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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tRidiot" data-source="post: 2512909" data-attributes="member: 9374">Ditto this.... the campus where my son goes to school is huge... I went to his spring assembly/concert the other night and had to leave it at home. No matter where I park off-campus, I would have to walk up a steep grade of hill and be a minimum of 2-3 blocks away AND parked alongside a busy public roadway - ON the shoulder. I guarantee I would get a ticket in no time. There's NO place to park outside the school property until you go another 2-3 blocks away to a large business complex. Literally would have to walk close to a quarter-mile, I think, to get to my son's assembly. Or just be undefended from the time we leave home until the time we return, which is what I did. When I drive to the school to pick up my son, I have to wait in the long, long line of cars to get him, instead of simply parking and walking 70 feet to get him and walk back to the truck.Point out that keeping firearms on every other campus in Oklahoma is already legal - universities AND vo-techs - with no incidents. That people don't have the option sometimes to go home in-between leaving the school or going to the school. I pull up to the school and I can see my son playing on the playground, but I can't get out of my truck and go to get him. In actuality, they have a playground monitor after school, and I HAVE to get out of the truck, walk over and sign my son out - while my truck is still in sight, it's about 75 feet away, and according to the letter of the law, if I have so much as a single round of .22 ammunition rolling around in my center console or a door pocket, I've committed a felony. It's just plat out stupid.A few weeks ago, I went to the public Easter-egg drop here in Bartlesville. Unfortunately, the park where it was held was quite full (of course, with thousands of people there) and they were not permitting people to park on the grass - they told us we would get a ticket. Not NEAR enough parking at the park for any kind of big event. Soooo.... they were directing people to the public school parking lot a block down the road. No-go for me, even though it was a Saturday and school wasn't in session, I was open-carrying and had a gun in the car as well and could not leave my car on school property. Told the guy directing traffic and he sympathized, said he was a former cop and he understood. But I was still S.O.L.Personally, I love to quote the stat in those situations that according to data compiled and published by the OSBI, Oklahoma permit-holders are on average less likely to commit a violent crime than our own commissioned law enforcement officers! That is what the number show... and usually that will open a few people's eyes, in my experience.Make sure you post your interview up here, AJ! Thanks!</blockquote>

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