More education dollars hard at work. This little nugget comes to us via our friends at Campus Reform and UC Irvine, where in the wake of the San Bernardino shootings, an instructor by the name of Richard Symanski felt it was more than appropriate to address and urge his class to go out and pitch gun control to the masses. What Symanski didn’t know is that student, Peter Van Voorhis caught the whole rant on his phone:

According to The American Association of University Professors, “Teachers are entitled to freedom in the classroom in discussing their subject, but they should be careful not to introduce into their teaching controversial matter which has no relation to their subject.” Mr. Symanski’s subject of expertise? Biology. The subjects of his unprofessional and biased tirade? Students in his Introductory Biological Sciences course. Not sure what the correlation between biology and gun control and how the spewing of his political agenda has to do with the subject matter of his class, but he’s the “smart” one here. I’m sure he’ll come up with some twaddle on how this is relevant. Otherwise, this could be grounds for termination although I wouldn’t bank on it.

Symanski starts off by saying that he does not want to go off on the Republicans and the NRA. He contradicts himself later on:

Who’s the big culprit of this? Well the big culprit is…the NRA—the National Rifle Association—which is enormously powerful in this country, in a way that you and I can’t imagine.

Clearly, he may be a biological sciences wizard but this genius contradicts his whole argument with this: