"Senate rejects concealed-weapons measure; Opponents decry policy as dangerous" by Jim Abrams, Associated Press | July 23, 2009
WASHINGTON - A rare victory for gun control advocates in a Democratic-controlled Congress that has been friendly to the gun lobby.
If they know what is good for them.
A strong majority of the Senate, in a 58-to-39 vote, supported the measure, which would require most states to honor the concealed-weapons permits issued by other states. But the tally was two votes short of the 60 votes needed to add the measure as an amendment to a defense spending bill.
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Twenty Democrats, mainly from Western or rural states, joined all but two Republicans in voting for the measure, which was promoted by the National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups. New England’s senators split along party lines, with Republicans voting for the measure and all Democrats opposing it, along with independents Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who usually vote with Democrats.
Sanders the socialist?
There were also notable defections. Senator Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, and Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Democrat, who voted in February to strip the District of Columbia of its strict gun control laws, opposed the concealed weapon measure. Specter was a Republican at the time of the previous vote. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, a pro-gun rights Democrat, also opposed it.
NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre told the Associated Press that, despite the defeat, the vote showed that “we have the wind to our back.’’ He called the vote “one more step down the road to allowing all Americans the full measure of Second Amendment protection.’’
Because we are gonna need it.
Those who opposed it, LaPierre warned, “will see it reflected in support from their constituents.’’
Yeah, that's right!
"Students seek right to carry weapons; Advocates step up campaign after campus rampage" by Ramit Plushnick-Masti, Associated Press | May 31, 2009
PITTSBURGH - Colleges nationwide have unconstitutionally barred students from handing out literature, protesting, and gathering in support of the right to carry weapons on campus, students and an advocacy group say.
Christine Brashier, a freshman at the Community College of Allegheny County near Pittsburgh, said a dean recently told her she had to stop distributing fliers for the group Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, which has chapters at many colleges, and to destroy the pamphlets she had designed.
You gotta luv Amurkn ejerkashun, don't you?
"I won't be forced into silence. I just wanted to start a student organization. I didn't think it was going to get this much attention," Brashier said. "It only got this attention because they stopped me. People don't like to hear about suppression of free speech."
No we don't!
Brashier is licensed to carry a concealed firearm but doesn't take it to school because her school, like most colleges and universities nationwide, does not allow weapons on campus....
But since April 16, 2007, when Seung-Hui Cho went on a shooting rampage at Virginia Tech University, killing 32 people and injuring 17 before turning the gun on himself, more students have been advocating for the right to carry guns on campus, and state lawmakers have been tackling the issue as well.
You know about Operation Bluebird, right, readers?
And MK Ultra?
As a result, more universities and colleges have suppressed the rights of students to organize.
That's FREE-THINKING AmeriKa, huh?
In Tarrant County, Texas, students have been trying to hold an "empty holster" demonstration in the college's designated "Free Speech" zone.
Is that an oxymoron or what?
The college has repeatedly refused to allow the protest, though it has taken place at other campuses nationwide. College spokeswoman Donna Darovich said students are permitted to voice their opinions in the "Free Speech" zone but will not be allowed to carry empty holsters anywhere on campus.
Then fill 'er up, kiddo!
"We believe that it would be disruptive to the campus environment for people to be walking around with gun holsters," Darovich said.
However, Central Connecticut State University in New Britain allowed a gun holster protest on its campus in April, a month after the school was mired in publicity because a student was questioned by police after he gave a class presentation on gun rights that made a professor uncomfortable.
How much you wanna bet the Prof was a damn Jew!?
Mark my words: the time is coming when it will be forbidden to criticize the government or its politically-correct positions, and that time is not far off.
That explains the good marks I got in college way back when. I simply told them what they filled me up with and what they wanted to hear.
