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Captainunaccountable wrote:Why don't you just join the NRA and write about something more practical.

Captainunaccountable wrote:Why don't you just join the NRA and write about something more practical.

Seoulless wrote:

Captainunaccountable wrote:Why don't you just join the NRA and write about something more practical.

Why would you waste my time and yours with that completely unhelpful post?

guano wrote:

Seoulless wrote:

Captainunaccountable wrote:Why don't you just join the NRA and write about something more practical.

Why would you waste my time and yours with that completely unhelpful post?

because it's funny?

Saying you're a gun owner isn't doing much. Saying you are familiar with that professor's work, respect that professor, and want the opportunity to learn from him is a different matter

Seoulless wrote:

guano wrote:

Seoulless wrote:

Captainunaccountable wrote:Why don't you just join the NRA and write about something more practical.

Why would you waste my time and yours with that completely unhelpful post?

because it's funny?

Saying you're a gun owner isn't doing much. Saying you are familiar with that professor's work, respect that professor, and want the opportunity to learn from him is a different matter

I don't think you (or he) get my point, which is if saying you own a gun is or fall into the pro-gun camp is taboo.

There are clearly professors out there who believe that owning a gun is tantamount to collecting the ears of Vietnamese children.

ScottRiqui wrote:Does the professor head up some kind of "firearms policy" program at the school? I'm having a hard time seeing how the presence of one particular professor at a school is going to make enough of a difference in your education for it to be "a considerable reason" for applying there.

I mentioned recreational and competitive shooting under the "interests" part of my resume, but I wouldn't waste space on it in a PS or 'Why X'.

Seoulless wrote:

ScottRiqui wrote:Does the professor head up some kind of "firearms policy" program at the school? I'm having a hard time seeing how the presence of one particular professor at a school is going to make enough of a difference in your education for it to be "a considerable reason" for applying there.

I mentioned recreational and competitive shooting under the "interests" part of my resume, but I wouldn't waste space on it in a PS or 'Why X'.

I might as well say who it is. It's Judge Richard Posner, who wrote the majority decision effectively rendering Illinois a Shall-Issue state.

It's part of a greater point about the law school's being a good place for those like me who hold arguably controversial views.

Teoeo wrote:Mentioning gun ownership can only hurt you in my opinion. I can't envision a scenario under which your admission would be aided by mentioning it.

Seoulless wrote:

Teoeo wrote:Mentioning gun ownership can only hurt you in my opinion. I can't envision a scenario under which your admission would be aided by mentioning it.

Thanks man, for the clear answer. What about leaving that detail out, and instead going for the softer approach of using the judge's decision in a point about respecting diverse views?

guano wrote:I get your point, but I don't think you get mine.

Seoulless wrote:

Teoeo wrote:Mentioning gun ownership can only hurt you in my opinion. I can't envision a scenario under which your admission would be aided by mentioning it.

Thanks man, for the clear answer. What about leaving that detail out, and instead going for the softer approach of using the judge's decision in a point about respecting diverse views?

Richard Posner wrote:There are two important lessons that can be drawn from Becker’s discussion of gun control. The first is that a problem that is not dealt with in its early stages may become insoluble. It is not only the sheer infeasibility of removing 200 million guns from the American population, but also the emergence of a gun culture, that has ended hopes of disarming the population. The more people who own guns, the more other people will want to own them as well for self-defense; and the further ownership spreads, the more normal it seems. The ownership of guns has always been common in rural areas (the lower population density of the United States compared to Western Europe is an important reason why private ownership of guns is so much greater here), where there are hunting opportunities and police are spread thin. But now it is common in the rough areas of cities as well. Drug dealers cannot rely on police to enforce their deals and therefore have to arm themselves, and their law-abiding neighbors decide they had better be armed as well. (The news media create an exaggerated fear of violent crime, and this also contributes to the demand for guns by law-abiding people.) If population density continues to grow and the drug trade were legalized, gun ownership might begin to fall.

daryldixon wrote:I think the credited response here is to mention you own a gun and then mention your penis size (length and width). Then the ball is really in their court.

guano wrote:

Seoulless wrote:

Teoeo wrote:Mentioning gun ownership can only hurt you in my opinion. I can't envision a scenario under which your admission would be aided by mentioning it.

Thanks man, for the clear answer. What about leaving that detail out, and instead going for the softer approach of using the judge's decision in a point about respecting diverse views?

guano wrote:I get your point, but I don't think you get mine.

guano wrote:

Seoulless wrote:

Teoeo wrote:Mentioning gun ownership can only hurt you in my opinion. I can't envision a scenario under which your admission would be aided by mentioning it.

Thanks man, for the clear answer. What about leaving that detail out, and instead going for the softer approach of using the judge's decision in a point about respecting diverse views?

guano wrote:I get your point, but I don't think you get mine.