- Brett Poulos
Brett Michael Poulos is a Texas college student involved in a dispute over First Amendment rights. The
Associated Press reported in May 2008 that he and theFoundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) claimTarrant County College "violated some students' constitutional rights by not allowing them to wear empty holsters and limiting their speech to a 12 foot diameter concrete platform, as part of a nationwide protest over campuses' ban on concealed weapons . [cite news |url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D90RKANG1.html |work=The Dallas Morning News |date=2008-05-28 |title=Student says college violated rights by banning protest |first=Angela K. |last=Brown |publisher=Associated Press |accessdate=2008-06-02] [cite press release |url=http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/9338.html |title=Tarrant County College Bans Symbolic 'Empty Holster' Protest; Banishes Students with Dissenting Opinions to Small Free Speech Zone |publisher=Foundation for Individual Rights in Education |date=2008-05-22 |accessdate=2008-06-02 ]Poulos serves as a national media liaison for
Students for Concealed Carry on Campus and is working with theFoundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) to overturn TCC's ruling. [cite news |url=http://www.kcrw.com/news/programs/tp/tp080418guns_public_safety_a |title=Guns: Public Safety and the Second Amendment |date=2008-04-18 |work=
To the Point |publisher=KCRW |accessdate=2008-06-02] [cite web |url=http://www.kcrw.com/people/news/programs/tp/tp080418guns_public_safety_a/poulos_brett |title=Brett Poulos |publisher=KCRW |accessdate=2008-06-02]References
External links
*" [http://www.normantranscript.com/letters/local_story_082003820 Professors don't understand gun issue] ", "
The Norman Transcript ",March 22 ,2008 . Letter to the editor by Brett Poulos.
*" [http://www.star-telegram.com/229/story/661857.html Student criticizes TCC empty-holster ban] "The Fort Worth Star Telegram Editorial about Poulos' 1st Amendment issue.
*" [http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/9356.html Controversy continues to surround guns on campus] ", Joe Murray, "The Bulletin ".
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