Oh, Law School Discussion…how I’ve missed thee. I know I’ve written about gunners before but can we just acknowledge this ridiculousness? The topic of the thread is: “How To Respond To People Calling You a Gunner?”
Gunner: Last semester I amply and vastly participated in class and I could decipher my classmates’ opinion of said participation. How best to respond to these (to put it generously) rather immature individuals?
The first response (by “Stole Your Nose!“) was rather good:
It’s called LSD for a reason.
I finally started a thread at Law School Discussion. I asked what people thought of the Joe Horn case, in which a Texan (Horn) capped two burglars who were robbing his neighbor’s house.
Horn even told the 911 Operator that he was going to kill the robbers –
This sums up what happened:
Operator: Mr. Horn, do not go out the house.
Horn: I’m sorry. This ain’t right, buddy.
Operator: You’re going to get yourself shot if you go outside that house with that gun. I don’t care what you think. Stay in the house.
Horn: You wanna make a bet? I’m gonna kill ’em.
The discussion on LSD has been interesting, but a bit disturbing too.
All of the participants are law students or future law students. Some of the law students have looked up statutes to support their arguments, but others have basically said, “Good. Thank good these illegals got shot. They had it coming. If you’re stupid enough to rob someone, you’re stupid enough to get capped. So what if a private citizen has more authority to kill someone than a cop? GOOD. Let the neighborhood watch dispense the death penalty.”
I also love how you can’t kill someone who punches you and walks away, or someone who has raped a child, but you can (in theory) kill someone who has stolen a bag of chips from the grocery store.
I’m curious how a professor would deal with that type of logic in class.
“He would need to do serious gymwork once he started his job, days away now. It was no good spending eight hours at the office, ten hours, then going straight home. He would need to burn things off, test his body, direct himself inward, working on his strength, stamina, agility, sanity. He would need an offsetting discipline, a form of controlled behavior, voluntary, that kept him from shambling into the house and hating everybody.” – Don DeLillo (from Falling Man)
My schedule has been (fairly) lawless this summer. The goal for July is to reign in my sleep schedule and step up my workouts.
Freshman year I was 160lbs and worked out religiously. I graduated at just over 200lbs and yeah, that’s not a good look. I can’t make up for three years of neglect in one month, but I can start in the right direction.
The plan is to move from treadmilling to outdoor running. I want to improve my endurance without the guilt-inducing dreadmill dictating the pace for me.
I hope the newly earned endurance will correlate with better grades. Some professors say that marathoners are among their best students. I’ve also seen students (like Jessie, from Boy in Suit) express regret that they didn’t work out more. I’m toying with the idea of a marathon…but I’ll be happy with just maintaining the running schedule during the Minnesota Winter. Yikes.
Other things: