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amendment to bar gun manufactur
ers from being released from debts
brought about by lawsuits charging
fraud, negligence or product liability.
He voted "no” in 1999 on a bill al
lowing for voluntary background
checks on all firearm sales at gun
shows. He also voted in 1999 to
keep a motion that required that all
gun sales at gun shows be complet
ed by federally licensed gun dealers.
In 1998, he voted “no” on an
amendment that prohibited charg
ing prospective gun owners a fee to
cover the cost of a background
check and that required the destruc
tion of information used during a
background check. He also voted in
1998 in support of an amendment
that made it unlawful for gun deal
ers to sell handguns without provid
ing trigger locks.
Republican candidate A1 King
said that because he’s a gun owner
and former law enforcement officer,
he understands gun issues.
King said the assault weapons
ban is a “myth” because “assault
eapons are in the eye of the behold
er” and are sometimes less danger
ous than smaller, easier to conceal
weapons.
“A lot of this is myth and we need
to dispel that myth and get down to
what we really want to do — we
want to make people safe,” he said.
He said citizens should have the
right to bear arms and form a mili
tia, which the ban infringed upon.
“That’s another case where the
government said, ‘it’s ok for me, but
it’s not ok for you the citizens,”’ he
said. “I don’t believe that our found
ing fathers and the Second Amend
ment intended for the government
to be special.”
King, who said he worked as a
police officer at the University of
California, Davis, said schools
should be allowed to prohibit con
cealed weapons on campus.
“1 think that the universities and
the colleges and schools have a
right to set that kind of standard,”
he said.
King said all firearms are danger
ous, but can be regulated with safe
ty training and strict enforcement of
existing gun laws.
“I don’t have any problem with
training, classes, requirements for
things like that, but I believe in the
right to bear those weapons,” he said.
King also said manufacturers of
weapons should be protected from
lawsuits by gun-crime victims.
“It’s not the manufacturers of the
weapons that are responsible for the
killing, it’s the people, and people
don’t need guns when they want to
kill,” he said.
Congressional race
Jim Feldkamp, Republican candi
date, said he is a “Second Amend
ment supporter,” but doesn’t see gun
control as a key issue in this election.
Feldkamp said he probably
wouldn’t have voted to extend the
assault weapon ban if he had been
in Congress when it expired, saying
the ban applied to weapons it
shouldn’t have.
“They're technically not really as
sault weapons,” he said of some
semiautomatic firearms covered by
the ban.
Feldkamp added that students
should be allowed to carry con
cealed weapons on campus.
“If a student has a concealed
weapon permit, I don’t feel that's an
issue,” he said. “They’re complying
with the law.”
Democratic candidate Peter De
Fazio also voted on several gun-relat
ed issues during the last four years.
He voted “yes” in 2003 on a bill
that prohibited liability lawsuits
from being brought against gun
makers and sellers based on the
criminal misuse of firearms.
He voted “no” on a passed
amendment in 1999 to decrease the
time allowed for a background
check at a gun show from 72 hours
to 24. He also voted yes in 1999 on a
passed amendment that would
make it illegal for anyone who com
mits a violent act as a juvenile to
own a gun once he or she turns 18.
DeFazio voted “yes” in 1998 on a
successful bill imposing mandatory
minimum prison terms for crimes
committed with a firearm during
drug trafficking.
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STUDENTS SHARE VIEWS ABOUT GUN CONTROL, ASSAULT WEAPONS
Many students interviewed by
the Emerald said gun-control is
sues are important, but have been
neglected during the current cam
paign rhetoric.
Business administration major
Lance Lucas said the assault
weapons ban was ineffective.
“I’m against a ban that 1 think is
just useless legislation, like this
one was,” he said. “I don’t think
that what they did to guns changed
anything about their lethality ...
rather it just drove up prices for en
thusiasts and consumers.”
He said the ban didn’t affect
people who buy guns through ille
gal channels to commit crimes and
other methods are necessary to re
duce gun crime.
“I’m (more) in support of prose
cuting, punishing criminals for
crimes they are already committing
as far as buying illegal guns and
using illegal weapons, than trying
to push new legislation that isn’t
going to affect those criminals any
ways,” he said.
He said the Constitution gives
students authority to carry con
cealed weapons in open areas of
the University campus.
“I don’t mind when private estab
lishments have billboards or plac
ards stating that there are no hand
guns allowed, but when you have
an area such as a federal campus ...
the University should have no juris
diction over that,” he said.
Lucas added that more gun edu
cation is needed.
“Criminals would be more care
ful committing crime if they knew
that more people were educated
and responsible gun owners in
stead of sort of preying on a culture
of fear,” he said.
Senior Brendan Morley said
changes should be made to the as
sault weapons ban to close loop
holes that allow gun makers to sell
modification kits that turn semi
automatic weapons into fully auto
matic weapons.
“Basically, there are a lot of
loopholes, and a single person can
get a lot of killing power,” he said.
Morley said the University should
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decide whether students can bring
legal weapons onto campus.
“The school has its own securi
ty forces, so ... it should have the
right to basically regulate what
kind of devices and implements
and contraband people can bring
onto the property,” he said.
He added that he favors more
regulation of gun shows.
“If you can’t get a gun from your
local sporting goods store, you can
go to a gun show and buy basically
the same gun,” he said.
Graduate student Emilie Cate
said the assault weapons ban
should be extended.
“As a general rule, 1 don’t feel as
sault weapons have any business
being in anyone’s hands,” she said.
She also said complete back
ground checks and a lengthy wait
ing period should be required for
people to buy guns, adding that
she doesn’t see a need for students
to carry concealed weapons on
campus.
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