[University of North Texas Suspends Student for… Gun Ownersh]

On 12/11/2018 at 3:51 AM, peanuts104 said:

I saw this story and came here to see if there was more clarification.  There is not.  The only narrative I can find is the one being put out by OCT (open carry texas).  I don't have an issue with OCT, however I would like more than Mr. Masin's side of the story.  I know that the other side are being told not to share details , however, it seems these details are not being clearly communicated to Mr. Masin as well, or at least that's how he's presenting it.

My point, he seems (either genuinely or acting like) he doesn't know why this is happening, and we have no counter story.  Until we get clarification from another authority or source, I'm not going to trust the comment section on ammoland about this being justified.  The university needs to come out with concrete evidence/charges/something to back up their case.  I would be very interested to see the actual message or messages they found to be "threats" or "threatening" or whatever.

Linked is a video interview with Mr. Masin with some dude from Firearm's Policy Coalition.  The interviewer asks a lot of leading questions and it is obviously pro gun bias.  I was looking for another source or information from the other side of this story and I couldn't find one.  In my opinion, the university has not handled this well in terms of info disclosure.

EDIT DERP FORGOT YOUTUBE LINK, it's a long interview and again is only one side of the story.

 

I am the student in question. Not terribly interested in defending myself in a forum with people entirely outside of the situation, however, you do raise a perfectly valid point about the availability of information and essentially just being told "things" from all sorts of different sides that claim to be objective. The organization FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, sort of like the ACLU of university issues) has received all correspondence that the university has sent to me regarding this incident as well as the recording I made of the meeting with the university's CARE team and investigator and will be publishing an open letter detailing everything that objectively took place, the legal wrongs and proof thereof. That should be a very fact based, nonbiased read whenever it does come out and you can decide for yourself of course.

 

As far as the various outlets and reportings, I've made it very clear with every outlet ranging from these guys to the Dallas Morning News I've no problem sitting down with anyone and telling them anything regarding this it's ultimately the same set of facts and I'm just essentially on repeat. Sorry if the editorializing is getting to you but anything that's not a direct quote from me is outside of my control. Same with the anonymous post supposedly from another student stating I basically Wild West my way through the law school flashing guns and for some reason openly laying a pistol out on a library table (library has glass walls so that means literally dozens of people can at anytime glance in) and mysteriously no one reported ever, and all that mess. No point arguing with an anonymous forum individual that could ultimately be just a random troll.

 

Seriously though, I'm open to be asked whatever, and as far as an objective source goes, besides FIRE that I mentioned above I think that's the best you'll get as no matter which way it goes anyone trying to cover this will have a desired view/spin and outcome.