Posted on 04/17/2007 8:10:01 AM PDT by Arcy
A bill that would have given college students and employees the right to carry handguns on campus died with nary a shot being fired in the General Assembly.
House Bill 1572 didn't get through the House Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety. It died Monday in the subcommittee stage, the first of several hurdles bills must overcome before becoming laws.
The bill was proposed by Del. Todd Gilbert, R-Shenandoah County, on behalf of the Virginia Citizens Defense League. Gilbert was unavailable Monday and spokesman Gary Frink would not comment on the bill's defeat other than to say the issue was dead for this General Assembly session.
Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker was happy to hear the bill was defeated. "I'm sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly's actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus."
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I heard this last night on the radio. Unbelievable.
“feeling safe” and actually being safer are two different things.
This bill though it did not go through still proved a strong point, unfortunatly liberalism has cost us many lives again ignoring the reality of the world and embracing fantasys.
The victims should sue the school and individuals in the legislature. When the governmnet acts to preclude its citizens from the rights existant to all other citizens and precludes the right of self defense, they step up and assume all responsibility for protecting those citizens.
They failed...sue them into bankruptcy.
This is not a case where a lack of gun control laws caused a masacre but an example of where a specific gun control law, a gun free zone, aided and abetted a masacre.
A caller on that radio program suggested that “Concealed Carry” owners be required to also carry GPS equipped cell phones, with an identifying marker, such as a bright yellow stripe. When an incident lik this occurs, they would use the cell phone technology to send out a mass S.O.S. message to the immdediate area (text, for example) giving the coordinates of the S.O.S. All gun owners in the immediate vicinity could converge and take care of the perpetrator quickly.
Even people without concealed weapons could use the yellow stripe phones to discourage criminals.
And an alledged receipt for a gun. How about that?
Because to a leftscum, it's all about the FEELINGS, not about the reality. And this ilk of a##hats call themselves the "reality based community"...
Now how did the gun get on campus? Wasn’t it illegal? /sarcasm off
Natural law 101, or the social contract: we give up certain rights, possessed in a state of nature—including the right to arm ourselves adequately, so as to defend ourselves from the depredations of others—in exchange for the (purported) security offered by society.
As has been said before: “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
And certain candidates tell us to elect them, and then trust them on this issue.
I managed to get through to the mancow show this morning after hearing his co-host say all guns should be taken away.
VA tech is a perfect example of “if guns are outlawed, then only outlaws will have them”.
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