Comments on: PSH in Virginia? http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2008/02/27/psh-in-virginia/ Where There's Snow, There's Firepower Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:17:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: joated http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2008/02/27/psh-in-virginia/#comment-19721 joated Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:49:11 +0000 http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2008/02/27/psh-in-virginia/#comment-19721 When I taught high school we would have a spate of bomb scares called in when finals or mid-terms were scheduled. Some were called in just to watch the evacuation from across the street. (Those callers got caught.) When the number of incidences like this occur, my spidey sense starts to tingle and I wonder if the police aren't just searching for some fictitious "man with a gun." I want to see more than one person as the witness, preferably people unknown to one another or who haven't talked to one another. You now what I mean? When I taught high school we would have a spate of bomb scares called in when finals or mid-terms were scheduled. Some were called in just to watch the evacuation from across the street. (Those callers got caught.)

When the number of incidences like this occur, my spidey sense starts to tingle and I wonder if the police aren’t just searching for some fictitious “man with a gun.”

I want to see more than one person as the witness, preferably people unknown to one another or who haven’t talked to one another. You now what I mean?

]]> By: Laughingdog http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2008/02/27/psh-in-virginia/#comment-19714 Laughingdog Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:10:47 +0000 http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2008/02/27/psh-in-virginia/#comment-19714 I've actually tried to find an actual criteria for that in VA, and haven't come across anything yet. The best I can tell is that they would need to prove that you knew you were violating their conditions for being on that property. If someone tells you to leave, you clearly can't argue that you didn't know. However, if it was a student carrying, as opposed to just some shmoe, they could potentially use that as proof. Granted, I'm not a lawyer. I just do my best to figure out the gray areas in the state to keep my butt covered. Regardless, trespassing is only a misdemeanor charge anyway. Hardly worthy of calling in team after team of police. I’ve actually tried to find an actual criteria for that in VA, and haven’t come across anything yet. The best I can tell is that they would need to prove that you knew you were violating their conditions for being on that property. If someone tells you to leave, you clearly can’t argue that you didn’t know. However, if it was a student carrying, as opposed to just some shmoe, they could potentially use that as proof. Granted, I’m not a lawyer. I just do my best to figure out the gray areas in the state to keep my butt covered.

Regardless, trespassing is only a misdemeanor charge anyway. Hardly worthy of calling in team after team of police.

]]> By: Sebastian http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2008/02/27/psh-in-virginia/#comment-19713 Sebastian Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:07:04 +0000 http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2008/02/27/psh-in-virginia/#comment-19713 Unless Virginia is different... only if they ask you to leave and you don't. Unless Virginia is different… only if they ask you to leave and you don’t.

]]> By: Laughingdog http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2008/02/27/psh-in-virginia/#comment-19712 Laughingdog Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:03:25 +0000 http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2008/02/27/psh-in-virginia/#comment-19712 Actually, since Ferrum College is a private college, you could be guilty of trespassing if they didn't want people there with firearms. Actually, since Ferrum College is a private college, you could be guilty of trespassing if they didn’t want people there with firearms.

]]> By: Sigivald http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2008/02/27/psh-in-virginia/#comment-19710 Sigivald Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:45:55 +0000 http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2008/02/27/psh-in-virginia/#comment-19710 In a way this reminds me of an incident where there was an alert, or possibly a short shutdown, of Lewis and Clark college here in Portland, soon after one of the big campus shooting incidents in recent times (I think it was the Cho incident, not sure). Seems someone had one of those punk rock belts made of inactive ammunition, worn as a belt. So obviously the campus needed to grind to a halt, for a fashion accessory that's something like 30 years old at this point. Because, after all, even had it been live ammunition, it would have been horribly dangerous without a machinegun lying around to fire it. In a way this reminds me of an incident where there was an alert, or possibly a short shutdown, of Lewis and Clark college here in Portland, soon after one of the big campus shooting incidents in recent times (I think it was the Cho incident, not sure).

Seems someone had one of those punk rock belts made of inactive ammunition, worn as a belt. So obviously the campus needed to grind to a halt, for a fashion accessory that’s something like 30 years old at this point.

Because, after all, even had it been live ammunition, it would have been horribly dangerous without a machinegun lying around to fire it.

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