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The majority of professors are far-left/liberal - about 60%. However, their influence isn't as great as you say. About 50% of freshmen students identify as moderate, 30% liberal, 20% conservative. Here's an article from Washpo that I know a reasonable guy like you will appreciate: "The dramatic shift among college professors that’s hurting students’ education:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/11/the-dramatic-shift-among-college-professors-thats-hurting-students-education/?utm_term=.dd3449fb9013 "numbers suggest that professors' liberal tilt does have some impact on their students' ideology, but not much. The proportion of students who characterized their political views as liberal or far left increased 9.2 percentage points from freshman to senior year. Among the college class of 2009, 39.1 percent identified as liberals, 38.5 percent called themselves moderates, and 22.5 percent said they were conservatives. While more liberal and less conservative than the general public, the seniors were also considerably less liberal and more conservative than the people who taught them. American politics seems to work best when the two main factions are animated by rigorous thinking and serious ideas. And if there's no home for conservative ideas at today's colleges, it stands to reason that our political discourse will be poorer for it." Now's ze time on shprockets ven we donce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHZR9SA5pOg That's all the time I have, untill next time - Auf Wiedersehen!

Nonsense. The handgun ban was in the early 80s. Gun homicide started to rise significantly by the late 80s till it peaked to an all time high in the early 90s. Newsweek: "Chicago’s modern history of gang violence, especially on its West and South sides, goes back to the 1960s. (As bad as 2016 is, the total number of murders will still be well below the over 900 annual murders in the early 1990s.) But over the past year, two things have accelerated the attacks, according to social workers and law enforcement authorities. Budget cuts reduced the number of anti-violence social workers who once cooled the simmering feuds, and a series of deadly police shootings and alleged misconduct by police have torpedoed the relationship between cops and residents. Over the past 18 months, the drawdown of police and social workers has led to an explosion of violence not seen in almost 20 years"

Clearly: http://www.haciendapub.com/sites/default/files/GunOwnershipVCrimeRate.jpg