Friday, May 10, 2019

STEM students don't care for gun control, apparently

Slate has a report of an event that I'm guessing with thrill the American Right:  apparently, a "vigil" for the student killed in the school shooting this week turned out all strange when lots of students attending didn't like that it was a "political stunt" to talk about gun control.   (The report says they apparently weren't aware of it having been organised by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.)  
“I thought this was about us, not about politics,” one student said, according to the Washington Post. Another student argued that they were “not a statistic” and shouldn’t be cited to justify gun control: “We are people, not a statement.” 

The students held their phones’ flashlights into the air and chanted, “mental health, mental health.” They also confronted journalists, whom the Brady Center had invited to cover the event, calling them derogatory names, according to the Denver Post, and asking to see what photos they had taken.
Colorado is a swing state, apparently, and it seems Denver is more Democrat than other parts.   That makes this sort of reaction surprising, but I wonder if STEM students swing more Right wing than your average student.

Oh well, they will presumably get more shootings in future, if that's their attitude.   
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3 comments:

  1. Anonymous12:35 pm

    In other US maths news:
    Is this true?
    https://dakotafreepress.com/2019/05/11/arabic-numerals-in-school-draw-strong-opposition-in-brookings-register-poll/

    Is this satire?
    http://freedomnumerals.com/

    Geoff

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  2. Steve9:52 am

    Certainly, the second link has to be satirical. But the first story I think I have read something similar before.

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  3. GMB9:57 pm

    What has happened in the past is that there has been all these faked events with fake parents showing up dry-eyed and pushing the oligarchs gun-control agenda before their fake-kids are even fake-cold. People have started to notice this and its begun to become offensive. All the major gun attacks are false flags or faked events. So for example our attack in Tasmania was not, and could not have been, carried out by Martin Bryant. All the evidence goes against him as the killer.

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