Brent, we've disagreed before and we surely disagree now. I'm reasonably well-educated, well-read and well-informed, and I most emphatically disagree with your opinion on this subject. I know many 'educators' and other academics, in fact I trained for the teaching profession for many years and spent a fair amount of my professional life as an instructor (NOT a teacher, an instructor) of technical & math studies at the nuke plant. When you meet the academics who frequent the rifle range or gun show, at least around here, you're meeting the folks who are generally the bottom knots on the academic committee yoyo string. I know and shoot with quite a few college professors and each of them is a fine fellow himself, but each will be quick to tell you of the vicious infighting over budgets and political correctness and 'relevance' and 'image' and other trivia that goes on in the more rarified academic atmospheres. Most of my friends choose to keep away from such infighting and so the committees are largely left to the more-PC types.
I used to belong to the local sports car club, an organization thoroughly infested with college professors and other politically-correct academic types. Most of the males and many of the females appeared to be repelled by my gunsmithing hobby, and many even tried to involve me in defending the shooting sports against their innuendos and outright attacks.(!)
Brent, you are fortunate to have been spared this unpleasantness but please don't think for a minute that your experience is typical.
Regards, Joe
