College ousts Marine for legally concealed gun
'Look, no weapons are allowed on campus, period'
Posted: February 19, 2009
12:00 am Eastern
By Chelsea Schilling
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
A Marine has been arrested, suspended from college and ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation for bringing a handgun and knife to campus – even though he holds a concealed carry permit issued by the state.
"They put me in cuffs as quick as they could and hauled me off," Western Oregon University student Jeffrey L. Maxwell told Portland's KATU-TV. "With my concealed weapons permit, I thought I was well within my rights to carry it. I never remember signing away my right to keep and bear arms."
GR4U - And the same little punkassed student panel that ordered the psyche eval wants him to "submit a 10-page essay on the importance of following the law, accepting responsibility for his actions and recognizing the impact of possessing weapons on a college campus before he will be allowed to return next spring."
As I see it he:
a. Followed the Constitution over the dictates of all lesser "authorities"
b. Accepted the consequences of his actions more fully than the typical person
c. Recognized the impact of possessing a gun to the benefit, not only of himself, but all those in the vacinity who could be saved by Jeffrey Maxwell's armed response to the next whacko loonie that chooses to take advantage of a victim disarmament zone!
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"When Marines hear gunfire, we don't run from it. We run toward it," Maxwell told KATU. "I kind of thought of myself as one of the good guys – the one who, if something happened at school, was going to step in and save everybody else."
OOHRAH!
And who "ordered" a psyc eval? The student council?
OMYGOSH!!!!!!
Who gave that power to a bunch of snot-nosed, no-nothings?
I would suggest that this young man should tell ALL of them to go to hell, and take his educational pursuits to a state that is freedom friendly, instead of that communistic state of Oregon.
Bob
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Yet another gunnie who doesn't understand the relationship between the Federal and state constitutions or the power of contract.
In the US according to SCOTUS, we DO NOT have FEDERAL RKBA inside state territory. You can thank a bad ruling that disregarded the supremacy clause that says the Federal Constitution does not limit state action.
Therefore, the STATE constitution governs here. In this case, concealed carry on campus is allowed. He violated no law. He did, however, violate the contract he signed with the university. SCOTUS ruled long ago that we have the unlimited right to contract (yeah, yet another bad ruling). Since he AGREED to follow the university's policy of no weapons, they CAN kick him out and place conditions on his return.
Citations:
Contracts: see Michael Badnarik's video on the Constitution
Gun Control and Gun Rights by Kopel, et al: See the chapter on the Supreme Court for details on the relationship of Federal and state constitutions and the RKBA.
Yet another sea-lawyer who doesn't understand that neither state or federal consitutitons form the basis for rights as basic as the RKBA. So legal mumbo jumbo from ANY source, whether contractual or constitutional that seeks to "infringe" upon those God-given rights is patently illegal.
Oh I forgot to add:
See the Declaration of Independence, The Federalist Papers, and countless other correspondence authored by the Founders that made it clear the RKBA was understood to supercede the government at every level. If fact, it was government's DUTY to protect this right, rather than trample it.
Unfortunately, all too many jurists (both professional and amateur) have become mired in the legal minutia, and in so doing have missed entirely the forest for the trees.
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