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:

“People don’t kill because they have a gun, they kill because of mental illness.”

This unbeknownst contradiction does not stop him in his tracks from pushing his agenda further:

If we don’t have access to the damn thing, we can’t kill anybody. We might beat the s&%! out of them, we might cut them with a knife, but we’re not going to kill 14 people and put another 17 people in the hospital.

If you want a cause—want to get on a bandwagon—then get these guns outlawed, and do something about the Second Amendment.

People don’t kill because they have guns, they kill because of mental illness. Or they kill because they are straight-up terrorists, Mr. Symanski. They hate the whole lot of us. They even hate you and your little idealistic, utopian world that you live in. They won’t come out and say they hate you. They’ll enjoy the fact that you are spewing your passion for gun control to young, impressionable minds. And then, when you least expect it, they will come out of nowhere for the attack.

The attack on San Bernardino was not initiated by gun-owning, law-abiding citizens who are voluntary members of the NRA. Newsflash, Mr. Symanski: The NRA is funded in part by paid memberships of American citizens who choose to support the organization. Voluntary membership, sir. Symanski should have probably stuck to the topic of evolution and debunking Christianity or another little ditty from the college professor’s greatest hits album such as climate change.

Symanski throws in a little anecdote about a gentleman he “talked to for two days and got nowhere” about not carrying a gun. He said, and I quote, “I might as well be talking to myself in a padded cell”. A padded cell, huh? Sounds like a good plan to me.