Challenging “Gun Free” Zones at the GRPC

By Dean Weingarten

Dr. John Edeen
Dr. John Edeen
Dean Weingarten
Dean Weingarten

Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)- Dr. John Edeen, above spoke as part of a panel on targeting “Gun Free Zones”.

Dr. Edeen was not always part of the gun culture.   He grew up in New Jersey, but now practices medicine in San Antonio, Texas.

He started taking colleagues shooting, and talking about the dangerous “gun free” policy of the hospital where he works.

He ran into considerable opposition, but over the course of time, he has converted many.

He says that he has obtained over 400 signatures from coworkers on a petition for the Hospital to change its policy.

Massad Ayoob pointed out several instances where armed citizens had stopped mass shootings;  Chris Byrd, the author, gave an update on school districts who are arming teachers and staff in Texas.

Over 40 are doing so to date.

Argyle Independent School District (ISD) has posted these signs (Seen Below), which Chris showed to the conference attendees.

Argyle Independent School District Armed Staff Signs
Argyle Independent School District Armed Staff Signs

Gun Free Zones are becoming less popular than they once were.   Dr. Edeen noted that he received a large increase in signatures after Dr. Lee Silverman used his personal sidearm to stop the killing at Fitzgerald Hospital this last July.

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About Dean Weingarten;

Dean Weingarten has been a peace officer, a military officer, was on the University of Wisconsin Pistol Team for four years, and was first certified to teach firearms safety in 1973. He taught the Arizona concealed carry course for fifteen years until the goal of constitutional carry was attained. He has degrees in meteorology and mining engineering, and recently retired from the Department of Defense after a 30 year career in Army Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation.

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TEX

All the tyranny and unconstitutional bullshat the liberal,gungrabbing losers were hoping for has really blown up in their faces and they are in the desperation mode esp. with the mid-terms approaching ! I have noticed that in some liberal political circles lately they are running from any anti 2A legislation and don’t want their names associated with it! They are figuring out that its just not conducive with holding office long in this country.

Dean Weingarten

Fixed. Jim Wallace talked to me.

Debra Grumbach

That picture is not Dr. John Edeen. That is Jim Wallace, executive director of Gun Owners Action League (Massachusetts).