Discussion for article #227183
What did he do, cite an illegitimate source?
Fail to submit his tenure application on time?
Forget to grade his students’ exams?
Oh, wait… He literally shot himself. In the foot.
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Misfired, with a round in the chamber and the safety off, I’d say the gun wasn’t the only thing that misfired.
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That’s what passes for academic freedom in Idaho.
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Freedumb!
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Must be a slow news day. A professor in Idaho shooting himself in the foot is hardly earth shattering.
Oh, you mean literally?
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Such a just metaphor for the idiocy of higher education (or is that edjukashion?) in Idaho: shooting itself in the foot-- after they passed a law allowing guns in classrooms. Good thing he didn’t happen to be seated near a student when the doofus let the thing go off.
Are parents going to pull their students out of his class? Or are the ones who still permit their sons and daughters to attend university in Idaho hung-ho for guns?
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Ph.D. in “Oops”?
On the plus side, this is what educators call a “teachable moment,” because it’s a great opportunity to illustrate the difference between the words literally and figuratively.
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No doubt on his way to conducting the M.L. King - M.K. Ghandi Commemorative Seminar on Non-Violent Resistance as a Political Tool.
The punchlines write themselves, don’t they?
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Man, in the event of an Al Queda invasion of the campus the one or two seconds it would take him to chamber a round and disengage the safety could spell the difference between taking a bullet and being a hero!
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When is ISU going to compensate professors enough to buy proper holsters?
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Wait, I think I need this explained to me.
Did he stop being a Responsible Gun Owner when the bullet unintentionally left the barrel, or when it entered his foot?
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He’ll be lucky if anyone signs up for any of his courses next term.
What if, instead of hitting himself, the bullet ricocheted off the floor and struck a student? Lawsuit large enough to bankrupt that third tier school.
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He was playing pocket-pool apparently.
He was Standing His Ground against toenail fungus!
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Dunno about Idahoe, but here in San Diego, I work on a college campus and the girls don’t wear much. Don’t think I haven’t considered it.
He sure isn’t any rocket scientist, so I bet the humanities department feels safer already.
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What I want to know is, just what kind of campus is that, where faculty carry guns?
Oh. Right. WTF do you expect in a state whose governor is named “Butch Otter?”
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