Miguel covered the story of Professor Charles K. Smith of San Antonio College showing up on the first day of Texas campus carry in body armor.
The professor told the media he did this because “I was just saying I don’t feel safe.”
No. What he did was grandstanding bullshit.
The whole argument against campus carry is (paraphrasing) “if a professor says something that offends a student with a CCW, the student will lose his/her cool and shoot the professor.” Hence the “free speech concerns” that are raised by the anti-CCW crowd.
If Professor Charles K. Smith really was afraid of offending a student during a geography lecture, so much that student would shoot him, why would he antagonize his students by wearing body armor to class? That just screams “I don’t trust you not to be a bunch of trigger happy reactionaries.”
If he was so afraid of his students being so unhinged that they would turn violent over a lecture, why did he even teach? Seeing as how every day before August 2, they could have reacted violently without a gun, just like the baseball bat wielding snowflakes at Evergreen State.
It wasn’t about his personal safety. It was about making an anti-gun statement.
Here’s the thing.
Back in 1996, after the Port Arthur Massacre, Australian Prime Minister John Howard gave a speech to a crowd of firearms enthusiasts and hunters in which he advocated for a gun ban. He did so, with a bullet proof vest poorly concealed under his jacket. This enraged the crowed, who were deeply offended that the Prime Minister would just assume that a bunch of hunting and shooting clubs would respond with violence. The media took the backlash of law abiding gun owners offended by being addressed by the Prime Minister in body armor as clear evidence that they were unhinged people who needed to have their guns taken away.
It was a character assassination of Australian gun owners.
I don’t know if Professor Smith knew about the John Howard incident, but I believe he was attempting the same sort of thing: provoking a reaction from law abiding gun owners to prove that he was right to be afraid of them, after insulting them to their faces from a position of authority.
Similiar to the argument that open carry will make you a target; wearing visible body armor is going to make some crazy student just use a headshot.
He is a pure, unadulterated hoplophobic attention whore.
I think that Miguel’s mocking tone was the best way to address this publicity whore.
Our elites in the government, media, and academia actually believe they are elite and better than us. Ridiculing and mocking them will get under their skin, any hating and rage on the part of us peons and peasants will merely reinforce their misplaced sense of superiority. Mockery and ridicule goes right at their center.
Before you go any further, ask him if a student has EVER attacked him in any of his classes… bet the answer is no. Just another uneducated cant *unt snowflake
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