Gun rights protest puts heat on UNH prof

Union Leader via MSNBC ^ | April 23, 2008 | CLYNTON NAMUO

[Past Your Eyes]

DURHAM - A University of New Hampshire student who was told by a professor that he could not wear an empty gun holster in her class as part of a protest responded by posting the correspondence on the Internet, which earned the professor several angry e-mail from strangers.

Senior Matt Ham, 22, is taking part in a nationwide demonstration this week in which participants wear empty gun holsters as a way to push for college students with permits to carry a concealed weapon to be able to bring guns onto campus. Those in favor of the move say that just one armed student could have prevented the massacre at Virginia Tech last year.

The protest is being sponsored by the group Students for Concealed Carry on Campus.

[ConservativeWarrior]

If I enter a classroom and there are two people with a gun, who do you think is going to die?

Probably you, tough guy.

[wastedyears]

Why would the guy’s bum be bleeding?

[archy]

UNH Deputy Police Chief Paul Dean said nothing in the emails constituted a threat, so Ham broke no laws or rules in posting Reinertsen's address, but he described the move as being "in poor taste" and "counterproductive."

"It's someone's desperate attempt to get their message out there and not be silenced," Dean said.

Chilling words from a law enforcement officer sworn to serve and protect.

Chilling words from a law enforcement official overlooking the commission of felony violations of Ham's First and Second Amendment rights under his nose.

United States Code Title 18, U.S. Criminal Code

PartI, Chapter 13, §ection 241

Conspiracy against rights:

If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or

If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured—

They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.

Any FReepers who wish to report this felony violation of federal law, as required by 18 USC §ection 4, may do so here:

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Priscilla S. Reinertsen
Horton Social Science Center,20 College Rd
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, 03824

UNH Deputy Police Chief Paul Dean
Janetos House, 1 Rosemary Lane,Br< University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, 03824

[archy]

From what I’ve observed in these university shootings, the cops stand out in the street or enter the buildings after all the shooting has stopped, a good sign that the shooter has killed himself. Can you think of a single instance when police have rescued students in these situations? I can’t.

I have a photograph of one on the injured students from the Virginia Tech massacre being *helped* by the responding cops. After having escaped being murdered by the gunman with a handgun, he then faced being shot by accident by the cop pointing a shotgun at his head.