Flagpole.