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1. LIberty University
2. Story on Norfolk's arrest of Danladi Moore after City Council meeting
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1. LIberty University
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Liberty University is a private university that is living up to its name! At its next Board meeting in March, Liberty is considering a change in university policy that would allow concealed handgun permit holders to be able to carry on campus!!
Benjamin Neiman, a student at Liberty University, notified me of this proposed policy change.
I have not seen the proposed change, but I believe that it would cover students, faculty, and staff!
Benjamin said that a chapter of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus (SCCC) formed during the summer at Liberty, and now has over 200 members!
ACTION ITEM - time to put up or shut up!
***It is EXTREMELY important that gun owners, ESPECIALLY STUDENTS, show their support for this initiative by Jerry Falwell, Jr., the University Chancellor.***
How can you help:
a. Send in letters to the editor to the Liberty Champion, the University paper, in support:
Liberty Champion - University Newspaper Letter to the Editor email address is:
liberty.opinion@gmail.com
Jennifer Schmidt is Editor in Chief and you can direct other correspondence to her:
jschmidt@liberty.edu.
Benjamin has spoken with Jennifer and she seemed very shocked to hear that the Chancellor was in support of this measure, so we may expect some skepticism from the paper.
b. Send in letters to the editor to the Lynchburg News and Advance in support:
c. For those of you on Facebook, the Liberty SCCC Facebook group has over 250 members and could use some more:
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2. Story on Norfolk's arrest of Danladi Moore after City Council meeting
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Hours after Norfolk City Hall visit, gun advocate is detained
By Debbie Messina
The Virginian-Pilot
(c) October 8, 2008
NORFOLK
Hours after guns-rights activists marched on City Hall to demand police leave them alone, they said one was charged after refusing an order to leave Waterside because he was openly carrying a weapon.
Danladi Moore – whom the city paid $10,000 in July to avoid litigation after being stopped by police for suspected weapons violations – was charged with trespassing at the downtown entertainment complex Tuesday night.
The 24-year-old Hampton resident said police told him to leave because he had a gun. Moore said he refused because the law allows him to display a weapon in public places. He said he was handcuffed, charged and led out of the building.
Norfolk police spokesman Officer Chris Amos confirmed that a summons was issued but declined to comment further.
Waterside receives city funding but is officially owned by a private entity, Waterside Associates, whose partners include the Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority, said NRHA assistant executive director John Kownack. Its policy prohibits weapons, yet weapons are not included on a list of prohibitions posted at Waterside’s entrances, he added.
The incident happened after about a dozen members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League finished dinner at the Hooters restaurant at Waterside. Earlier, they had joined about 50 others at a City Council meeting to complain that their rights had been violated by police.
Most of them were openly carrying guns, but only Moore and his two friends were approached, members of the group said.
Philip Van Cleave, who leads the guns-rights group and was with Moore at Waterside but did not witness the exchange, said it was unbelievable.
“I don’t see a conspiracy here – I see more ineptness,” he said. “And there may well be prejudice too.”
Moore is black. Van Cleave and most of the others are white.
Moore said a friend who was with him at Waterside also was carrying a gun and also had challenged police when asked to leave. He said his friend, who is white, was not charged.
John Pierce, co-founder of the national group OpenCarry.org, said, “Even if this was a perfectly innocent mistake, the timing could not have been worse.”