Lady Di
10-26-2007, 12:31 PM
As long as there are people out there like Mark Taff, there's hope for the Second Amendment and for America. :D
"You don't like the fact that you can't have a gun on your college campus? Drop out of school." --Peter Hamm, spokesman for the Brady campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
CCRKBA Executive Director Mark A. Taff, a part-time college
student, fired back,
"For a fairly bright, though philosophically misguided
guy, Peter said a remarkably stupid thing and he ought to apologize to
every college student who believes that their right of self-defense should
not be nullified simply by stepping onto a college campus.
To suggest that anyone who disagrees with his personal view about
firearms and personal protection ought to voluntarily sacrifice their
higher education makes Hamm seem like an elitist snob. That's an insult to thousands of students, like myself, who are this week participating in the 'Empty Holster Protest' on college campuses across the country. Certainly Peter doesn't actually want students to be murdered, assaulted, robbed or raped, does he? We'd like to believe he is a better man than that.
The real issue here isn't what Hamm thinks, but the fact that under
today's laws and campus regulations, college and university students,
teachers and staff are essentially living in victim disarmament zones. These are essentially risk-free environments for thugs and lunatics, and that's outrageous. Instead of encouraging personal safety advocates to quit school, we ought to be encouraging them to stay and change these environments."
Get the full news story here: http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-25-2007/0004690756&EDATE=
"You don't like the fact that you can't have a gun on your college campus? Drop out of school." --Peter Hamm, spokesman for the Brady campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
CCRKBA Executive Director Mark A. Taff, a part-time college
student, fired back,
"For a fairly bright, though philosophically misguided
guy, Peter said a remarkably stupid thing and he ought to apologize to
every college student who believes that their right of self-defense should
not be nullified simply by stepping onto a college campus.
To suggest that anyone who disagrees with his personal view about
firearms and personal protection ought to voluntarily sacrifice their
higher education makes Hamm seem like an elitist snob. That's an insult to thousands of students, like myself, who are this week participating in the 'Empty Holster Protest' on college campuses across the country. Certainly Peter doesn't actually want students to be murdered, assaulted, robbed or raped, does he? We'd like to believe he is a better man than that.
The real issue here isn't what Hamm thinks, but the fact that under
today's laws and campus regulations, college and university students,
teachers and staff are essentially living in victim disarmament zones. These are essentially risk-free environments for thugs and lunatics, and that's outrageous. Instead of encouraging personal safety advocates to quit school, we ought to be encouraging them to stay and change these environments."
Get the full news story here: http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-25-2007/0004690756&EDATE=