Editor,
Here’s one of the best ideas to come along in years. Naturally it came from that bastion of enlightenment Texas, the state that gave us George Bush, Rick Perry and the death penalty for most of its citizens. Arizona and Colorado already have seized onto this innovative idea — let’s have guns on campus.
Why bother with Rate My Professors (www.ratemyprofessors.com) and those IDEA forms at the end of the semester? That lousy and over-demanding physics professor that gave you the D, just have done with it and shoot him with your blunderbuss. He won’t be messing around with any more students after that.
Let him scream all he wants about “entitled and spoiled young people.” When he sees you carrying a harquebus or an AK-47, he will tremble with respect for your academic acumen.
What about that annoying dweeb who sits next to you in grammar class and makes odd noises with his upper lip and left nostril while the class is discussing the verb expansion formula?
Defending yourself with a gatling gun will prove a remedy most in tune with the political climate and the lifestyle here at good old UNM.
If there’s a bicyclist or a skateboarder who needs a lesson in manners, you are just the one to do it. Grab your piece, and in the name of higher education, John Dewey and the arts and sciences, take aim and exercise your constitutional rights!
James Burbank
UNM faculty
