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Probably not a good way to protest

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Won't let me read the link unless i turn off my AD Blocker.
Nope.
I really would like to comment, but can't do it intelligently until after i have read the article.
This is only fair.

I can only say this to that idiot.
Trump will be gone in two or six more years.
The permanent damage you did to your arm will be with you as long as you are alive.
That was really dumb, Prof.
Does someone you have never met really have this much influence on your life?
 
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Thank you.
Sociology Professor. Surprise me.
Now not only is his arm damaged, but according to the article, he is also facing several charges for bring a gun on campus and actually firing it.
I guess he sure showed Trump this time!

Are these Trump haters completely loosing their minds?
It was silly and amusing when they all gathered on the street at night and screamed their heads off, but now they are using guns on themselves?
Is there even one Democrat that thinks this behavior is a bit off-plumb?
 
Thank you.
Sociology Professor. Surprise me.
Now not only is his arm damaged, but according to the article, he is also facing several charges for bring a gun on campus and actually firing it.
I guess he sure showed Trump this time!

Are these Trump haters completely loosing their minds?
It was silly and amusing when they all gathered on the street at night and screamed their heads off, but now they are using guns on themselves?
Is there even one Democrat that thinks this behavior is a bit off-plumb?

A report in the Las Vegas Review-Journal said that Mark Bird, a sociology professor at the College of Southern Nevada (CSN), has been charged with discharging a gun within a prohibited structure, carrying a concealed weapon without a permit and possessing a dangerous weapon on school property.
 
Probably was going to blame it on KKK white supremacists wearing MAGA caps.
 
Won't let me read the link unless i turn off my AD Blocker.
Nope.
I really would like to comment, but can't do it intelligently until after i have read the article.
This is only fair.

I can only say this to that idiot.
Trump will be gone in two or six more years.
The permanent damage you did to your arm will be with you as long as you are alive.
That was really dumb, Prof.
Does someone you have never met really have this much influence on your life?

Remember the flaming Monk during Vietnam? Quietly sitting in meditation as he self immolated?

For all the good it did.
 
Remember the flaming Monk during Vietnam? Quietly sitting in meditation as he self immolated?

For all the good it did.

I thought of that too. What a coward! Shot himself in the arm with a .22? Possibly he has dementia?
 
Probably not a good way to protest if a person does not understand what to protest or what protesting is all about
 
Thank you.
Sociology Professor. Surprise me.
Now not only is his arm damaged, but according to the article, he is also facing several charges for bring a gun on campus and actually firing it.
I guess he sure showed Trump this time!

Are these Trump haters completely loosing their minds?
It was silly and amusing when they all gathered on the street at night and screamed their heads off, but now they are using guns on themselves?
Is there even one Democrat that thinks this behavior is a bit off-plumb?

More with adblocker (I use it too) https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime...ofessor-shot-himself-in-arm-to-protest-trump/

A longtime College of Southern Nevada sociology professor is facing felony gun charges in connection with an on-campus shooting on the second day of classes.
Mark J. Bird was charged last month with discharging a gun within a prohibited structure, carrying a concealed weapon without a permit and possessing a dangerous weapon on school property, court records show. He was found bleeding from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his arm about 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 28 outside a bathroom in the Charleston campus K building.
Inside the bathroom, campus police found a $100 bill taped to a mirror along with a note that said, “For the janitor,” according to Bird’s arrest report. On the floor of the restroom was a black-and-white, .22-caliber pistol and one spent shell casing.
The sociology professor was hired Aug. 26, 1993, and was an emeritus faculty member at the time of the shooting, college spokesman Richard Lake said. Bird was not scheduled to teach any courses during the fall 2018 semester.
Bird was employed with the college as of Tuesday, although Lake said it was not clear what disciplinary actions, if any, would be taken against him.
A 911 call was made after several CSN employees and at least one student saw Bird stumble out of the bathroom, bleeding, before he collapsed, the report said. None of the witnesses — who later told police they only recalled hearing “a loud noise” — initially knew that Bird was armed and had shot himself, according to the report.
One college employee told police that he held Bird’s hand to calm him down as others tried to stop the bleeding. While waiting for authorities to arrive, Bird said he had shot himself in protest of President Donald Trump, police noted in their report. The report did not elaborate.
A campus-wide alert was sent about 9 a.m. the day of the shooting, deeming the scene safe and alerting students that the firearm had been recovered. Except for a short mention in the lengthy September edition of “The Chronicle,” the college president’s monthly newsletter emailed to staff, the college did not disclose any more details about the shooting.
The brief update was at the bottom of the newsletter and did not name Bird as the suspect. Federico Zaragoza, who in August was named the college’s ninth president, wrote at the end of his newsletter, “I appreciate all of the expressions of concern and interest, and I pledge to keep everyone updated should the situation change.”
On Tuesday, Robert Manis, president of the college’s faculty union, Nevada Faculty Alliance, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he has heard a number of rumors about the shooting in the last two weeks. He expressed concerns about the way the college handled the shooting and about its lack of transparency afterward.

“They never really told the students much about it except that it was resolved on the actual day of the shooting,” he said. “When you don’t give the full details, then rumors go crazy. It’s unfortunate because it made the students and faculty very afraid and allowed rumors to proliferate.”
Lake declined to comment further Tuesday, but he noted that college officials met with faculty and staff immediately after the shooting to provide support and to take suggestions.
 
TDS is no game. Knife attack, then this right on the heels.

They are coming unhinged. Moderates need to flee the party like Residents of the Coastal Carolinas are as I type.
 
So we take one idiot and extraploate him to represent all protestors? Now that's some idiocy right there!
 
Well that was not very wise... but somehow he will end up a champion of the cause (don't ask me how.)
 
A report in the Las Vegas Review-Journal said that Mark Bird, a sociology professor at the College of Southern Nevada (CSN), has been charged with discharging a gun within a prohibited structure, carrying a concealed weapon without a permit and possessing a dangerous weapon on school property.

Man, if ONLY we had some laws to restrict access to dangerous firearms from the liberal crazies out there...they're a real danger to us all.






(Sorry, couldn't resist.)
 
So we take one idiot and extraploate him to represent all protestors? Now that's some idiocy right there!

Kinda like how the media took that one redneck at a Trump rally?
 
So we take one idiot and extraploate him to represent all protestors? Now that's some idiocy right there!
Oh the inhumanity! It sounds like something CNN would do!
 
As bad as this Democrat is, who shot himself in the arm, he is not nearly as bad as DJDouchebagTrump,
who shoots himself in the foot just about every f***ing time he opens his goddam mouth.
 
As bad as this Democrat is, who shot himself in the arm, he is not nearly as bad as DJDouchebagTrump,
who shoots himself in the foot
just about every f***ing time he opens his goddam mouth.

Yeah....but that's not illegal. ( yet)
 
Man, if ONLY we had some laws to restrict access to dangerous firearms from the liberal crazies out there...they're a real danger to us all.






(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

It is every adult's inherent right to shoot themselves.
 
I thought of that too. What a coward! Shot himself in the arm with a .22? Possibly he has dementia?

That monk’s courage, composure and dignity was off the charts, but I wouldn’t call shooting one’s self in the arm with a 22 cowardly. I think it would take a bit of courage to do. Doesn’t mean it wasn’t a ridiculous thing to do, of course.
 
That monk’s courage, composure and dignity was off the charts, but I wouldn’t call shooting one’s self in the arm with a 22 cowardly. I think it would take a bit of courage to do. Doesn’t mean it wasn’t a ridiculous thing to do, of course.

Go big or go home, like my friend a few months ago, holstered 1911 with hollow points, he fell on his stairs and shot himself in the leg (on accident)

He made a torniquit and took 20 minutes to drag himself to the phone. A first responder said that was the most blood (and tissue) he has ever seen on a scene, and the person survived.

Asides from swelling if he pushes himself to hard, he has made a full recovery.
 
Thank you.
Sociology Professor. Surprise me.
Now not only is his arm damaged, but according to the article, he is also facing several charges for bring a gun on campus and actually firing it.
I guess he sure showed Trump this time!

Are these Trump haters completely loosing their minds?
It was silly and amusing when they all gathered on the street at night and screamed their heads off, but now they are using guns on themselves?
Is there even one Democrat that thinks this behavior is a bit off-plumb?

That's a dumb question. Is there a pattern of Democrats allegedly shooting themselves in bathrooms to protest? If not, then I'd say that roughly ALL (minus 1, allegedly) Democrats don't find that strategy to be a wise one.

And I'm not sure why you'd find protests "silly and amusing." Protests have a long history in this country and elsewhere, often playing a big part in changing that history.
 
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