VA Tech professor touts radical new advance in weapons technology

St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 3 October, 2012 | Kurt Hofmann

[marktwain]

The self-described "progressive" Democracy Now! news program recently interviewed Virginia Tech professor Nikki Giovanni, who taught a class in which VA Tech mass murderer Seung-Hui Cho was (briefly) a student, before she demanded that he leave the class. In the interview, Professor Giovanni advanced some rather startling notions about guns:

"I think that guns are not one of our good ideas. I read the Constitution, and I didn’t see anything that said that any fool that wants a gun should have one. What did I miss?"

Well, one thing she seems to have missed is that the Constitution does not say that "any fool that [sic] wants a" vote should have one, but prospective voters are not required to prove their intelligence. This, of course, is exactly as it should be, because among other problems, such a system would make virtual kings out of those on whom was conferred the power of determining who the "fools" were. Exactly the same problem would apply to restricting firearms in that manner.

She also claimed that if Virginia Tech ever permitted students to carry concealed firearms in class, she would enact a class rule requiring that she and every student "drop [their] clothes outside the door, and we’re going to come in in underwear that is form-fitting," for every class session, so no guns could be concealed (good luck getting that rule to withstand legal scrutiny). She claims the reason for that rule would be that "I’m not going to try to teach somebody that I don’t know what’s in his pocket." How she knows now what students have in their pockets is left unexplained. She certainly did not explain how wearing only their tight-fitting underwear would have helped any of Cho's victims.

Perhaps most startling, though, was her next claim:

[Secret Agent Man]

they are both the man. two lesbians imitating two old men. well you can’t get any yummier than that. /s

[buffaloguy]

One of the questions on the certification test for chemistry teachers is to balance a chemical equation that starts out:

Kno3....

I cracked up when I saw it as I was drilling my wife for the test. It is the equation for the firing of black powder. Texas is a whole different country.

[marktwain]

A man-portable power source capable of generating the energies needed to make something equal to even the common rifle isn't even on the technological radar screen.

I am not so certain. Electrical propulsion is potentially so much more efficient that an electrical equivalent of a 9mm sub-machine gun might be able to run off of lithium ion batteries. Not that there are significant advantages that I can see. I ran the energy numbers once, and if you can convert the electricity to velocity at 80 percent efficiency, you got quite a few shots out of ordinary batteries. It is the conversion process that is difficult, but I can envision a sort of rail gun using electromagnetic shuttles that offset each other.. Guns are a very inefficient heat engine.

[Mad Dawg]

Only a Ph.D.could be so stupid.

[SIDENET]

OH LAWD!