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Attention overbearing public school administrators: you might want to remove any portraits of the 44th U.S. president hanging on your walls. In a recent Affordable Care Act promotional video produced for the website Buzzfeed, President Barack Obama uses his index finger and thumb to form a finger gun and aim it at the viewer. Apparently, the commander-in-chief has not been briefed on the supposedly anti-social, threatening, and disruptive nature of this gesture, so we are here to help.
It's part of the warped idea that this gesture is somehow cool.
ReplyDeleteSince no shortage of school administrators, being typical anti-gun zealots in their deranged fanaticism, suspend young children for making the very same gesture, the NRA would seem to have an excellent point here (but their point isn't the pointing of a simulated gun at the viewer--not, in other words, a death threat).
ReplyDeleteSuspending kids from school for making this gesture is extremely ridiculous - the pop-tart gun and pizza gun too. I wouldn't say there's "no shortage of school administrators" who do this, though. They are rare examples of ridiculous overreactions to the school shooting problem.
DeleteI wouldn't say there's "no shortage of school administrators" who do this, though.
ReplyDeleteIs it not the case that stating that "I wouldn't say there's 'no shortage of school administrators' who do this," is to at least tacitly imply that there is a shortage of them? There's either a shortage or there is not. If you disagree with my contention that there is not such a shortage, are you not claiming that there is one?
As for how many such school administrators exist, that's hard to say, but let's assume, as you do, that the number is quite low, perhaps even extremely low--as low, perhaps, as the number of concealed carry permit holders who commit a murder that would not have happened had they not had such a permit. Even that tiny number would be far too many school administrators with an anti-gun God complex.
As far as I'm concerned, the closer to zero that number is (because it obviously can't be a negative number, sadly), the better. If that number were zero, I would consider it "no shortage"--and we both know that number is not zero.