Deer Hunter
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Ok guys.
Got an email from the teacher.
So let's focus on the encounter itself and leave my poorly written, grammatically wrong, weakly cited, C- paper alone for one moment and look at the response. It's alright. Better than I thought.
I wont give my response until I hear what you guys have to say about this. My response is friendly. Especially about the whole "taking him shooting" bit.
Got an email from the teacher.
So let's focus on the encounter itself and leave my poorly written, grammatically wrong, weakly cited, C- paper alone for one moment and look at the response. It's alright. Better than I thought.
I like how you used my closing statement back on me, well played.
I never meant that you are paranoid, I meant that people are paranoid and do dumb things when they are scared, like shoot loved ones, i got that statistic from somewhere long ago (like I said, I'm old). Maybe it's changed by now.
I never meant to imply that it was your responsibility to protect people, just that you seem to be implying that if people at Virginia Tech had concealed weapons the situation would have ended differently. What I understand now is that you meant, if the possibility of people having guns was there, then the shooter would have thought twice about going in.
Gunfights are not a duel, what I was trying to say is that he/she is going to squeeze off a few shots before you unholster and put them down. Maybe you are really fast, like you said, I don't have much experience with guns. Maybe you can put him down before he gets you or whoever he was shooting at.
Sorry, I am trying not to turn this into another lecture. You are a smart kid, you have good arguments and logic and you have actually thought about your beliefs unlike some people who just accept what others tell them. That is why your opinion matters to me. It's okay that we disagree, but I want you to understand why I believe what I believe. You may think I am full of ****, but I don't want you to think that I am just spouting off about things I haven't really thought about. Who knows, maybe you still do think that. Not much I can do about it. But I am glad we could talk, that we could discuss things even if ultimatley neither one of us changed our minds. I hope that my letter wasn't the reason you took off from class. That was not my intent. I hope you got some work done on your papers and stuff for other classes.
I think I can call you this now, but be well my friend. It was good having you in class. All the best in the future and I hope you will keep in contact. I might just take you up on you offer to go shooting this summer.
-Rey
(Also, not to be melodramatic, but I would try and stop somebody who came into our class with the intention to shoot one of my students, even if it meant dying. I mean, that's what teachers are supposed to do, isn't it? Maybe it is my naivete, but I think most of us would.)
I wont give my response until I hear what you guys have to say about this. My response is friendly. Especially about the whole "taking him shooting" bit.