My wife stuck it to the anti-gun bigots!

[Partisan Ranger]

My wife is Russian by birth and is taking an evening English composition class in Manassas Va. Last night in her class, they had an exercise where they read a passage in the textbook and each student had to add a sentence, then the next student added a sentence building on the previous sentence etc.

Guess what the topic of the paragraph was? 'This gun craziness has to stop.'

Everybody in the class of 20 added a line about how horrible guns are, we have to ban them, etc.

When my wife's turn came, she wrote "Banning guns would hurt our constitutional freedoms and would only take guns from law-abiding people. In Russia, guns were banned long ago and criminals still have plenty of guns."

The teacher read my wife's sentence aloud and my wife reports the teacher was shocked!

Sticking it to anti-gun extremist bigots is a blast!

 

[braindead0]

Woo woo!!!!!

 

[BrokenPaw]

::looks around for his cyrillic character set::
::fails to find it::
::improvises::

Tell her I said, "Xopowo!" [0]

PR, y'all want to have dinner down Manassas-way with me and my wife? I learned enough Russian in high school to embarass myself; maybe it'd give your lady-wife a good laugh at my expense...

-BP

[0] That 'w' is, well...she can figure it out...

 

[Flashpoint]

GOOD FOR HER!

One would think those enough with the intelligence to teach and or lead would have the wisdom enough to look back at history and see what gun control has done and hasn't done. Some people are more easily brainwashed than others.

 

[DonP]

Ahh Flashpoint ...

Normally you would be dead on about learning the lessons of history.

But my daughter. the teacher, has explained to me that the current point of view is that a majority of history, as we know it, is a contruct of a white, male dominated culture and can't be trusted as a factual representation of what really happened. World and American history are shortchanged in favor of sensitivity sessions and units on multicultural diversity ... in history no less!

Nothing wrong with diversity but it's sure not a replacement for the lessons of the past.

Thankfully she doesn't see it that way, but a lot of her contemporaries do. So in their pathetic view of the world, history doesn't count for much unless they personally experience, or unless Pat Ireland and the NOW group tells them about it.

Sad statement but there are still alot of well read and educated (self and formally) people out there that arre teaching their own children the truth. There is a reason home schoolers seem to stand out from the crowd in every academic competition.

Don P.

 

[Quantrill]

PR,
I commend your wife for her stand. I only hope for her sake that the teacher can take it as well as dish it out. Maybe she could make it tough on your lady for disageeing with her. I had a friend in a high management position who lost his job after exercizing his 1st amendment rights about his 2nd amendment rights. He was just "frozen out". Nothing that he could take to court. Again, Good for your wife, she has courage and determination. Thank goodness for people like her. Quantrill

 

[Standing Wolf]

One would think those enough with the intelligence to teach and or lead would have the wisdom enough to look back at history and see what gun control has done and hasn't done.

Oh, there you go again! Stop trying to look at these things common sensibly, would you?

 

[El Tejon]

Alright, Broken, if anyone's going to butcher Russian, it's me--horashow.

"Otleechna, devushka."

Sometimes the non-Spartans are more Spartan.

 

[winstonsmith]

Ochen Harasho.

Ya govaru po-ruskee nim noshka!

It's an uphill battle. Hard everywhere I imagine, but especially so in the PRK.