Let's predict which LSD'ers will be gunners next year

[UGAfootballfanatic]

OK, we all know what gunners are, and the more posts I read the more I think I can pick out who will qualify as class-A gunners next year. My guess? Boblaw, Latinlord...
feel free to make your guesses.

EDIT: as I'm not trying to intentionally hurt anyone's feelings, please take this in good fun.

[Steve Butabi]

tfm

[sarmstrong806]

Court won't be one, but she'll have to fight the urge damn hard.

[practiceboy02]

BassDesire, John Galt, and Vannabunny (if she were going next year)

[lovelovelovenyc]

Forgive me, I'm in the dark on some LSD speak.  What is a gunner?

[Slow Blues]

Forgive me, I'm in the dark on some LSD speak.  What is a gunner?

Umm, I think it's someone who's always trying to answer in class, you know the suck-up, you know the person who's read three or four classes ahead... basically the guy/girl you didn't like b/c they felt a constant need to prove how much smarter they are than everyone else. I could be wrong though.

[sarmstrong806]

Forgive me, I'm in the dark on some LSD speak.  What is a gunner?

Gunners are the people that try to answer every question and try to be insanely prepared, so much so that they are annoying.

Someone add on to that.

[lovelovelovenyc]

ahhh, thanks everyone.

BassDesire, John Galt, and Vannabunny (if she were going next year)

nah, they seem too cool.  i feel that the gunners will come from certain other law school discussion sites.

[sck]

I've always thought of gunners as the overly-aggressive suck-ups. Sort o a combionation: they obnoxiously know the answers and try to suck up, as well. Think Hermione Granger, but not necessarily as genuinely bright.

I'd probably try to be obnoxiously prepared if only because I'm paranoid. Once I get to law school I'm sure I'll feel a compulsion to do much much better than my coasting in undergrad.

[Slow Blues]

Although I am certainly showing my own ignorance here, I'm curiouys what definition we're using for "gunner."  I've heard conflicting opinions on what a gunner is.  Some say that gunners are those overly-agressive students who study too much, answer every question in class (always correctly and usually with more detail than you knew was possible) and correct other students in class if they are even the tiniest bit incorrect.

However, I have heard others say that guners are not those who add substantively to the discussion, but rather those who try to get points by sucking-up endlessly; who don't give answers but constantly ask questions (often tangentical to the topic); who drop the names of books they have read and judges they have met at every occaision without giving any indication that they've actually read anything on the case at hand.

So, which definition are we using (or is there yet a third defintion of which I am unaware)?

I guess the first definition?

I'd rather be a sniper, the guy who sits in the last row of the class, never asks a single question, nobody knows who he/she is, and gets nothing but straight A's.