So the Texas State Legislature is considering a law allowing conceal and carry of firearms on the campuses of public schools. Faculty, students, administration, and staff would be eligible to conceal and carry.
If the law passes, I’m considering taking the license for myself, even though I have never owned a gun other than a twenty gauge shotgun. But that can’t be concealed. So I might as well carry a six shooter .38 revolver in my pocket.
Imagine a professor saying, “You better hand in that paper on time mo****fu***r—or else.” Unfortunately “Up against the wall” would be answered by “Stop telling me what to do, or else I’ll kill you like the worthless piece of s**t that you are.”
No doubt, this law will surely improve education. It will teach that one need not study texts which emphasize speech in a deliberate, albeit difficult, search for the good. Smith and Wesson will become more important than Plato.
You may say that those who hold conceal and carry licenses are already responsible, and that they would never commit crimes. But if that is the case then this law already has a bias in favor of ONLINE education—which is a non-education. Stay at home responsibly with one’s own guns and read Wikipedia. It beats the showdown at the OK Corral U. As a professor friend of mine says, “If you take online courses, you are not serious about education. So why should I be serious about teaching?”
Why not make it dumb for everyone online? Besides, there is an app for that anyway.
But administrators hope against hope that this total online education will be the case of the future of education. Then administrators will have true job security, and there will be no need for actual teachers. So they like the idea of everyone carrying guns, as long as those guns are held at home online and everything else educational is online too.
If you listen to the most fierce defenders of this law allowing everyone to conceal and carry, you would think that “the government” is one step removed from mass killings the likes of which were used by Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, or Mao.
But if you tried to find the actual law on the web page of the Texas legislature, you might be forgiven if you thought that Chauncey Gardener, Forrest Gump, or Jacques Clouseau were its framers.
That’s why I don’t have a link here. As Forrest Gump’s mother said, “Stupid is as stupid does.”
You may make this issue what you will, but the so called “citizens” legislature which spends its time in Austin 24/7—365 makes laws for all of Texas. Try to figure this nonsense out at the Texas State Legislature’s page—let alone try to figure out their reasoning behind the law.
Nonetheless, I’m gonna stay at home and be a web page monitor—oops, I meant to say professor—of online education. Despite one’s responsibility, it beats being killer or killed.
Okay, I’ll keep teaching face to face, but after this law you must realize that that is a bulge, and while I will be as excited to teach as I ever was, that bulge is actually a gun, and I am not that happy to see you. Beware!
I only wish I were as excited about teaching without a gun as I am with one. You see, allowing guns in the classroom makes my thoughts perverted in a way that they never were.
Thanks Texas.
P.S. You may wonder about the psycho with a gun who kills many indiscriminately in school without remorse. Would my .38 ultimately save anyone? I wonder. What I do know is that education in its notion of pointing toward a way of life that is worth living is corrupted the more gun training is emphasized over “great book” learning.
But then I would never want to say that education in guns is not worthwhile.
February 2nd, 2013 | 8:37 am
Stumbled across this site. Wow.
You managed to demonstrate total and complete ignorance about concealed carry laws and online education, in one post! Not often that a total ignoramus can hit a double. Well played indeed, sir!
Irrational, illogical, and non-fact based emoting, especially regarding issues such as gun control laws, “gun free” zones (a/k/a “advertised defenseless victim zones”) is more a trademark of your typical enlightened progressive, and not a conservative; so I question how you decided to label this site. Unless the name is meant to be “ironic” in a hipster sort of way. After all, this post would fit in quite nicely over at Dem Underground, Kos, or Village Voice.
February 2nd, 2013 | 10:12 am
[...] So the Texas State Legislature is considering a law allowing conceal and carry of firearms on the campuses of public schools. Faculty, students, administration, and staff would be eligible to conceal and carry. If the law passes, I’m considering taking the license for myself, even though I have never owned a Source: Postmodern Conservative [...]
February 2nd, 2013 | 10:16 am
John, I love ya, dude. Your stuff is usually top notch, well reasoned, grounded on the ‘good’(or it’s somewhere around), and cogent.
The above isn’t.
Get some rest, drive down to San Anton and visit Cimmeron’s and buy a olde six shooter. You can conceal it, but it’ll give you curvature of the spine. You’d be better off buying a new Beretta Nano 9mm but they’re sold out, so good luck.
I’m pretty sure that not even The One is going to be able to grab our guns, let alone our Bibles. You might as well get used to folks carrying. It actually makes me feel a little more at peace, knowing that if I get in a gun fight with some gangbanger, or nutball, I won’t have to wait for the cops to arrive, for a little hep.
February 2nd, 2013 | 11:48 am
“Imagine a professor saying…..mo – fo…”
Um…under the CCP laws of my state (FL) doing that would be a chargeable crime. Most probably in Texas, too. Aside and apart from the high probability of instant job termination. The whole point of concealed carry (and as is codifed by statute) is that nobody is to know that you have the firearm. You can even be charged if you carelessly allow the presence of it to be visually detected through too transparent or tight clothing.
Here is a quiz: What do the shootings in: Columbine, Va Tech, Fort Hood, Aurora CO, and Newtown all have in common?…….
Ding ding! Yes we have a winner. Answer: They all occurred in “Gun Free” Zones! (yes, Fort Hood too).
Mass killers may be crazy – but they’re not stupid. If you live in a CC state, the asst principal, the gym coach, the janitor, and the divorced teacher who had a physically abusive ex, at your kid’s junior high may already be CCP holders. But being law abiding, criminal record free, background-checked, finger-prints and photo already on file with the state (and probably the FBI too) citizens (otherwise, they would have never gotten their CCPs) — their mini-9mm semi autos, are….at home.
However, if the asinine “Gun Free, except if you are a violent criminal since you’ll ignore it anyway, Zones” are eliminated……Nobody will know — including the students, fellow faculty, and um, oh yeah – would be killers – whether Principal Bob or Art teacher Sally is armed.
February 2nd, 2013 | 3:14 pm
Last week in my course on Jurisprudence, we discussed Aristotle’s choice to open his treatment of the virtues of character with courage. The students had a hard time relating to his insistence that the primary instance of courage is that of the citizen being willing do die in defense of his city, to choose a noble/beautiful death over a calculating retreat. They wanted to find courage more in the actions of those who protect the vulnerable, stand up for the rights of the oppressed, etc. They talked a lot about Dr. King. Strangely, they also talked about…Batman. Anyway, it seems that the prospect of conceal and carry on university campuses provides us with another opportunity to reflect on what the exercise of courage, the first of the virtues, would look like today.
February 3rd, 2013 | 5:47 am
Well, the piece made me laugh. What a choice, to have to worry about physical self-defense in the classroom or to retreat to the semi-education of online classes. Ohio is discussing similar legislation and offering teachers conceal-carry training at public expense. I would also feel silly carrying a gun in my classroom, but if nuts are allowed to roam free and are, apparently, encouraged to get an education, then the threat of guns in the classroom is a sensible line of defense.
February 3rd, 2013 | 10:00 am
Kate, thank you. Your comments were not only logical but reassuring in the sense that we still have teachers who can reason, who aren’t, primarily, state apparatchiks, and care about their students and profession.
You’ll find a light weight 9mm suitable in terms of stopping power, weight, and conceal-ability.
And, as an Ohio taxpayer, that “on-line” edumaction thing has a lot going for it terms of COST (..have mercy on the poor, oppressed taxpayers!)
February 3rd, 2013 | 4:39 pm
“They wanted to find courage more in the actions of those who protect the vulnerable, stand up for the rights of the oppressed, etc. They talked a lot about Dr. King. Strangely, they also talked about…Batman.”
Fabulous. So our next generation is being brought up to revere archetypes of statist progressive advocacy or Nietchean fantasies of the ubermench (albeit in the service of the oppressed, or is batman just using that to serve his own fantasies of cosmic revenge?).
Either way, to paraphrase Mr. Vernon monologue in Breakfast Club: I look at our culture and weep for the future.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df8Y3AZLSAE
February 4th, 2013 | 3:54 pm
From 1956 to 1960 I attended Darlington Prep School in Rome, GA. We had a rifle club and routinely carried rifles to school as well as an occasional pistol up to .45 calibre. We had a lot of fun. The only casualty I recall was a dormitory student who thought that he was Fast Draw McGraw and accidently discharged his pistol practicing his fast draw. He shot himself in the foot. By the way, he kept the weapon in his dormitory room, not in an armory.
February 4th, 2013 | 5:41 pm
In Utah, about ten years ago, the progressive president of the University of Utah, Bernie Machen, who was not a native of the state, actually sued the State in Federal court, claiming that he had the right to declare the campus a “gun free zone” despite the explicit terms of the state law allowing concealed carry. It is a large campus which can be entered freely in a car or on foot and there is no physical control of anyone entering with a weapon of any kind. The Federal court asked the Utah Supreme Court whether the university was a legally independent entity not subject to state legislation. The state Supreme Court ruled that, unlike some state universities, the U of U was a fully integrated agency of the state and subject to the concealed carry law. By then a new president who had actually gone to college in Utah was in charge, and acceded to the result. To my knowledge, not a single person has been shot on campus since then.
I should note that when I attended law school there, one of the other students was Ted Bundy, who kept a revolver and other tools of his hobby as a serial killer in his Volkswagen beetle in the student parking lot. None of Machen’s policies would have ever deterrred Bundy. After you defy the laws against murder and assault with a deadly weapon, being suspended from law school is not a serious deterrent.
The problem at base with Obama and the whole gun control mentality is the belief that every gun owner is an incipient mass murderer, and that simply having a firearm is an unbearable temptation for the average human being to use it in a criminal fashion. It is an objectification of people, treating them as if they are irrational and have no habit of self-control. Since that seems to be the profile of the ideal Democratic Party voter, one can understand how they reach that viewpoint, but it would be nice if their constituents could be made to understand that their “keepers” in the government don’t trust them to act responsbly with any real power, and believe that the infantilization of the citizenry (ala Huxley’s Brave New World) is simply bowing to reality.
February 5th, 2013 | 12:59 pm
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February 22nd, 2013 | 6:08 pm
Unless a mass shooter identifies themselves as such, your concealed weapon will most likely be useless. Especially if they come armed with an AR-15.
May 29th, 2013 | 1:37 am
I think this would be terrible if every students will carry a gun. A little misunderstanding will result to shooting. I do not think it is right.
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