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The Pen is Mightier
and More Dangerous
The Knox Report
From the Firearms Coalition
By Jeff Knox
(May 6, 2008) When Steven Barber turned in his midterm
creative writing assignment at the University of Virginias
College at Wise (UVA-Wise), he was hoping for a good grade
to complement his 3.9 grade point average. Instead, Barber
was expelled from school, locked in a mental institution for
three days, and had his concealed carry permit revoked.
Barbers fictional story was a first person narrative of a
troubled college student consumed by depression, paranoia,
drug addiction, and alcoholism as he struggles with one of
tragedys recurrent themes, To be or not to be. The
character progresses through fear, anger, and despair;
sleeping with a gun under his pillow after the Virginia Tech
massacre, contemplating the murder of an unpleasant
professor, and finally deciding on suicide. The entire
story is just contemplation no characters, real or
fictional were harmed in the telling of the story and
Barber himself is nothing like the character he
described.
But Barbers professor, Christopher Scalia, son
of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and some of the
class members were uncomfortable with the story. No one
complained about another students paper which included
violent, bloody murder, but that carnage was carried out
with a knife while Barbers character had a gun. Perhaps
someone in the class knew that Barber owned guns and feared
that the character in the story represented its authors
secret desires. Whatever their motivation, their concerns
were shared with the college administration who decided to
involve the campus police. Within 24 hours of sharing his
writing project, Barber was confronted by campus police who
questioned him about his frame of mind, searched his person
and his room, and asked him about weapons. Barber,
believing he had Virginia law on his side, admitted that he
did have three pistols locked in his car whereupon the
police searched the car and confiscated the guns.
Tragedy Proves Parks Not Safe
embroiled in a case
(http://www.ohioccw.org/content/view/3956/83/) before the
Ohio Supreme Court, fighting against the City of Clyde (and
all anti-gun municipalities) who passed an ordinance banning
firearms in their public parks (in violation of statewide
preemption).
The anti-gun crowd will have you believe that
you don't need your gun in a park and that banning guns make
people feel safe. Of course, feeling safe and being safe are
actually two different things entirely.
Today, the
newscasts are rife with stories
(http://www.chroniclet.com/2008/05/07/one-stranger-terrorizes-her-%e2%80%94-but-others-save-her/)
about the woman who was abducted from the Lorain County
Metro Parks Carlisle Reservation, shot in the back, and
raped.
National Parks Ban Call For Action
The Virginia Citizens Defense League (http://www.vcdl.org)
has issued a call for action in the efforts to overturn the
ban on firearms in National Parks. OFCC was one of the
signatories of the VCDL petition to overturn the ban, and we
support their
efforts.
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As you know,
the Department of the Interior (DOI) has finally
published
a proposed change to the National Park and National Wildlife
Refuge rules.
The question is -- Does this DOI change
fairly address either the
concerns expressed in a letter
signed by 51 Senators or VCDL's
Petition for Rule Making
(PRM)?
-- The letter signed by the 51 Senators states
that they support "an
exception...to allow law-abiding
citizens to transport and carry
firearms consistent with
state law where the National Park Service's
sites and the
National Wildlife Refuges are located."
-- The Petition
for Rule Making (PRM) submitted by VCDL requested
DOI
regulations be modified to "permit citizens to carry
operational
handguns for personal protection in National
Parks, consistent with
the laws of the state in which the
park is located".
Does DOI's proposed change do either of
the above? NO!
Update on Castle Doctrine Legislation
On May 1st, the House Criminal Justice Committee of eight
Republicans and seven Democrats accepted Substitute House
Bill (HB) 264. There was no discussion and no objection
from any of the committee members prior to its acceptance.
The bills language is now identical (except for one
technical issue characterized by one legislator as
"insignificant") to the language of Substitute Senate Bill
(SB) 184. Substitute SB 184 passed the full Senate
unanimously on April 16, 2008.
Under the proposed
legislation, an individual (or his legal representative) who
was in the process of committing one or more of the violent
crimes listed in the bill would not be able to bring a civil
lawsuit against an individual who used deadly force to
prevent death or serious bodily harm to himself or others.
If the deadly force was used in ones home or vehicle, there
is a presumption of self defense and the burden of proof
otherwise is on the prosecutor. If the deadly force was
used anywhere else the burden of proof is on the person who
used deadly force to prove it was necessary.
OFCC member
Gary Witt attended the House committee meeting on behalf of
OFCC. He was told by legislators that the House and Senate
leadership will determine which bill moves forward. "It
would seem", Witt said, "that having identical language in
both bills will make the process easier."
Committee
schedules and their agendas are normally posted on Friday
afternoons for the following week. Please visit this link
(http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/house_committee_schedule.cfm)
for the Criminal Justice Committee. Full text of the
Substitute SB 184 can be found here
(http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=127_SB_184).
Substitute HB 264 is not available online as of this
writing.
Meet, Greet, Shoot, Eat at The Salem Hunting Club of Ohio
OFCC Forum regulars are all too familiar with the rally
cry Meet and Greet!, a term often used for members to
get together and meet one another while breaking bread.
On
July 19, 2008 members will gather in Salem, Ohio for a new
type of get together:
Meet, Greet, Shoot and Eat!
The
Salem Hunting Club of Ohio will be the site for this OFCC
hosted social gathering. Members will enjoy a day of
camaraderie, various shooting events and then capping the
day with a local meal.
For more information, you can look
here
(http://ohioccwforums.org/viewtopic.php?p=231954#231954).
Salem
Hunting Club of Ohio
546 Indiana Ave. (off St. Rt.
62)
Salem, Ohio 44460
www.salemhuntingclubofohio.com
Gag on 2nd Amendment Is City`s Aim in Guns Suit
By: NRA-ILA
Lawyers for Mayor Bloomberg are asking a judge to ban any
reference to the Second Amendment during the upcoming trial
of a gun shop owner who was sued by the city. While trials
are often tightly choreographed, with lawyers routinely
instructed to not tell certain facts to a jury, a gag order
on a section of the Constitution would be an oddity.
Gun Owners For Hillary?
By: NRA-ILA
If you doubt the transformational power of Barack Obama,
consider the change that he’s affected on Hillary Clinton.
The New York Senator came into the 2008 race with a nearly
perfect anti-gun rights voting record, following her White
House tenure on behalf of the most aggressively anti-Second
Amendment administration in American history.
Too Late to the Duck Hunt
By: NRA-ILA
By the time Hillary Clinton figured out how to beat Barack
Obama, it was too late. When she began the race in 2007
thinking she was in for a coronation, she claimed the center
in order to position herself for the real fight, the general
election. She simply assumed the party activists and loony
left would fall in behind her.
Gun control advocates target state legislators
By: NRA-ILA
Postcards with a picture of a handgun and children as
targets started appearing in mailboxes and on windshields in
a few central Lake County towns this week. The postcards,
distributed by representatives of the Brady Campaign, a
national gun control advocacy group, criticize Republican
state Rep. Sandy Cole of Grayslake for voting against
legislation that would require background checks on all
handgun sales.
Nutter, Rendell try to exploit police officer`s death s in call for gun ban
By: NRA-ILA
In a sad effort to exploit the death of a police officer to
advance their anti-gun agenda, Mayor Nutter and Gov. Rendell
called upon Congress to enact a new bun ban. But the most
important thing for residents in Philadelphia and
Pennsylvania is to ask their governor and their mayor why
career criminals are on the streets.
Armed citizens stop Memphis street shooter
By: FirearmsNews
From GUNED.COM-- Police in Memphis say a gunman firing a
pistol beside a busy city street was subdued by two
passers-by who were also armed.
Time To Rein In The BATFE
By: FirearmsNews
From GUNED.COM A LITTLE LATE BUT NEEDED-- The federal
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has been
on a tear under the administration of Attorney General
Alberto Gonzalez.
Manufacturers of various products have
been told in writing that their products are not a firearm
and that they can be marketed outside the federal paperwork
system for selling firearms. Then, months or years later,
BATFE sends another letter reversing the first
determination.
Assault Weapons Ban and Law Enforcement Protection Act of 2007
By: FirearmsNews
From GUNED.COM-- 110th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1022
To reauthorize the assault weapons ban , and for other
purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
U.S. agents under greater attack on Mexico border
By: FirearmsNews
From GUNED.COM-- LAREDO, Texas, March 8 (Reuters) -
Frustrated by tighter security on the U.S.-Mexico border,
illegal immigrants and drug traffickers are taking it out on
U.S. agents, increasingly attacking them with guns, rocks
and petrol bombs.
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