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Professor Takes Heat for Calling Cops on Student Who Discussed Guns in Class
Fox News ^ | March 4, 2009 | Maxim Lott

Posted on 03/04/2009 1:43:35 PM PST by Zakeet

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To: Big_Monkey
Do we ask people to register books they own?

It already happens. The bookstores keep a history of your purchases. Same with the grocery store.

Oops, I forgot about that.

41 posted on 03/04/2009 2:01:53 PM PST by YellowRoseofTx (Evil is not the opposite of God; it's the absence of God)
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To: swain_forkbeard
Which rights, exactly, were violated?

Since when does the state get to question you about legally exercising your constitutional rights?

I wouldn't have answered any questions of any kind until I had a lawyer present.
42 posted on 03/04/2009 2:02:34 PM PST by JamesP81 (I shall give their president the same respect they gave mine)
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To: Big_Monkey

Not yet, but we’ve only been a truly socialist country for a couple of months now. It’ll take a while for things to really get ramped up. You’ll hardly notice it.


43 posted on 03/04/2009 2:03:22 PM PST by 75thOVI ("The crews of all submarines captured should be treated as pirates and hanged". Sir Arthur Wilson)
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To: Red Badger

And ring fingers noticeably longer than her index fingers.


44 posted on 03/04/2009 2:04:04 PM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: MaxMax
"I laughed at her and patted my hip. The fear on her face was priceless.

Several years ago, the parents of my daughter's friend stopped allowing her to come to our home because of my NRA sticker on the front door - dangerous guns and all.

Last Christmas, that same girl overdosed on her mother's prescription drugs. Which house was more dangerous?

45 posted on 03/04/2009 2:04:44 PM PST by Big_Monkey
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To: I Hate Obama

“Another moronic Liberal professor teaching at our colleges.”

Is there any other kind (outside of the schools of engineering and business)?


46 posted on 03/04/2009 2:04:57 PM PST by Signalman
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To: Big_Monkey
how in the world does the campus police department get a list of all the firearms this man owns.

Same way that online newspaper in Memphis got the list of carry permit holders in Tennessee and published the link online. My name is on there and so is my husbands.

47 posted on 03/04/2009 2:05:09 PM PST by Melinda in TN
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To: Zakeet

On the other hand. Back in the 1980s, I had a friend giving a presentation about military tactics in a communications course at a decidedly non-liberal university. After giving his presentation, he was still wearing camouflage fatigues and combat boots, an olive drab bandanna over his hair, camouflage paint on his face, and carrying a legal AR-15 on campus.

His professor and the other students didn’t get excited about it, which I pointed out to him they had every right to do, him looking like Rambo at 11am. I pointed out if some liberal professor saw him, he would probably have a shrieking stroke, pass out and bump his head, and that would reflect poorly on the ROTC program.

Technically, I suppose, even then you weren’t supposed to carry guns on campus. But nobody was going to make an issue of it, in that lots of the student body would look at you funny if you questioned their guns.


48 posted on 03/04/2009 2:05:27 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: a fool in paradise
It already happens. The bookstores keep a history of your purchases. Same with the grocery store.

Not if you spend cash and don't use one of those "savings" cards (or use a fake one). One of the grocery chains doesn't even use those cards - Publix, I believe.

49 posted on 03/04/2009 2:05:28 PM PST by meyer (Obama is to the USA as Mugabe is to Zimbabwe.)
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To: Red Badger

“I bet she has short hair and glasses...”

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And yearns mightily for those orbs that make bulls different from cows....


50 posted on 03/04/2009 2:06:09 PM PST by EyeGuy
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To: Zakeet

Name: Anderson, Paula
Phone Number: 8322690
Job Title: Lecturer
Department: Communication
Location: R C Vance Acad Ctr 317
Email: andersonpau@ccsu.edu
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Paula is not a ‘Professor’.


51 posted on 03/04/2009 2:07:18 PM PST by seton89
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To: Zakeet

An attempt to intimidate, that’s all.


52 posted on 03/04/2009 2:08:19 PM PST by luvbach1
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To: Zakeet

Hey FReepers, it’s really getting old reading the comments about how SCARED this sort of stuff is. How ‘bout getting MAD? Would that work? Confront these idiots, you know, they’re NOT 10ft. tall man-eating monsters. Fight back for pete’s sake.

I’ve dealt with these idiots on a professional and personal basis, oddly enough, when confronted by a person that is confident in what he’s talking about (both 1st and 2nd Amendment issues) they generally back off and when they don’t there are organizations willing to take them on, you might consider donating to them also because if it’s your college kid that’s being harassed suddenly it means something (been there done that).

Too often we surrender without firing a verbal shot, well let’s fire those verbal shots and written shots. Write their college regents, presidents, professors (I’ve done that too, regents are VERY money sensitive), protect and show your kids how to fight this stuff with their brains to stand up instead of apologetically mincing around. It seems like we’ve surrendered the whole damned country to liberals without really taking them to task, sold our children and grandchildren right down the river without a peep.

One of my little skinny 105# daughters-in-law took on a whole school board because our granddaughter was put in a Spanish speaking class (English as a second language class, this in Texas so you understand), wow, suddenly things were changed, nothing like a firebrand little momma taking on an issue that she’s RIGHT about. No, no repercussions, that was two years ago.


53 posted on 03/04/2009 2:09:17 PM PST by brushcop (SFC Sallie, CPL Long, LTHarris, SSG Brown, PVT Simmons KIA OIF lll&V, they died for you, honor them)
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To: Big_Monkey
I'm not sure if the police have any civil culpability or have exposed themselves to a civil action, but at a minimum their behavior is disturbing.

Deprivation of rights under the color of law.

54 posted on 03/04/2009 2:10:02 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (Obama - what you get when you mix Affirmative Action with the Peter Principle.)
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To: Zakeet

This kind of thing is pretty normal in the colleges.


55 posted on 03/04/2009 2:11:16 PM PST by MeganC
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To: Zakeet
If you go after students for just discussing an idea, that goes against everything a university is supposed to stand for.

Approved ideas are more equal than disapproved ones, citizen.

56 posted on 03/04/2009 2:12:06 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: I Hate Obama
When I was in High School, back in the 50’s, the members of the ROTC use to bring their own guns to school on the days they had class...My how we have changed. Oh, yea, they never shot anybody.......Guns haven't changed, society has...too bad....
57 posted on 03/04/2009 2:13:27 PM PST by goat granny
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To: Zakeet
That night, police called Wahlberg, a 23-year-old senior, and asked him to come to the station. When he arrived...

First mistake; he should have said, "No" and left it at that. Never talk to the cops.

58 posted on 03/04/2009 2:13:31 PM PST by SeaHawkFan
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To: cripplecreek
Nobody was supposed to find out.

Wahlberg is the student. Although I'm certain the professor feels this way.

59 posted on 03/04/2009 2:13:42 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (Obama - what you get when you mix Affirmative Action with the Peter Principle.)
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To: Alas Babylon!
“When he arrived, they they read off a list of firearms that were registered in his name and asked where he kept them.”
I don't know if they have a Constitution free zone in CT, but if the police obtained that information from background checks when he purchased the guns, they violated federal law. Of course the DemonRATs want very badly to keep that information, but the Instant Background Check bans the storage of that information. DemonRATs were outraged at Rumsfeld when he insisted they obey the law.
60 posted on 03/04/2009 2:13:49 PM PST by bitterohiogunclinger (America held hostage - day 128)
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