P.S., a couple of quick war stories:

I took a constituional law class in school. We were assigned to write a paper on on one of the amendments. You can guess which one I chose. I went to my prof's office to discuss it and he had a Handgun Control Inc. poster on the wall that was about 3'x5'. He disagreed with most of my paper, but I got an A-.

I had a prof for a political science course, he was a county councilman. He wrote a semi-auto ban for the council to consider. I took his final exam on a Monday night. The public hearing on the bill was the next night. I got there early and was the first one to sign up to speak, because I had another final that night. When I spoke I blasted his legislation, politely and professionally, of course, then drove a half-hour to school wondering what I just did to my final grade. Got an A...