Gun control should be taken personally

Davd Codrea, writer for Guns magazine brings up a very important point in this months rights watch column. We are all subject to the vagaries of some activist judges that are anti-gun and anti-freedom.

Tea Party organizer Walter Reddy had his guns taken away from him by a Connecticut judge for one year, even though he had committed no crime. This is a lnk to the original article.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/7201-railroading-of-walter-reddy-patriots-legally-owned-guns-seized

Some of the main points of the story are,

• Walter Reddy has no criminal record of any kind.

• Reddy was never charged with a crime, but his legally held guns were taken from him anyway. He is, however, a widely known constitutional political activist and persistent critic of big government.

• Reddy repeatedly asked for an opportunity to get a lawyer before a February 25 hearing on possession of his guns, and was denied his request.

• The chief witness brought by the state against Reddy explicitly stated that Reddy had never acted in a threatening or violent way.

• No other witness even attempted to claim that Reddy was threatening or violent.

And yet the city sent a SWAT team for 1 shotgun and 1 antique revolver. Nothing like a little overkill. How many are they going to send to your house, or mine? Especially since I own more than two firearms.

From the article,
“It doesn’t matter that he has committed no crimes, and has not been charged with a crime. [Connecticut Superior Court Judge Bruce Hudock] told him at a hearing that Reddy had no right to an attorney and that ‘I’m ready to rule’ to take his guns away before the patriotic organizer had the chance to say one word in his defense.”

What happened to the Constitution and the principle that we are "innocent until proven guilty"? No right to a attorney? Where do these asshat judges come from? The very idea that a judge can just take someones guns without due process should anger every freedom loving person in the country.
How much longer are we the law abiding going to let this go on. It's time we started standing up against such tyranny. You would think that with 60 million gun owners in this country we would have a say in these matters.

A second travesty that David brings us happened at the University of Kentucky. You can read the original article here, http://gunowners.org/a04272011.htm

Kentucky Revised Statutes sec. 27.020 seems to prevent a state institution like the University of Kentucky from interfering with the Second Amendment rights of a concealed carry permit holder. That section holds, in part, that “[n]o person or organization, public or private, shall prohibit” a concealed carry permit holder from transporting a firearm in his vehicle in accordance with law.

From David's article,
"Michael Mitchell, a graduate student and former anesthesia technician, was fired by the University of Kentucky for keeping a gun in his car a mile away from the university hospital where he was employed,"

Over a mile away and not on university property. Why is it any business of the university what he does when not on their property. Even though I believe denying a persons rights just for crossing some line on a map is just wrong. Do these people that run the university not know that slavery was abolished? They might be able to dictate to you while on their property, but that is where it is supposed to end. More tyranny against the law abiding citizen facilitated by a activist judge that should be removed from the bench. Until honest citizen stand up for their rights afforded by the Constitution we will see more and more of this type of activity.