NRA Backs Student
We’re happy to report that the NRA is backing Gary Tudesko, the 16-year old student who has been expelled from Willows High School in California for having a shotgun stored in his truck while parked off student grounds reports KCRA.com.
One part that the media has addressed is this tidbit from the TV station:
“California law defines a school zone to be anywhere within 1,000 feet of the campus. The truck was parked within that zone.”
Would this mean that students, or anyone with a firearm has to avoid driving down the same street of a school? What would happen if Tudesko, or any other student, happened to live on the same street as the school? Would this law still apply? Surely this law must affect some firearms owners!
Student Expelled For Firearms Left in Truck Off School Campus
Will schools soon be expelling students for owning firearms? That’s a question we’d like to hear asked more and more. We bring up this because of a news story that ran in The Modesto Bee – and for the record we had no problem with the story’s writing or tone, just what it reported:
“Gary Tudesko, 16, was expelled from Willows High School in November after a dog detected the guns in his pickup truck on Oct. 26, according to a news release by the National Rifle Association. Tudesko told school officials he’d gone on an early morning duck-hunting trip before school that morning and believed the guns would not be a problem if he parked off campus.”
A hearing is scheduled for this week, and we hope that the school does the right thing. While school shootings aren’t something to be taken lightly, we feel that law-abiding citizens (even those in high school) shouldn’t be punished because of other’s actions.
Oshkosh Paper Late to Story, Twists Facts
Did you hear that gun sales are up and ammo is in short supply? Because Northwestern.com from Oshkosh, Wisconsin is reporting this fact like it is new news as opposed to the old news that it is actually is, and worse this piece shows just enough bias as well.
The story quotes Daniel Vice, senior attorney for the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, with this passage:
“Vice, who works for a group that works to strengthen gun laws, said the NRA spent substantial resources last year ‘trying to convince the public that President Obama would take their guns away.’”
First, has the NRA really done anything wrong? There is a legitimate concern here, and few in the mainstream media will admit that the NRA’s efforts may have convinced Obama and the liberals in power to keep their hands off our guns. But then the piece adds this passage:
“Vice said no one is arguing that guns should be taken away.”
Then how do you explain that Vice works for a group that would strengthen gun laws? Strengthen them by how exactly? Aren’t these means to “strengthen” the laws eventually going to make it harder for people to buy and sell guns? That seems like the first step to taking them away to us.
