Posted on 12/06/2015 6:23:36 AM PST by lowbridge
He succinctly summarized his "pitch" at the end of the discourse, saying, "If you want a cause-want to get on a bandwagon-then get these guns outlawed, and do something about the Second Amendment."
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"We are in a situation where Australia had a situation like ours a number of years ago, and Australia said, 'look we're just losing too many people' ... [and they] went out and bought guns from everybody; now it is extremely difficult to buy a gun in Australia and very few people get killed."
Symanski then informed the class of "an article in the paper that said literally, and I'm not exaggerating," that a mass shooting happens in this country "every single day," on average.
"Who's the big culprit of this?" he asked in a tone that discouraged hand-raising. "It's the NRA-the National Rifle Association-which is enormously powerful in this country, in a way that you and I can't imagine."
Symanski lamented that the NRA's central argument-that people, not guns, are responsible for violence-have never made sense to him, because he considers people to be incapable of resisting the universal urge to pull the trigger when firearms are at hand.
"Look,we're all sort of off the edge at some point, right? We don't know when we're going to fly off edge. And what does the issue become? The issue becomes do we have access to a gun or an AK47 or an automatic weapon? If we don't have access to the damn thing we can't kill anybody."
Later, as if sharing a secret with the class, Symanski observed that "the Second Amendment to the Constitution came into play at the end of the 18th century," when muzzleloaders were the technological state-of-the-art.
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As much as these vile totalitarian collectivists vilify the NRA, they cannot produce one, NOT ONE, NRA member that has hurt ANYBODY.
Molon Labe
What do his remarks have to do with teaching biology? He should be dismissed. If he wants to perform political activism, let him do that in a place other than a science lecture hall.
or an automatic weapon?
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Auotmatic weapons require a Class III license.
Has there ever been a Class III licensed weapon ever used in a crime?
I don’t think so.
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Australian Gun Ban Facts & Statistics
Reasonforforce ^
Posted on 1/3/2013, 7:48:26 AM by RC one
It has now been over 10 years since gun owners in Australia were forced by new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by their own Government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars.
The statistics for the years following the ban are now in:
Accidental gun deaths are 300% higher than the pre-1997 ban rate
The assault rate has increased 800% since 1991, and increased 200% since the 1997 gun ban.
Robbery and armed robbery have increase 20% from the pre-97 ban rate.
From immediately after the ban was instituted in 1997 through 2002, the robbery and armed robbery rate was up 200% over the pre-ban rates.
In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms are now up 171 percent
I thought it was the Koch brothers, or climate change or something.
Didn’t that idiot know it was climate change that caused it?
Stop arguing their premise.
Gun control is civil war.
Just so.
Students in is class who are looking for biology instruction should remonstrate. The head of his department should be questioned on this. Donors should be pressuring regents to get this straightened out.
Alas. Should, should, should. It is a mark of the overwhelming success of the Gramscian project that none of these shoulds will take place.
That guy is queer as a three-dollar bill. Damn....if I wasn’t retired and still a manager of engineers and scientists, there sure as hell wouldn’t be any UC resumes on my desk.
What the F is a BIOLOGY PROFESSOR talking politics. That moron is NOT a professor of poli-sci.
The French NRA must be extra evil.
Bookmark.
And the only forms of communication were the spoken word and documents written with a quill pen (and possibly the printing press by then). Does this imply that the first amendment should not apply to communications via radio, television, internet, etc.?
Little minds full of mush are being formed by educators.
Sanders wants it to be free so more little minds can be formed.
Remember in the old days “Professor” meant someone smart? Now it’s synonymous with retard.
To a gun grabber, that argues for more licensing.
Did the Bank robbers in Los Angeles in the 1990’s who had automatic (AK’s and an ar-15 if I remember) weapons have a Class III license? Either way, it makes no difference.
People kill people.
Well, statistics aside, the leftists get to claim that they ‘did something ‘, results be damned.
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