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tallmike wrote:The host also confronted the the kid with things like, we go shopping every day and people all around us have concealed handguns but none of them ever go off and he had been covering news for a very long time and had never heard of a CHLer going out and shooting someone just because he was angry.

The moderator was pretty fair, but probably more biased in our favor than against.

Good Job Charles. I wish he would have given you more time to speak though.

I'll have to listen to the whole thing again...I obviously missed some of it. Probably due to me trying to skip the commercials (before the reader's digest version was posted!).

So this kid went through a massive tragedy. He's found a cause as a result with people in the gun control crowd filling his head with hero worship for his 'brave stand against gun violence'. Obviously he's got enough courage to try to stand up and debate this issue with others as a result. But he really ought to get someone else to speak for him or go join toastmasters and get some practice in. All that nervous pausing, stuttering, and repeating probably caused some folks to tune out, which means they probably didn't hear our side, since Woods got the first and last word (how is that fair???).

Charles did a great job of sticking to the facts and not attacking the guy or making him look stupid. I was afraid Woods status as a former victim would generate an overwhelming sympathy factor if he just got shredded in the debate.

The host struck me as a bit biased when he asked "why not just leave this alone" after stating out that a lot of administrators and staff at campuses are opposed to it. The guy made it sound as if there isn't a single student, administrator, or educator who is for campus carry.

Charles knocked it out of the park by pointing out the reverse, especially the fact that the students for campus carry organization is the largest student organization in the country.

I feel like Charles won hands down for anyone who was listening and may have been on the fence on the issue, but the way the host moderated and Woods' victim hood sure stacked the deck against us for anyone else.

I'm thankful Charles was the guy representing us...not many folks out there who could have gone up against a victim with that much sympathy factor and won the way he did.


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