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Gun Control & RKBA

DonP

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6. "How can I say that I don’t want to support students who are gun enthusiasts" - Easy!

Reply to beevul (Original post)

Thu May 19, 2016, 03:13 PM

May 2016

Easy, just be honest and calmly tell your student that you're a bigot that judges people, not on the content of their character, their behavior and performance, but on your own petty fears and ignorant prejudices.

Hopefully she'll find someone less judgemental with far better character to ask for a reference.

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Guns, Pancakes, and Ambiguity [View all] beevul May 2016 OP

It seems to me that "Myrtle" needs to stop living in fear of inanimate objects - and start jonno99 May 2016 #1

"It seems to me no person who has truly experienced the full impact of their own emotions would ever Brickbat May 2016 #2

I'm amused and appalled ... Straw Man May 2016 #3

This teacher needs to learn something about academic freedom... Eleanors38 May 2016 #4

She indeed belongs on a list, as in a list of formally employed teachers... Marengo May 2016 #5

"How can I say that I don’t want to support students who are gun enthusiasts" - Easy! DonP May 2016 #6

Would she have similar reservations sarisataka May 2016 #7

Or substitute; "... discussing her Muslim faith" for gun ownership? DonP May 2016 #9

How can someone who should be smart, be so dumb and irrational ileus May 2016 #8

The student is planning on becoming a teacher. CompanyFirstSergeant May 2016 #10