[Ol' Dan Tucker]

According to the article, she was holding a rifle that was pointed at the camera. Do you know something else that we don't?

Nope. Like I said, she wasn't just holding it.

Was this a harmless photo, too?

[2ndDivisionVet]

So Miss Betsy Ramsdale doesn’t have the same 2nd Amendment rights that you and I have because of her occupation? Interesting theory.

[Richard Kimball]

didn’t hurt me.

[BobbyT]

I guess you need to inform the 100,000,000 or so Americans in this country who’ve pointed guns at things that it’s somehow equivalent to showing up on campus with a death wish and unloading on a bunch of disarmed students.

And you better hurry, since many of them are going so far as to FIRE them! And then, after checking to see how their aim is progressing, doing it AGAIN!

[familyop]

"Nope. Like I said, she wasn't just holding it.

Was this a harmless photo, too?"

I see at least two logical fallacies in your argument. And yes, the photo itself was harmless and hasn't physically injured any viewers. People post all kinds of photos in efforts to make all kinds of jokes and artistic/political points. Nearly all of the people posing in Internet images with firearms are harmless and only intending to do so for hobbies, jokes and various artistic reasons. There are photos posted of people holding knives and covered in blood with no harm intended toward anyone.

I've seen no evidence or testimony showing that the teacher threatened or intended to harm anyone.

[familyop]

And BTW, let’s have a look at your tagline, “While the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.” Many busybody parents and schoolteachers would jump at the opportunity to pretend that a word in your tagline offends their sensitivities in order to have you fired. ...unless you agree with other parts of their ideology. They would also misconstrue your tagline in order to do so.

[wardaddy]

Are you familiar with Oleg Volk's photowork with women and guns? women find them epowering and securing...

[William Tell]

Ol' Dan Tucker said: "Was this a harmless photo, too? "

You're the one who posted it here. You tell us whether you intended to terrorize FreeRepublic by causing this photo to appear. Was it your intention to threaten the rest of us?

Or are you able to distinguish between murderous acts and the publishing of pictures of guns?

[meyer]

Was this a harmless photo, too?

It's harmless because it's a photo. It also shows a couple of violations of safe gun handling.

[Kozak]

What about this one?

[Doohickey]

Is your journey to sissitude complete, Dan, or are you still working on it?

[PLMerite]

“Nope. Like I said, she wasn’t just holding it.”

I normally don’t give grief to people who’ve been on FR longer than I have.

But, dude, you’re creeping up on the Moron-o-meter.