Could you please, for once, practice some journalistic standards of integrity and objectivity, instead of feeding your drooling viewers the usual, tainted pabulum that appears extracted from your collective asses after a particularly rancid meal of rotten eggs and month-old oysters?

Yes, I mean YOU, Dylan Ratigan!  You appear completely incapable of not only objective, but rational thought, as demonstrated by your condemnation of Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s decision to keep biased, politically tainted, hysterical gun safety banning agenda out of Virginia’s classrooms.

Apparently Ratigan was pissing his frilly panties over the decision to keep the National Crime Prevention Council’s (NCPC) histrionics about gun safety out of our schools.  This is the kind of indoctrination Ratigan would like to see Virginia’s children undergo.

Objective

  • To
    explore the impact on society when a person dies prematurely from gun
    violence
  • To develop research and critical-thinking skills

Activity

  • Discuss with students the dangers of guns.
    Review what they should do if they find a gun.
  • Share
    with them that when people die from being shot, they can no longer do
    good things for their families or for society.
  • Assign
    students to groups of four or five, and have them select a
    historical figure who was killed by gun violence.     Possibilities
    include Martin Luther King, Jr.; John F. Kennedy; Abraham Lincoln; and
    Mahatma Gandhi. Have each group research the person they chose and list
    the positive contributions he or she made to society.
  • Ask
    students to predict how these individuals might have continued their
    work if they hadn’t been killed by gun violence.
  • Have
    each group present a biography of the individual they researched and
    their ideas of what the individual could have done if he or she had
    not died from gun violence.
  • Have each member of
    the group write a diary entry that takes place five years after the
    person died and shares what the person could have done if the person
    had lived. The students may choose to write the entry from the point of
    view of the individual or of a third party who had been influenced by
    the individual’s work (e.g., someone who heard Martin Luther King, Jr.
    give a speech).
  • Extend this into a service project by
    having students design a memorial for people killed by gun violence.
    They may choose to plant a tree or design a peace quilt to display in
    the school’s lobby.

Wow… there’s a difference.  And even police officers deem the NRA’s gun safety program very effective.

That, of course, doesn’t matter to Ratigan, whose primary mission is not the education of children about gun safety, but rather the indoctrination and brainwashing of our children into hysterical hatred of a tool, a leftard political agenda and an avoidance of personal responsibility.

Really, (P)MSNBC!  Could you please put on your big girl panties and stop with the quivering vagina ache because some big, bad Republican has derailed your political goals! 

It’s getting old.  I’m not even sure anyone actually considers you a real news source any longer!

h/t: Jeff Soyer