Pro-Gun Prof Fired

PC continues it's effort to choke free speech. When Prof. Winsett attempts to make a case for self defense, the college makes his point by firing him.

An adjunct professor at Emmanuel College was fired last week following a classroom discussion about the Virginia Tech shootings that included him pointing a marker at some students and saying "pow."

The five-minute demonstration last Wednesday included a discussion of gun control, whether to respond to violence with violence, and the public's "celebration of victimhood," he said.

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Winset pretended to shoot some students in the class. Then one student pretended to shoot Winset to illustrate his point that Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho may have been stopped had another student or faculty member been armed.

Winset, 37, has posted an 18-minute video defending his actions on YouTube.com under the title "Fired Professor Speaks Out!"

Winset said administrators had asked faculty members to engage students on the issue. Instead, he got a letter Friday saying he was fired and ordering him to stay off campus.

The college said on Monday that Winset's firing "had nothing to do with academic freedom" but rather "his insensitivity toward the students who were murdered at Virginia Tech" and "his use of obscene and discriminatory language which is not tolerated from students, faculty or staff at this institution."

Winset was "disparaging the victims as rich white kids combined with an obscene epithet. He did not do this as part of an open debate with his students," the statement said.

"The last weapon in the empty arsenal of the politically correct is to call someone a bigot, and that's pretty much what they're doing here," Winset told The Boston Globe in response to Emmanuel's latest statement.

Winset said he had already informed the school that he would not return next semester because he had another job.

Still, some students questioned the college's decision. Winset said he has received supportive e-mails from seven students.

Student Junny Lee, 19, told The Boston Globe that most students did not appear to find Winset's demonstration offensive, and the administration should have interviewed students before dismissing the professor with less than two weeks left in the semester.

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