Thanks for sharing.

Professor Campos is a Law Professor at the University of Colorado. He is very smart, at least according to Professor Campos.

You see Der Professor is an uber elitist. He will tell you that you don’t need those dangerous guns because statistically you are more likely to win the lottery or be hit by lightning than to be in a situation where you need to defend yourself. I find this interesting as I have never won the lottery or been hit by lightning but I have had a situation where I was very glad to be armed.

The message from this elitist mental giant is that everything we fear is not real. Except of course Global Warming, that is very real and the Earth will be destroyed unless we ride our bike to work.

Do you ever wonder how this country got so messed up in the past forty years? It comes from the schools. How many minds has Der Professor warped? He writes, “The ongoing overreaction to the 9/11 terrorist attacks is only the most vivid example of how our leaders cynically exploit our fears by making wildly exaggerated claims, such as that Islamic terrorism poses an “existential threat” to America.”

Folks, this country has been attacked twice. The First Barbary War with Barbary Coast pirates, aka Muslims, and 9/11. Pearl Harbor was an attack on U.S. military bases but Hawaii was not yet a State.

Der Professor will have you believe that the greatest threat to our nation is Republicans. The good Professor writes, “we should be more afraid of having our children stolen from us by Republicans than by kidnappers.”

Here is just a sample from the great intellect of the high elitist:

As both a bad athlete and a smart person, I find this very annoying. Of course merely writing that sentence is extraordinarily obnoxious. Smart people are supposed to pretend that they aren’t, or at the very least have the decency not to point out that, in comparison to the average person, they are, like, smart and stuff.

This is a product of a certain anti-intellectual populism that’s a long-standing feature of American culture. Currently, it’s most commonly found as part of the right-wing backlash politics described in Thomas Frank’s book What’s the Matter With Kansas?

Oh the rage many a Fox News viewer feels at the thought of all those smarty-pants professors! We think we’re smarter than the average salt of the earth citizen, yet we couldn’t possibly survive in the real world, where car engines are rebuilt, siding is installed, and many other manful feats are performed without the aid of doctoral dissertations, and where “common sense” (translation: the undigested biases of the middle class) rules the day.

This is the mindset of the intellectual elite. You don’t need those guns because the threat is only in your mind. Professor Campos will have you believe that 9/11 was a statistical aberration. A once in a very great while freak occurrence. People are peace loving and only wish to engage us in reasonable discourse. We can all get along if only the Republicans can be stopped.

Remember to vote in November. Vote against the intellectual elite who cannot see the clear threat before us. The Boy Scouts had the best answer. Be prepared.

The message, I would think, is that Campos is in fact worried that Republicans will “take” his children and those of his readers, in the ideological sense. If the city’s safe enough that you don’t need Mommy smothering you, then as an adult you’re less likely to vote for the party that wants government to smother you too.

This is the problem. The personal is none of anyone else’s damn business, and by implying that it is de facto political, even rhetorically, reinforces the kind of communitarian b.s. that promotes even more intrusion into our lives.

On a related note:

As far as statistics, personal responsibility, and safety are concerned, “it ain’t about the odds—it’s what’s at stake.” Always be armed.

Republican my rear end! That’s demoCRAP.

I’m amazed at how over-protective some parents are. Kids have to learn how to take care of themselves. How the blazes are they ever gonna know what the real world is like if they aint allowed to go anywhere without paranoid mommy holding their hands?

{everybody sing!}
Democrats – Ah aaaa – They’re a miracle
Democrats – Ah aaaa – Kings of the impossible
They’re for every one of us
Stand for every one of us
They’ll save with a mighty hand
Every man, every woman, every child
With a mighty Flash

Democrats – Ah aaaa – They’ll save every one of us
Democrats, saviors of the Universe – gonna save every one of us!

{Remember children, Republicans are evil.}

Maybe?

I dunno, I suck at hidden meanings.