Gun owners urge Michigan court: Stop school gun restrictions
Source: Associated Press
Ed White, Associated Press
Updated 4:08 pm, Wednesday, April 11, 2018
DETROIT (AP) Lawyers for gun owners urged the Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday to stop schools from banning the open carry of guns by visitors, a controversy that will test the ability of school boards to set their own safety policies.
The Ann Arbor and Clio districts have adopted sweeping anti-weapon policies, despite a state law that allows certain licensed gun owners to openly carry a pistol on public school property.
"School districts do not have the ability to make law," said Dean Greenblatt, an attorney representing a Clio-area man who would like to openly carry his gun when he visits his daughter's school.
Another lawyer, James Makowski, accused the state appeals court of "legislating from the bench" by allowing the Ann Arbor school board to carve out its own restrictions. He said local governments, including elected school boards, must defer to the Legislature on gun issues.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/education/article/Gun-owners-urge-Michigan-court-Stop-school-gun-12825769.php
louis-t
(23,295 posts)HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)by some kind of spidey sense, I guess. Open carry advocates are one of the worst kind of gun advocates behind only assault weapon advocates on the evil scale.
turbinetree
(24,701 posts)have you fucking taken a look at how republican controlled state legislatures have fucking not protected students from gun violence----------------------you fuckers have failed-------------big time.................at least the school boards have some common sense
Fuck You....................
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough
TheSmarterDog
(794 posts)They're not
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)Wonder why that is? They are concerned about their own skin but the kids be damned.
mac56
(17,567 posts)GET OVER YOURSELVES.
Initech
(100,076 posts)marble falls
(57,083 posts)mac56
(17,567 posts)My comment was about the self-importance of gunners, that's all.
marble falls
(57,083 posts)my Irish up too quick. Sorry about that.
mac56
(17,567 posts)OneBro
(1,159 posts). . . for the safety of the students, the board should just require that the school go on lockdown whenever someone with a gun arrives on campus.
procon
(15,805 posts)With any justice the cops will respond to a 911 call about a man with a gun on campus and waste all the ammunition they have on them to teach this idiot a permanent lesson about the consequences of bad decisions.
sarisataka
(18,655 posts)What could possibly go wrong?
Maxheader
(4,373 posts)when he's not representing such stellar parents..Let the clio-area
man show himself...let the world see the idiot that needs to carry
a gun at his daughters school.
"School districts do not have the ability to make law," said Dean Greenblatt, an attorney representing a Clio-area man who would like to openly carry his gun when he visits his daughter's school.
BadgerKid
(4,552 posts)Despite how some "evangelical" gun owners feel carrying a gun is akin to a religious experience.
Kaleva
(36,301 posts)By state law, I can legally open carry in the following places:
Schools or school property but may carry while in a vehicle on school property while dropping off or picking up if a parent or legal guardian
Public or private day care center, public or private child caring agency, or public or private child placing agency.
Sports arena or stadium
A tavern where the primary source of income is the sale of alcoholic liquor by the glass consumed on the premises
Any property or facility owned or operated by a church, synagogue, mosque, temple, or other place of worship.
An entertainment facility that the individual knows or should know has a seating capacity of 2,500 or more
A hospital
A dormitory or classroom of a community college, college, or university
I cannot conceal carry in the above listed place even though I have a CPL. However, the CPL allows me to open carry. Not that I would ever want to.
marble falls
(57,083 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,340 posts)One nut with an open-carry fetish does not represent all Michigan gun owners.