It's Not The Guns, It's The Professors

Interesting.

In the wake of tragic mass murders at a handful of college campuses, a nationally syndicated political and social columnist suggests that perhaps the blame rests at the feet of teachers at our universities.

Wait. Aren't guns the reasons for these shootings? Isn't it what the kids watched on TV?

Writes Bob Parks: ". . . there will be one direction that fingers will not be pointed: at the faculty and the climate they’ve created on campus. Think about it. Going to school nowadays must be a bummer, for the most part. You have the notion drummed into your little head that the world is coming to an end because you left your dorm light on while you went to the bathroom. The curse of “man-made” global warming is something their professors claim will come to fruition during their students’ lifetime."

Wow. He continues:

"You have some women’s studies departments that push the idea that men still seek to keep females barefoot and pregnant. The idea could be pushed, depending
on the intensity of the professor, that all men are capable of rape. Female students will find it very difficult to trust any man she meets, and most male students will find themselves resentful of being lumped in with those who are disrespectful of women."

I can see how this would be worrisome and frustrating, even frightening, to any student thrown into the blender of college life.

"On one hand, they’re taught from Day One that their campus is a place that embraces the free expression of ideas. However, they’re later told they can’t make comments about this person, or that group, or against this issue. They’re taught to respect everyone, because hurting anyone’s feelings is wrong. But should a “controversial” speaker come to share ideas, those same students are encouraged to exhibit the very hate they were told never to display."

Okay, now we've moved from students being merely worried and fearful, to flat out confused. If you didn't know, the apparent contradictions found on campus are almost never addressed. What's next?

"Instead of just going to college and many enjoying their first time truly out on their own, some enter an environment that can truly drive an immature mind insane. Imagine how easy it could be to tweak a narcissistic or paranoid high schooler into a temporary state of madness?"

Parks concludes with a number of questions, among them: "Would it cause students to kill?"

"Optimism is not naïveté. Schools should be tasked with inspiring students; not bumming them out and leaving them with a feeling of the sheer futility that is life. Many of these recent shooters have not only targeted innocents, but they saved the last bullet for themselves."

An intriguing observation, indeed.

Read his entire column. There is much more. Mr. Parks' summation of student frustration and the contradictions found on campus almost reads like an ad for the documentary "Indoctrinate U," which has stirred controversy at universities and colleges around the nation. Mostly among faculty and administrators who don't like their dirty laundry aired.