Guns, Grades and Dunkin Donuts

By Antonia Okafor

First and foremost, before I begin, I think it’s very important that you know this..

I am writing this article in a local Starbucks with my Apple laptop that bares a “I love Guns and Coffee” sticker on the front where the apple logo should be. All while sipping on Dunkin Donuts coffee in protest, of course, of Starbuck’s anti-gun policies and culture.

Now that we have that settled, let me proceed to the ridiculousness that is, from a more macro level, the Professors against campus carry outrage. Specifically, one Meredith Clark, Associate Professor at the University of North Texas and author of the recently published, “I’m a Black Female College Professor in Texas. Should I Get a Gun?” with our “unbiased” friends at The Trace.

(SIDE NOTE: Assoc Prof Clark teaches such courses as Introduction to Media Writing and Comparative International Media Systems, which makes this article all the more delicious to serve up to you)

As a campus carry activist, law school bound graduate student and oh yes, black female, I find Professor Clark’s arguments against her student’s right to own a firearm and meddle with the outlandish concept of, “self defense” particularly condescending. Not …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms