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Morris, Annalee
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Rep. Steube-Email 3
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STEUBEPolitifact.docx

From: Steube, W. Gregory [mailto:wgsteube@bplegal.com]
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2015 9:57 AM
To: Morris, Annalee
Cc: Gay, Alyssa; Tamayo, Justin (jt14c@my.fsu.edu)
Subject: FW: This is what I did with your OpEd

This is a revised OpEd. Its shorter and too the point, what are your thoughts on this one all?
From: MPHammer1@aol.com [mailto:MPHammer1@aol.com]
Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 10:16 AM
To: wgsteube@gmail.com
Subject: This is what I did with your OpEd
I took the liberty of editing it significantly. You may not like what I did with it but it is an option. It is
428 words. I have also attached it as a Word document
REVISED OpEd
Recently Politifact’s Joshua Gillin wrote a story rating my testimony that Umpqua Community College is
a gun free zone as “Mostly false.”
Politifact is playing politics, ignoring facts and misleading readers. My statement was and is true. My
comments were a direct quote from the Umpqua Community College website that specifically states:
"Possession, use, or threatened use of firearms (including but not limited to BB guns, air guns, water
pistols, and paint guns) ammunition, explosives, dangerous chemicals, or any other objects as
weapons on college property, except as expressly authorized by law or college regulations, is
prohibited....”(Emphasis added)
And a National Review article by JOHN LOTT, a nationally recognized researcher, on October 20,
2015, summarized the policy:
"Umpqua Community College, scene of a recent mass shooting, was yet another gun-free zone.
Oregon law allows permitted concealed handguns on university property, but public educators have
undermined the law by putting bans in faculty and student handbooks. For students and faculty, the
threat of expulsion or termination is surely threat enough. Faculty members may lose not only their jobs
but also their career. Students are unlikely to ever be admitted to another school and must live with the
fact that they will never get the college degree that they were working on. In Oregon, students and
faculty are prohibited from carrying firearms on public university campuses. Only people unaffiliated with
the college are allowed to carry. But even they are subject to a 2011 Oregon appeals court decision
that allows schools to ban guns in their buildings."
I have never seen a single article stating that concealed carry license holders could carry anywhere on