‘But as a progressive, I would sooner lay my child to rest than succumb to the belief that the use of a gun for self-defense is somehow not in itself a gun crime.’
Presumably, he means use of a gun by police and military personnel, as well; otherwise he is simply committing ‘gun crime’ by proxy.
Logically, therefore, one must presume he is perfectly comfortable with the notion of yielding his home and the lives of all family members to common thugs, to al-Qaeda terrorists, or, for that matter, to the descendants of German and/or Japanese troops, defending against the predations of whom a great many fine, young men died.
Never mind; it’s understood that this ‘teacher’ is merely intellectually lazy and morally defenseless. He is, in fact, among the very worst of the nation’s addled ‘educators’ - someone who is not only incapable of logical thought, but who is, in addition, proud of the fact and pleased to inflict his deficiencies upon the young and vulnerable.