College professor re: gun control
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Foundations of Risk Management. The topic and likely its professor are rooted in logic and critical thinking. When looked at logically, it is evident that the shooter already broke about a dozen existing firearm laws that were not a deterrent. Adding more just erodes the rights of law abiding gun owners.
Professors and classes of the more esoteric type that rely on theory, emotion and feelings ie gender studies, behavioral sciences etc are usually on the liberal bend of the gun argument.
KPC,
I don't know about your daughter, but my political opinions were already firmly in place by the time I went to college. My college professors did little to change or reaffirm them. In fact, I rather enjoyed debating certain topics with some of my more liberal educators, who were abundant at Colorado University in Boulder in the early '80s.
I think some people give educators too much credit for shaping the political opinions of college age kids. Sure, the professors influence some students, but I'd argue most of those kids lack a proper foundation from home. Or the kids simply take the opposite side of the fence as their parents as a form of rebellious independence.
From what I know about you, I doubt your daughter is that malleable.
Matt
Refreshing to hear of a Professor at that level exhibiting common sense, and passing the logic on to his Students. No doubt, he is a minority, but I hope it's a growing minority.
Best of Luck, Jeff
My wife's college roommate constantly complained about how cold her bedroom was. The thermostat in the hallway was set at 71. I offered to take a look at it (electric heat). She had the master bedroom and it had its own thermostat...on the wall next to her bachelors degree and set at 50. She was one that was easily influenced.
I don't know Matt....I had not one iota of political bone in my body in college. I literally didn't care in the least. It was only after growing older that I started paying attention. While my professors leaned left, I didn't care and didn't really pay attention. Like you, they had no effect on me but I didn't have any leanings at all until I got a job. :)
"In this particular case, the professor is a female".
Even Better !
Not all college professors are libs. My daughter served as a clerk for one of the country's most eminent 2nd amendment legal scholars when she was in law school a couple of years ago. He is pro 2a! There was probably not anther conservative on the faculty at the private law school she attended unless they were part time faculty which means they are a full time lawyer somewhere...probably in their own firm.
I saw Trey Gowdy on TV today and he wanted to know what law could possibly have stopped this. He said there are laws on the books that are not being enforced. He said laws mean nothing if they are not enforced.
Bingo^^^ as an undergrad engineering major who also took classes in math and business, politics wasn't even a point of conversation. When things even approached a topic that bordered on politics, the general sentiment of the students and teachers leaned towards solutions and opinions that were more associated with conservatise thinking.
I attended grad school at a place that carried the torch for the free market movement, the University of Chicago. This was the home of Milton, Fama, Coase, and Becker and their idealogies were clearly alive and well in the professors I had.
This concept of liberal brainwashing at our colleges and universities doesn't match any of the experience I had.
"I don't know Matt....I had not one iota of political bone in my body in college. I literally didn't care in the least. It was only after growing older that I started paying attention. While my professors leaned left, I didn't care and didn't really pay attention. Like you, they had no effect on me but I didn't have any leanings at all until I got a job."
Interesting. I had a job from the age of 16 years on, paid for my own degree that way. Not working was not an option in my family. My family always ate meals together, too, and politics was often a subject of conversation at the dinner table, so many of my opinions were formed long before college.
But, like you, politics wasn't at the forefront in college. It took a back seat to playing ball, drinking beer, chasing women, and occasionally studying. ;-)
Matt
The adult education field has had so many progressive educators throughout history. Many of them made great and valuable strides in education until they were imprisoned or became foaming at the mouth radicalized socialists. How they made the leap from critical thinking and knowledge is power to socialism is beyond me.
Here's a billboard that just went up in the neighboring community of Chico, California (a University Town). You guys in the Rockies and the Heartland are so lucky not to have to see crap like this !
This is in an area that primarily votes Republican (Red)...so I attribute this to the University and/or the large population of "Snowflakes" in the Community.
Sickening. Unbelievable hypocrisy in one billboard (for the rational mind anyway).
All my economic and forestry courses were taught by conservatives. Most of my wildlife classes and, general studies were taught by liberals. So, I can see that being the case with a finance major. God Bless
