Gun Control & RKBA

How in the world can you be a mathematician, yet fail logical thought progression is such a grand manner? How is it that you can make such blanket assumptions regarding the thought patterns and motives of persons whom you have never met? I shudder at the thought that you are representative of the faculty of today's Academia.

My child attends UCLA, and she has stated that some of her Profs and TAs have such logic fails in her Poly Sci and Soc classes, but that is to be expected, given Politics and Sociology as subject matters. Both are, in my view, completely subjective for each person. Perhaps one can determine objectively whether or not a given policy is efficacious, but otherwise I do not believe that the study of either is measurable, unlike the hard sciences. How in the world can a teacher of the logic of mathematics be so utterly bereft in his or her observation of society and how people think and act?

Yet it seems you want to make blanket statements regarding how entire groups of people think. You deem me a racist based solely upon how I comment and vote on a couple of polls? How utterly contemptible you must view a vast number of the adult (age 18+) US population. According to the Census Bureau, there are 245+ million adults in the US with somewhere between 80-125 million owning firearms, depending upon your source material. Rather hubristic of you to ascribe motives to all those folks, don't you think? And to call that many people such belittling things such as Ammosexual? You work in a field littered with giants such as Euclid, Pythagoras, Newton, Gauss, et al. It must be soul crushing to be so mentally limited in such a gifted field.

But I am reacting to your listing of me, and your ascribing of me as a racist. I believe there is one race: the human race. Individuals are good, bad, evil, saintly, and everything in between, depending upon their own viewpoints. Personally, I served in the Army for over 18 years, and I only saw the uniform. The melanin content of the individual is not worth noting. What is worth noting is the individual effort and character displayed by the person. I agree or disagree with them based upon their actions and efforts. If they laid back and preferred to let others do the difficult, dirty, or dangerous work without helping, I did my best to see that they returned to their Home of Record to afflict their friends and neighbors, not drag down the performance of the unit, or endanger other troops or civilians.

Pain in the ass? Most assuredly. Prick? Occasionally, as the situation merits. Racist??? Not ever.

You sir? I'll not besmirch this board with a direct statement of what I think of your character. Be advised, however: I hold the thought processes of a late stage syphilitic in higher esteem than I do yours.

In the late 18th century, Samuel Johnson held that "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel." Today it seems rather to be that Academia has replaced Patriotism as the scoundrel's refuge.