Reason vs. Guns and the Denial of Global Warming

Inside Higher Education ^ | October 12, 2015 | Professor Steve Wolverton, UNT

[Little Ray]

I hate to think that this man is corrupting and polluting the minds of his students.

[arthurus]

In this "man's" class or coming through the door there might also be a fanatic something- maybe even a fanatic climate-denier- with several guns to shoot the prof and some of his students. If there is someone in his class with a CCW and a FEG 9mm that fanatic might only get off a couple of shots before the raid is ended. Perhaps the prof's life would be thus saved or revenge got immediately for the prof's death.

Actually such a prof, and an old acquaintance of mine is a prof at UF so I am familiar with the phenomenon, actually thinks it is better that such a fanatic kill a dozen students and the prof, himself, than that someone in his classroom be armed.

The operant theory, at least in a portion of the professorial left, is that the fanatic is insane and thus not responsible for his actions thus there is no fault in him. The sane person who aborts the crazy guy's actions is a murderer because he consciously and reasonably killed someone he disagreed with. The nutjob is deserving only of care and understanding and therapy. The murderer is to be feared because he is rational when he kills. Ultimately the liberal identifies with the lunatic and can seem himself being a lunatic and being killed by a rational person but cannot identify with and thus fears the rational actor.

[chesley]

As much as envy, I think that fear drives the liberal “mind”-set.

Could be because of their unacknowledged, and justified, inferiority complexes. :)

[Bigg Red]

Exactly. What a girly man.

[LoneStar42]

Further evidence that an abundance of words proves absence of critical thinking.

[Raycpa]

Very interesting. Thanks for that. I would never in a million years get there on my own.

[abclily]

OK!! Everybody pay attention!

Lesson for today:

1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.

2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.

3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.

4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.

5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.

Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?

[Darren McCarty]

Once you disregard the scientific method, you are no longer a scientist.

[MileHi]

This guy is a nut.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Their “solution” to globull warming is to impoverish the US and give all our money and resources to turd world tinpot dictators.

Why shouldn’t we be on board?/sarc

[Blood of Tyrants]

I live in the free state of Tennessee. Saturday I walked into a gun store and 30 minutes later (after the mandatory background check) I walked out with two AR-15 lowers. Now to decide how to build them. Choices, choices....

[Billthedrill]

An anthropologist teaching "earth science" and complaining about academic rigor? Please. This one isn't any better than that pathetic Sierra Club drone that Cruz eviscerated last week, clinging to the "97%" mantra as if science were a popularity contest.

As for the quaint notion that some licensed firearms owner is going to shoot him for the crime of being stupid, it hasn't happened yet. All - ALL - of the calls for violence on the issue have come from the Professor's side, the demonstrations, the shout-downs, the petitions for criminal prosecution for dissenters. All of them.