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Oak Harbor antis fail to exclude gun activists from debate
Seattle Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 29 January, 2013 | Dave Workman

Posted on 01/30/2013 6:38:23 PM PST by marktwain

A Democrat precinct volunteer in Oak Harbor has acknowledged to Examiner that opponents of guns in city parks are trying to pack the city council meeting next Tuesday specifically to keep gun rights activists out.

Gun rights activists and gun control proponents are expected to square off over the right to bear arms under the state constitution and state preemption statute. The situation in Oak Harbor has gotten national attention because of this video, in which a city councilman left the last council meeting because a citizen in the audience was armed.

Pam Fick, a 20-year Oak Harbor resident and Navy veteran, who is also a gun owner and keeps it in her house, objects to the notion of guns being carried in parks. She told this column Tuesday via telephone, “We’re trying to fill the room. That’s the only intention we have to make a point that they don’t belong in there.”

Her name and phone number were posted online at IslandPolitics.org, which she called a local “GOP Inquirer.”

Fick also confirmed that activists had originally tried to get the council meeting moved to a local school “so they couldn’t bring guns in.” That might also have been designed to discourage attendance from firearms enthusiasts, and if that is the case, then their First Amendment rights are just as much under attack as are their Second Amendment rights.

Raised in Texas, Fick and her husband came to Oak Harbor from California and “fell in love with the place.” The political fight over gun rights, she said, has gotten ugly. She asserted that some members of the city council have been followed home and that she’s been on the receiving end of some nasty remarks.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; oakharbor; secondamendment; wa
The pro-freedom activists just have to get the word out.
1 posted on 01/30/2013 6:38:36 PM PST by marktwain
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Is this right: a 20-yr old and a Navy veteran. When did she enlist?


2 posted on 01/30/2013 7:17:07 PM PST by Aggie65
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Read it again: 20-year resident...


3 posted on 01/30/2013 7:32:14 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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4 posted on 01/30/2013 7:34:56 PM PST by narses
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5 posted on 01/30/2013 7:35:14 PM PST by narses
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6 posted on 01/30/2013 7:36:16 PM PST by narses
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Maybe she should leave now and leave us Washingtonians alone.


7 posted on 01/30/2013 7:50:11 PM PST by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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To: marktwain

The economy of Oak Harbor rests 100% on NAS WHIDBEY ISLAND, that awful place packed with warplanes and weapons and nasty sailors.


8 posted on 01/30/2013 8:05:47 PM PST by pabianice (washington, dc ..)
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Jay Leno SOB calls La Pierre et alii “right-wing nuts” tonight


9 posted on 01/30/2013 9:04:09 PM PST by bunkerhill7 (The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower.)
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“Pam Fick, a 20-year Oak Harbor resident and Navy veteran, who is also a gun owner and keeps it in her house, objects to the notion of guns being carried in parks.”

Then I suggest she stay clear of the parks, as there WILL be guns in the parks. The only question is who whether the good guys will also have them.


10 posted on 01/31/2013 4:12:49 AM PST by BobL
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“Pam Fick, a 20-year Oak Harbor resident and Navy veteran, who is also a gun owner and keeps it in her house, objects to the notion of guns being carried in parks.”

FUPF.

I object to the 'notion' of nosy tw@ts like "Pam Fick" trying to use the force of government to disarm me.

11 posted on 01/31/2013 4:28:50 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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