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May 06, 2009
Teenagers Gather to Support Gun Ownership Rights
Second Amendment Wheaton Forum
Second Amendment Wheaton Forum
Future Leaders and Special Guests:
Olivia Snow and Christos Dimoulis
Megan Liddy
Nik Powell
Greg Pfauth
Collen
Don Castella
Teenagers gather to support gun ownership rights
A group of young people Tuesday night chimed in on the old debate over gun control.
And the message they stressed during a Second Amendment forum at Wheaton city hall was that gun-control measures won't reduce firearm-related violence.
"Additional laws and taking away the rights of the people to bear arms simply will never work," said Christos Dimoulis, a 15-year-old South Barrington resident.
The home-schooled student served as master of ceremonies during the meeting, which was held in response to an April 21 gun control forum sponsored by several League of Women Voters chapters and the Illinois Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
Because last month's forum was held for Wheaton North High School students, the organizer of Tuesday's event said she wanted local teenagers to participate.
"We must have high school students addressing the other side and their peers," said Rosanna Pulido, who invited several teens to speak.
Olivia Snow said she decided to participate because she wanted to talk about the value of the U.S. Constitution.
"We stand here today as young Americans feeling that it is our duty - not only to protect our own rights - but to protect the rights of the generations to come," the 17-year-old Wheaton resident told the crowd of more than 100 people.
Unlike last month's gun control forum, which was cut short because of hecklers, Tuesday night's forum was calm. Members of the audience interrupted speakers only to applaud, cheer or voice agreement.
While several gun-rights experts spoke, the teenagers got a huge response.
Nik Powell, a 16-year-old sophomore at Lake Park High School in Roselle, said he enjoys shooting guns with his father and uncle. "It's a good experience for the whole family as long as you know what you are doing," he said.
And 15-year-old Megan Liddy said shooting sports and hunting have helped boost her confidence.
"I haven't always been good at school and I haven't always been good at sports," the Wheaton Warrenville South High School student said. "But I have always been good at shooting and I have always been able to beat people at it."
Dimoulis argued that increased gun-control measures will only make it more difficult for law-abiding citizens to obtain firearms. At the same time, criminals will find a way to arm themselves.
"The government fails to realize that they cannot legislate morality," Dimoulis said. "If a person is immoral, no law will make that person do what is right."
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Wild Thing's comment........
This was a totally Awesome event. The Students were wonderful and a thanks also to the Daily Herald for a Fair and Balanced article!
A very bright spot in our furture leaders reading and knowing the Constitution!
The video above is part one that has been posted so far at YouTube.
Posted by Wild Thing at May 6, 2009 01:05 PM
Comments
Nice to see that some of my generation actually care about something other than what's on tonight. I get the whole "Aw you're just paranoid" and "Right-Wing Extremist" pep talks from people (even two of the new guys in my squad at Battle Assembly) they seem to trust the ATF or obama with their guns more than themselves.
One of them even asked me what I thought of a liberal guy like him owning a gun. I simply said more power to ya brother. Sheesh If someone's a liberal democrat and they own a gun; newsflash, this just in: I DON'T GIVE A SHIT. They don't seem to get the notion of minding their own damn business live and let live you know? I don't want to pry into one's personal business because it's none of my business, and keep the government out of all of our business because they make everything their business.
Sorry for the tyrade I'm just frustrated today.
Posted by: JohnE PFC U.S. Army at May 6, 2009 08:18 PM
Hopefully by the time they graduate from High School we will still have a Second Amendment and not ruled out by the UN.
Posted by: Mark at May 6, 2009 09:20 PM
JohnE PFC U.S. Army, GREAT rant, and you
can always rant here.
We are living in some shocking times JohnE
and we all need to be able to rant when we
have too just to help handle what is going
on.
Posted by: Wild Thing at May 7, 2009 12:32 AM
Mark, I sure hope so. It is a joy to see the
spirit they have and to see them speak out
like this.
Posted by: Wild Thing at May 7, 2009 12:33 AM
Euh...no teleprompters ? Obama has so much to learn about these teens.
Posted by: RWC at May 7, 2009 05:43 AM
