Ravenwood - 10/18/05 06:15 AM
After a parent open carried his pistol to a York County school board meeting, the chairman is asking for permission to ban guns wherever he feels like it.
The York County School Board is asking several state legislators to consider prohibiting firearms at board meetings - regardless of whether they are held on school property.That means if you're carrying your gun while enjoying dinner in a local restaurant, you have to leave should they decide to have an impromptu meeting there. It seems to me that the school board could circumvent all of this by simply having their meetings - oh I don't know - at school.
The letter asking for the amendment to state gun laws came last week after a local resident attended the board's monthly meeting on Sept. 26 with a .45-caliber gun strapped to his hip.You ever notice that whenever someone uses a phrase like "strapped to his hip", you know right away what side of the issue they're on?
"We're not infringing upon people's rights to bear arms," said board Chairman Mark Medford. "It's just a common-sense issue. We don't want to have weapons at our School Board meeting, because if someone decided to snap or got angry about a decision we make, we don't want the worst-case scenario."We're not infringing upon people's rights, we just want to.
In the letter, Medford wrote, "Our concern is for the safety and well-being of the students present at this school-related activity. Thankfully, nothing happened. But it would seem prudent to take action before a tragedy occurs."Ah yes, lets do it for the children. Because wearing a gun around kids is dangerous. That's why cops are instructed to not get within 50 feet of kids. It was fortunate that the evil mind control rays that guns emit didn't make this guy go postal.
For what it's worth, I think the school board just doesn't like being told what they can and can't control in their own little fiefdom.
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I get so tired of people assuming that if you have a firearm, you will naturally use it to bully people you are around.
Posted by: Robert Garrard at October 18, 2005 9:05 AMLook up the psychological term "projection".
If you want to run people's lives for them, then you will probably assume that any armed person wants to do the same to you.
Scratch a victim-disarmament supporter, and you will ALWAYS discover a control-freak.
damned ... this looks like a good .sig line.
The board of education now wants to ban gun? why dont we just give that jackass his walking papers how about making him read the U.S. Constitution and write 2000 on the blackboard I WILL NOT VIOLATE THE U.S. CONSTITUTION EVER AGAIN that sound like a good way to rememnd him of the law of the land and its not from the UN
Posted by: screaming eagle at October 18, 2005 9:58 PMI don't get why someone would open carry a firearm to a school board meeting. Yes, you have the right. We have the right to many things, but it is usually the anarchists and leftists who purposefully antagonize and scare people.
You should be angry at the idiot who has brought attention to the fact that citizens have a right to open carry in situations that most citizens would have been happy to prohibit if they thought that was how right to carry would be abused.
This guy has done you no favors. The school people are overreacting to an idiot that begged for it. This is not militia country. Board meetings are often angry and vocal.
mikem,
A right you can't exercise is not a right. If you read the story, the gunowner did not set out to deliberately antagonize anyone.
And asking people to deny themselves a right so that they don't offend others is the worst kind of political correctness. Its "why do they hate us" bullshit.
And if school board meetings are as volatile as you imply, maybe the gun owner had a valid reason for carrying, lest someone try to attack him.
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