KS: Gun-Phobic Professor Leaves a University Because of Campus Carry

Gun Watch ^ | 8 May, 2017 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

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An associate professor of history and American studies has taken a job at a university in a state that bans concealed carry in its classrooms.

Jacob S. Dorman has taken the occasion  to let us know that restoring the exercise of Second Amendment rights at public institutions is the reason that he has left Kansas University.

From Jacob S. Dorman's open letter:

In light of the state of Kansas’ apparent determination to allow the concealed carry of firearms in the classrooms of the University of Kansas, I am writing to tender my resignation effective two weeks from today as an associate professor of history and American studies at the university. I have accepted a job in a state that bans concealed carry in classrooms.

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 But Kansas will never secure the future that it deserves if it weakens its institutions of higher learning by driving off faculty members or applicants who feel as I do that there is no place for firearms in classrooms. Kansas can have great universities, or it can have concealed carry in classrooms, but it cannot have both.

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Recruiting the best trained professors necessarily means recruiting from coastal areas and progressive college towns where most people do not believe that randomly arming untrained students is a proper exercise of the Second Amendment’s protection of a well-regulated militia.

Professor Dorman has an opinion that guns do not belong in classrooms. It is a strongly held opinion, backed up by research provided by anti-Second Amendment groups such as the Trace, and in the anti-self defense medical journals. There are considerable numbers of research articles on the other side and in criminological journals, that reach the opposite conclusions.

It is fairly easy to find critiques of the research from both sides. I find the side that provides support for the utility of an armed population more convincing. But I am not Professor Dorman.

What I find particularly bizarre is the idea that Kansas will not be able to recruit able professors who are not afraid of an armed population. All of the evidence is exactly the opposite. College campuses are crammed with ideological leftists, exactly in the areas where Professor Dorman taught. In History, liberals outnumber conservatives in academia by 33.5 to 1.

Why are History departments are crammed with leftist intellectuals? It is, in part, because the departments have created courses that are intrinsically leftist. Courses on the histories of gender, race, and class have leftist assumptions built into their definitions.

There are multitudes of History majors with these assumptions clamoring for work in academia. You will not find many conservative historians in academia.  They have been defined out of the picture.

Maybe, just maybe, allowing a little bit of freedom on campus, a slice of actually doing more than paying lip service to the Second Amendment, will increase the possibility of selecting someone other than a doctrinaire leftist as a History professor.  Maybe a tiny bit of intellectual diversity in History will be allowed on the KU campus.

Perhaps we will see a course on slavery. A course which demonstrates how Christianity and Western Civilization expended vast sums of treasure and blood to eradicate the practice. That was a project no other civilization in history attempted.

The replacement of an ideological leftist with someone who may not be is, at least, a theoretical possibility.

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[marktwain]

The professor married a few months ago. His wife accepted a full professorship in Reno, Nevada.

He does not mention any of that. Notice how carefully he does not detail where he is going.

[TigerClaws]

Is he going to shoot a man in Reno?

No mention of the UT concealed carry student who saved lives during the recent black power stabbing incident.

[rlmorel]

Darn. I thought “Gee...how is this bad in any way, getting a libtard professor out of the racket of indoctrinating young, impressionable kids?”

[econjack]

My guess is that, as a history prof, he’s going to have a hard time finding a teaching job unless he worked out some kind of a two-for-one deal in NV.

[JimRed]

Phonies like him are dime-a-dozen in academia.

[KC Burke]

and...

“Recruiting the best trained professors necessarily means recruiting from coastal areas and progressive college towns where most people do not believe that randomly arming untrained students is a proper exercise of the Second Amendment’s protection of a well-regulated militia.”

I would say he is showing the real upside to this legislation in addition to its safety issues.

[Pollster1]

Nevada is a “shall issue” state. Is he sure he wants to move there? I think this snowflake would be happier in Cuba or perhaps Venezuela, where he would be safe from unfamiliar and scary ideas like “freedom”.

[Taxman]

A KU/2A win!

[Yo-Yo]

Associate professors are non-tenure track employees, and his appointment was probably already up anyway.

[vladimir998]

“Kansas can have great universities, or it can have concealed carry in classrooms, but it cannot have both.”

BWA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...

[Nifster]

What a doofus

[marktwain]

He is likely riding his wife’s coattails to a spousal accommodation position in Nevada.

It is a pretty common practice.

[DoodleDawg]

Somehow I don’t think that KU will have a problem replacing a history professor. I imagine they’re a glut on the market.

[dp0622]

Guy’s a famous author:

Chosen People: The Rise of American Black Israelite Religions (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).

https://history.ku.edu/jacob-s-dorman

I didn’t know there was a rise in black Israelite Religions :)

Somebody should ask him what might have been if German Jews were as heavily armed as the US south in the ‘30s.

[Zeppelin]

[FateAmenableToChange]

Associate professors are non-tenure track employees, and his appointment was probably already up anyway.

You may mean adjunct professors, which are never tenure-track (and loved by administrations because they're cheap and can't complain about administrative bloat). The typical tenure track starts at Assistant Professor with an up or out promotion to Associate Professor (with or without tenure), with a later up or out promotion to Associate Professor with tenure if the first promotion did not permit tenure or to Full Professor if the first promotion included tenure.

[Sasparilla]

This knucklehead doesn’t realize that as he stands in line at the grocery store, at the gas station, or walks practically anywhere, that the person next to him can be a licensed handgun carrier.
Liberian is blissful in it’s naivety and ignorance.

[Terry L Smith]

He needs to wear one of those funny twin-peaked pink hats all those women wore!

[Mom MD]

And would likely protect his sorry butt in the case of an attack or active shooter.

[redhead]

Hasta so longa, teach.