‘gun free’ school zone violation is a Federal beef.
From Chip Hoyboer in the comments:
“The consensus of whether or not what this man did was legal or not seems to be that it was indeed legal, and I am not qualified enough in the specifics of gun laws to refute anything that has been sited, so I will take the consensus to be true. However, regardless of the legality, I find the ramifications of this act potentially disturbing. As a school teacher, how does one now handle a situation like this? Do I just allow a individual with a gun to stroll through our hallways because he or she has a permit? Does this act change the strategies of those that intend to do harm in a school? Get a permit, have a gun in plain site, walk into the school because there is no legal reason for you not to do this, and then open fire? As a parent, should I feel comfortable with my children being in a school that has a stranger walking the hallways with a unconcealed firearm? As adults we are so quick to site our individual rights of freedom of speech, the right to bear arms, freedom of expression, etc., we forget another cornerstone upon which our country was founded on, and that is our citizens responsibility to the common good. I am disappointed that very little has been mentioned here on the hundreds of children that were involved in this incident. I think we have lost focus on the message this acts sends to the students in a school that this happens to. I support the right of our citizenry to bear arms legally, but I also feel that a citizen who shows such a lack of judgement, responsibility, and common sense to be unworthy of licensing for such a right.”
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In Iowa, you can’t carry any weapon into a school and you can’t bring a gun into a voting place. No if’s, and’s or butt’s.
I believe this guy may be saying goodbye to his right to carry after this.
Were the police armed when they arrived at the school? If so, how does that not violate the “school code”?
I’m all for individuals controlling their own property rules, but this is public property.
I know this guy voted, but was retaliated against for voting and how many others in the gun toting public didn’t vote because they feared intimidation.
I wonder if by placing a polling place in a school where the “right to carry” is presumably denied creates a violation of his rights under the voting act of 1965?
After all one is protected from discrimination because of other Constitutionally protected conditions, i.e. race, color, creed, national origin, and religion. Well the Second Amendment provides protection for the gun carrying class. Isn’t it as good as the first?
Where’s the ACLU?
Even if he can claim a right to enter the polling place so armed (and I don't profess to be knowledgable in the Michigan law) I doubt that right then extends to rest of the building. If he was in an area where voters aren't privileged to enter, then he likely IS in violation.
All in all, he forced a stupid confrontation in order to become a test case. I don't think that it is wise, and I think it hurts the whole 2nd Amendment effort by giving the opposition an argument that the lay person would see as a reason to be distrustful of armed citizens.
Part of that whole "laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding" clause in that Constitution thingie...
At least he got to vote first.
What is "state school code"?
In Texas it is illegal to carry a firearm into voting precinct regardless of whether one has a concealed carry permit. The only people allowed to carry firearms in a voting location are law enforcement.
In Texas it is illegal to carry a firearm into voting precinct regardless of whether one has a concealed carry permit. The only people allowed to carry firearms in a voting location are law enforcement.