2008 Woodie Awards
Student punished for gun incident
Alissa Skelton
Issue date: 7/21/08 Section: News
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It was with his father at the George Bush shooting range in Bear Creek, Texas. Fury was so excited to shoot the paper target with a handgun.
As Fury grew older, he continued to be exposed to guns. He often went rabbit and pheasant hunting with his best friend.
Fury has never been afraid of guns because he grew up around them. He even owns a 20-gauge shotgun.
"If I saw someone walking around with a gun I wouldn't be scared," said Fury, a freshman political science major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
So when Fury heard there was going to be a UNL College Republicans meeting about the right to bear arms, he was excited to share his knowledge of guns with the group. Fury and his friend Craig Clark thought it would be a great idea to bring Clark's guns to the meeting as visuals.
Fury and Clark decided to walk across the UNL campus with Clark's unloaded guns, an AR15 rifle and a .22 carbine to the Nebraska Union, where the meeting was being held.
Fury didn't think he would alarm anyone by carrying the guns across campus and, to his knowledge, he didn't.
"Nobody was alarmed by us," he said. "We were thinking it would be an exciting way to show our right to bear arms."
Fury and Clark explained they were demonstrating their right to bear arms to students they crossed paths with. They attended the meeting and the members didn't question the guns either.
"Everybody at the meeting wanted to hold the guns and check them out," Fury said. "We knew everyone would get a kick out of the guns and like them - that's why we brought them."
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Are You Serious
posted 7/22/08 @ 1:57 AM CST
Are you serious?! This kid thought that no one would mind if he carried guns across campus? Has he been watching the news over the past 10+ years? Has he not seen the almost constant barrage of school shootings across the country? As a UNL student, I am glad that this kid will not be on campus next year, and I hope that he never returns. (Continued…)
not the NRA
posted 7/22/08 @ 4:24 PM CST
I think Colin Fury's Republican leanings and stated NRA affliation likely kept
him out of even more serious trouble. That loose cannon Judge Pokorny(Sorry, Your Honor) dismissed the charges. (Continued…)
nate
posted 7/23/08 @ 6:43 PM CST
If "nobody was alarmed", then why did UNL PD receive calls about the two carrying guns? These two were trying to cause a scene to inflate their egos, and succeeded. (Continued…)
Rob
posted 7/24/08 @ 11:25 PM CST
That day I was walking back to my car and just happened to be directly behind these two guys while they were in front of the Union. I instantly realized that they had rifles, but they were walking very casually (one had the rifle in one hand at his side, but the other was holding it with two hands - one on the barrel, the other near the trigger) so I was not alarmed. (Continued…)
Deputy Barney P. Fife
posted 7/25/08 @ 10:43 AM CST
We should applaud the officers for going above and beyond the call of duty in this case. They are setting a fine example for the parking space cadets by showing an example of arresting those delinquents BEFORE they had even broken a law! It is a terrible shame that the judge wasn't willing to create a new law to back up the tickets the cops wrote. (Continued…)
faux unl cop
posted 7/26/08 @ 4:14 PM CST
In this post 9/11 world we cops hope to establish a fine new red-state tradition
of arresting students and others BEFORE they commit a crime. (Have you ever read Kafka's *The Trial*?) We also believe
in deleting key facts friendly to the defendent from our police records: all the better to get prosecutors to hurry up and call selected, especially minority members of the public guilty until proven innocent. (Continued…)
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