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Jim Beaux wrote:Also an anti gun policy would deter athletes from participating in ROTC.

The flaw in this logic is that the anti-gun crowd is OK with the military and police having guns --just not us peasants. OTOH, Mojo's list of player activities does suggest the policy may not apply to legal gun use.

mojo84 wrote:Here's a question. Why isn't the "no drugs" part in question too? There are many drugs that are illegal and many that are legal. Do you assume he means no aspirin, tylenol or other legal medicine or just the illegal drugs or illegal use of legal drugs? Do we need to get him to address that he only means the illegal drugs or the illegal use of drugs? It's all about context. Now if there are things being said and written that I have not seen or am not privy to, I may change my opinion. Until then, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. Whether anyone else does or not it totally up to them.

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I don't think the comparison is apt. "No drugs" is generally understood to refer specifically to illegal drugs. When there is a campaign slogan like "just say no to drugs" they don't modify drugs with "illegal." OTOH, the mayors against "illegal" guns feel compelled for propaganda purposes to misrepresent their actual position because they know calling themselves mayors against guns would be politically unpalatable. People who refer to themselves as "drug free" don't say they're "illegal drug free." OTOH, if someone posts a legally insufficient "no guns" sign, we all know that they don't mean no illegal guns, they mean no guns at all. So, given the larger social context and the fact that he makes no distinction between legal and illegal guns, I'm inclined to take his "no guns" policy at face value.

mojo84 wrote:I just received an email from an insurance sales consultant, Randy Schwantz, that had a link to his a video he produced using Charlie Strong's "core values" as an example. You may find it of interest if you can overlook his OK Sooner shirt.

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I was prepared to believe that the "no guns" policy was a deliberate media misrepresentation until I watched the video. Since no effort was made to make a distinction it sure sounds like it is intended to apply to all uses of a gun.