Posted on 01/30/2013 6:38:23 PM PST by marktwain
A Democrat precinct volunteer in Oak Harbor has acknowledged to Examiner that opponents of guns in city parks are trying to pack the city council meeting next Tuesday specifically to keep gun rights activists out.
Gun rights activists and gun control proponents are expected to square off over the right to bear arms under the state constitution and state preemption statute. The situation in Oak Harbor has gotten national attention because of this video, in which a city councilman left the last council meeting because a citizen in the audience was armed.
Pam Fick, a 20-year Oak Harbor resident and Navy veteran, who is also a gun owner and keeps it in her house, objects to the notion of guns being carried in parks. She told this column Tuesday via telephone, Were trying to fill the room. Thats the only intention we have to make a point that they dont belong in there.
Her name and phone number were posted online at IslandPolitics.org, which she called a local GOP Inquirer.
Fick also confirmed that activists had originally tried to get the council meeting moved to a local school so they couldnt bring guns in. That might also have been designed to discourage attendance from firearms enthusiasts, and if that is the case, then their First Amendment rights are just as much under attack as are their Second Amendment rights.
Raised in Texas, Fick and her husband came to Oak Harbor from California and fell in love with the place. The political fight over gun rights, she said, has gotten ugly. She asserted that some members of the city council have been followed home and that shes been on the receiving end of some nasty remarks.
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Is this right: a 20-yr old and a Navy veteran. When did she enlist?
Read it again: 20-year resident...
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Maybe she should leave now and leave us Washingtonians alone.
The economy of Oak Harbor rests 100% on NAS WHIDBEY ISLAND, that awful place packed with warplanes and weapons and nasty sailors.
Jay Leno SOB calls La Pierre et alii “right-wing nuts” tonight
“Pam Fick, a 20-year Oak Harbor resident and Navy veteran, who is also a gun owner and keeps it in her house, objects to the notion of guns being carried in parks.”
Then I suggest she stay clear of the parks, as there WILL be guns in the parks. The only question is who whether the good guys will also have them.
FUPF.
I object to the 'notion' of nosy tw@ts like "Pam Fick" trying to use the force of government to disarm me.
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