[2ndDivisionVet]

Tom H. Hastings teaches in the Portland State University Conflict Resolution MA/MS program. He directs PeaceVoice, a program of the Oregon Peace Institute. His books include: Hundred thoughts on nonviolence (in press); The lessons of nonviolence (2006); Power (2005), Nonviolent response to terrorism (2004); Meek t weak: Nonviolent power and people of color (2002); and Ecology of war and peace: Counting costs of conflict (2000). With Seattle writer Geov Parrish, he wrote the 2002 War Resisters League calendar datebook, 52 true stories of nonviolent success.

He is a nonviolent peace, justice and environmental activist, a Plowshares nonviolent veteran of three prisons and has done nonviolence trainings for more than 30 years across the US. He is a past chair and current board member of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, and on the Board of Directors of the Oregon Peace Institute. He is on the Governing Council of the International Peace Research Association and on the Board of Directors of the International Peace Research Association Foundation. He is on the Academic Advisory Council of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. He lives in the Portland Catholic Worker community Whitefeather House, and hikes and bikes for fun (transportain andhe owns no automobile).

hastings@pdx.edu

[blackdog]

What a complete moron, funded by our tax dollars.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

BULLCRAP.

:D

Sorry excuse the language.

[ransacked]

Guns are a big part of what freedom we have left. They built this country, and, brought us our freedom in the first place.

[meyer]

Hastings needs his butt kicked. :)

[Haiku Guy]

It is rare to find somebody who is wrong about everything, at every level.

But when you do, that person is likely to be a Peace Voice Director teaching Conflict Resolution Studies at a university.

[GreenAccord]

It would make for a nice piece of fiction: a book about a post-2A repeal United States where the government battles its armed citizenry, prying gun after gun from cold hands, until there are no longer any armed authorities left prying guns.

[immadashell]

History is rife with evidence that when guns are removed from the hands of private citizens death by government is sure to follow.

[Drango]

nice pony tail dude.

[exnavy]

Come and get ‘em Tommie boy.

[JRandomFreeper]

The problem he has is that the technology is 1600s tech.

I have enough scrap in my scrap pile, and enough tools to outfit a small medieval army, if I have enough time, or a couple of helpers.

/johnny

[Fresh Wind]

What a truly creepy individual.

[Wingy]

So this guy thinks that all will be nirvana if we repeal the second amendment. Why doesn't he immigrate to any of the many nations that don't have that particular freedom. He could write his drivel and teach his courses in peace and all will be right in his world.

In mine too.

[rawcatslyentist]

>"Tom H. Hastings is PeaceVoice Director and teaches in the Conflict Resolution program at Portland State University in Oregon."

He's also zombie proof as all his brains have been replaced by noodles.

[jughandle]

Replace “Second” with “First” there professor...countless feelings are hurt daily by spoken words. What’s the matter, you don’t care about people’s feelings? What kind of awful human are you...

[rlmorel]

He is one of those liberals that thinks we can eliminate all violence in the world by eliminating Poverty, Ignorance, and Disease. This is from a random article he has his authorship attached to:

"...The people in ISIL are not a “cancer,” as President Obama claims. The massive and multifaceted global public health problem is violence, which shares characteristics with many diseases, such as cancer, meth addiction, the Black Death and Ebola. Violence is the disease, not the cure. This metaphor applies to the violence committed by ISIL and the US alike. Both claim to be using violence to eliminate injustice. Both ISIL and the US dehumanize entire swaths of people in order to justify that violence. Much like drug addicts, both armed groups alienate and indiscriminately harm others while claiming it’s in everyone’s best interest..."

Like many committed liberals, he believes there are no "bad" people, only people who have been forced to do things against their wills by bad environments or circumstances. That is why the Nazis carted away people like him by the trainload, because he is blind to the simple fact that evil does exist, and a person doesn't need to be poor, ignorant, or diseased to be evil.

I suspect if one of these ISIL thugs was holding his ponytail up in the air while holding a dull, rusty knife to Hasting's throat, he might well think his best defense is what would come naturally to liberals like him, to declare he is on their side, which he is. And they might view him, accurately, as a useful idiot. But they would always see him as a westerner and an infidel first.

[Vaquero]

This thread required a MEGA BARF alert.

[TonyM]

Yes, this freedom thing is such an outdated idea.

[the_Watchman]

So by his argument, the first amendment should also be left up to the states?

[noinfringers2]

Something about the looks of the guy that tells me he is not a truly peace person, more like an old fashioned agitator. With his take and give on what others should accept he is a Himmler waiting to come out.

[Caipirabob]

Tom, it’s time to have that talk with your doctor about “Low T”...