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rosco.217 · March 5, 2009, 11:01 PM

I agree with Double Naught Spy, a difference in department or major often can mean a difference in the views of the majority of the individuals. Reminds me of a discussion section I had for an Engineering and the Environment class, it was a core class that was mainly full of undecided majors that were in the class for the environment part, where I was outnumbered about 20 to 1 when it came to my stance on gun rights and guns in general. I was all but crucified one day when we had to rate a list of items from the most dangerous to the least dangerous in which handguns were included and ended up in the top three on 90% of the lists. It amazed me how uneducated and ridiculous some of the statements that were made were. There was actually a group of people that thought police officers should not be allowed to carry while on duty.

March 5, 2009, 11:01 PM	#20
rosco.217 Member Join Date: March 3, 2009 Posts: 19	I agree with Double Naught Spy, a difference in department or major often can mean a difference in the views of the majority of the individuals. Reminds me of a discussion section I had for an Engineering and the Environment class, it was a core class that was mainly full of undecided majors that were in the class for the environment part, where I was outnumbered about 20 to 1 when it came to my stance on gun rights and guns in general. I was all but crucified one day when we had to rate a list of items from the most dangerous to the least dangerous in which handguns were included and ended up in the top three on 90% of the lists. It amazed me how uneducated and ridiculous some of the statements that were made were. There was actually a group of people that thought police officers should not be allowed to carry while on duty.