Monday, February 7, 2011

TCCC

TCCC/SCCC Articles from the last year or so:

These are the main movers and shakers against campus carry:

Update: Campus Carry Passes the Senate!


TCCC Officers:
  • 2010/2011
    • Nathanael "Nathan" Barker, President
    • Blake Rupard, Vice-President (later chosen as State Director for SCCC-Texas)
    • Joshua "Josh" Hull, Treasurer
    • Justin Wharff, Communications Director (Spokesperson)
    • Royce Fletcher, Events Coordinator
    • Andrew "Drew" Paxton, Legal Officer

  • 2011/2012
    • Royce Fletcher, President (resigned; left TTU to join Navy)
    • Michael Whistler, Vice President (promoted to President after Royce resigned, per TCCC Constitution)
    • Ashli Wieck, Vice President (elected at First General Meeting, 9/14/2011, to fill vacancy left after Michael's promotion)
    • Matthew "Matt" Legler, Treasurer
    • Justin Wharff, Communications Director (Spokesperson)
    • Kate Wiseman, Events Coordinator (1st semester only; graduated Dec. 2011)
    • Andrew "Drew" Paxton, (position created to subsume Legal Officer position from Year1)


Citations:

ABC 'study':

More:
Self-defense:

NRA Armed Citizen



Ashley Cowie, Florida State University:

  • http://www.glamour.com/magazine/2012/02/choose-your-side-should-college-kids-be-allowed-to-carry-guns
  • http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2011-01-09/story/fsu-student-orange-park-killed-fraternity-shooting
    "shot and killed early Sunday morning in an off-campus fraternity house"
    So... this happened off-campus, not on-campus.
    "Evan Wilhelm, a 20-year-old junior from Ponte Vedra, was showing his rifle to friends"
    And Wilhelm was only 20 (too young for a concealed permit in Texas; not sure about Florida), and this happened with a rifle (concealed carry on campus is about handguns, not rifles).
    "Wilhelm, 20, told police he had been drinking earlier in the day"
    It is illegal under Texas law to be both under the influence of alcohol and carrying concealed; I'd imagine this is the case in Florida, as well.
    "didn’t know the gun was loaded. He was showing how a flashlight attachment worked when it went off"
    First, that he '[d]idn't know the gun was loaded' is a violation of Rule #1 of Cooper's Four Rules of Firearms Handling:
    All Guns Are Always Loaded
    Second, I'm unfamiliar with any 'flashlight attachment' which involves manipulation of the trigger.
    Third, "it went off," my ass.  Guns don't "[just] go off."  Barring safety defects in older guns (especially derringers), their triggers must be manipulated.
    In short, I'm calling bullshit on his story.
    "His booking information at the Leon County Jail also lists an alias of Austin Felver"
    So now this guy has an alias?!?  Gee, what a fine, upstanding young man... I'm sure he easily could have qualified for a Florida license!  /sarcasm
    "The shooting took place in Heritage Grove, a large complex of apartment buildings that houses several fraternities along with other FSU students. Firearms are prohibited on the campuses of all public universities in Florida, but while Heritage Grove is off campus, FSU spokeswoman Browning Brooks said Lambda Chi has a policy that requires residents to sign a lease stipulating that no guns will be brought on the property"
    How's that policy workin' out for you?
    Now, lest I come across as insensitive... I *am* sensitive to Ashley's tragedy, as well as Amy and Robert's loss.  But that sensitivity does not include rolling over and playing dead in the face of their attempts to exploit this tragedy for political gain.  For a sense of perspective, just how sensitive is Amy Cowie to Amanda Collins' tragedy?  (their opposing viewpoints were presented in the same Glamour article)  I'm sure she probably thinks/feels like Collins is attempting to exploit /her/ tragedy for political gain.  Anyhow, there are enough distinguishing factors in the Ashley Cowie case that /should/ make it less than useful for attempts to obstruct campus carry... yet they persist in attempting to shoehorn it into a referendum against campus carry.  My personal opinion/reading of this case and the circumstances around it is that the Cowies' arguments are more generally anti-gun and less anti-campus carry, specifically.
  • Google search: cowie fsu off-campus amy OR ashley
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