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Fun and guns shouldn't mix in Norfolk's public parks
The Virginian-Pilot
c September 27, 2002
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
The Norfolk City Council should tell the pro-gun Virginia Citizens Defense League that it is happy to drop the ban on guns in city parks on one condition: that the Virginia General Assembly drop the ban on firearms within its own chambers.
Norfolk's gun ban is under fire not from its own residents, but from Second Amendment partisans from across Virginia who wouldn't know Town Point from Sewells Point.
Virginia law allows citizens to carry unconcealed guns. But a 1974 Norfolk ordinance bans firearms in the city's parks.
According to VCDL, based in the Northern Virginia town of Newington, Norfolk's signs alerting citizens to disarm, and the ban itself, are illegal. Seems gun-totin' Virginians from across the state are desperate to exercise their Second Amendment rights in Town Point Park, at Scope and at Ocean View beaches.
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VCDL claims new state legislation that broadens the carry law forbids local governments from regulating firearms and overturns the Norfolk ban. Norfolk City Attorney Bernard A. Pishko disagrees. But, hedging their bets, VCDL members want Norfolk to lift the ban anyway, even if it is legal.
It's bad enough that the General Assembly, in a moment reeking of hypocrisy, opened city halls, council chambers and bars to gun-toters while prohibiting guns in its own chambers. Folks smell a double standard, and then some.
Aside from the possibility that a tequila-bullets combination will give some bar patrons a permanent hangover, it is hard to imagine a scarier scenario than an armed Little League parent who disagrees with a ref's call. Basketball-game scuffles have already led to shootings and bloodshed. Norfolk shouldn't make it easier for concert-goers or ballplayers to murder each other, nor should families on outings have to risk getting caught in the crossfire.
Norfolk's gun ban in city parks makes sense. And the posse of pistol packers from Newington, Midlothian, Hopewell and other far-flung Virginia cities should aim elsewhere.
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"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
The Virginian-Pilot
c September 27, 2002
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
The Norfolk City Council should tell the pro-gun Virginia Citizens Defense League that it is happy to drop the ban on guns in city parks on one condition: that the Virginia General Assembly drop the ban on firearms within its own chambers.
Norfolk's gun ban is under fire not from its own residents, but from Second Amendment partisans from across Virginia who wouldn't know Town Point from Sewells Point.
Virginia law allows citizens to carry unconcealed guns. But a 1974 Norfolk ordinance bans firearms in the city's parks.
According to VCDL, based in the Northern Virginia town of Newington, Norfolk's signs alerting citizens to disarm, and the ban itself, are illegal. Seems gun-totin' Virginians from across the state are desperate to exercise their Second Amendment rights in Town Point Park, at Scope and at Ocean View beaches.
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VCDL claims new state legislation that broadens the carry law forbids local governments from regulating firearms and overturns the Norfolk ban. Norfolk City Attorney Bernard A. Pishko disagrees. But, hedging their bets, VCDL members want Norfolk to lift the ban anyway, even if it is legal.
It's bad enough that the General Assembly, in a moment reeking of hypocrisy, opened city halls, council chambers and bars to gun-toters while prohibiting guns in its own chambers. Folks smell a double standard, and then some.
Aside from the possibility that a tequila-bullets combination will give some bar patrons a permanent hangover, it is hard to imagine a scarier scenario than an armed Little League parent who disagrees with a ref's call. Basketball-game scuffles have already led to shootings and bloodshed. Norfolk shouldn't make it easier for concert-goers or ballplayers to murder each other, nor should families on outings have to risk getting caught in the crossfire.
Norfolk's gun ban in city parks makes sense. And the posse of pistol packers from Newington, Midlothian, Hopewell and other far-flung Virginia cities should aim elsewhere.
Respond to letter- http://home.hamptonroads.com/feedback
http://www.pilotonline.com/opinion/op0927edb.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Comments
Have you ever considered that the people who are allowed to carry concealed weapons have been investigated as part of the licensing process? The people who you should be concerned about are the criminals that have been "packing" regardless of a ban or any law prohibiting them from carrying a weapon. I don't know what is so hard about this concept. CRIMINALS DON'T ABIDE BY THE LAWS, thus the term criminals. Any new law or new ban on firearms only serves to strip the rights of the LAW ABIDING citizen and does nothing to lower the crime rate. If anything, it serves to disarm those that might be able to defend themselves against a criminal and FURTHER RAISE the rate of violent crimes. Guns in the hands of responsible citizens is the best deterrent to crime.
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