Annapolis Book Festival: Who Has the Right To Bear Arms?

[Norton]

https://www.facebook.com/events/1391038504503435/

Looks like our favorite anti-gun drone, Daniel Webster, will be there along with Emily Miller.

Figured this might be a good learning opportunity as well as to have a presence there.

Annapolis Book Festival:

Saturday April 5, 2014 10:00am

Who Has the Right to Bear Arms?

The event is free and open to the public on a first come basis. Please feel free to share with your members.

Join us for an important discussion on gun control policy as advocates take a closer look at the second amendment from various viewpoints.

Emily Miller: Emily Gets Her
Gun, But Obama Wants to Take Yours,

Craig Whitney: Living With Guns, A Liberal’s
Case for the Second Amendment,

Daniel Webster: Reducing Gun Violence in America:
Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis,
and moderated by Paul Barrett, assistant
managing editor of Bloomberg Business week and author of
Glock, the Rise of America's Gun.

http://www.keyschool.org/community/annapolis-book-festival/index.aspx

 

[Minuteman]

Looks like Room 1; from 10-11:00. I'll try to make it, I don't see a registration or anything.

Details:


WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS?
10:00-11:00 a.m. • Room 1 - Katharine Hall

Join us for an important discussion on gun control policy as experts and advocates take a closer look at the second amendment from various viewpoints.

Emily Miller
Emily Miller is senior editor of the opinion pages at the Washington Times. She appears regularly on CNN, Fox News, CNBC, and CBS as an expert on gun-control issues, as well as other political topics. Ms. Miller received the Institute on Political Journalism’s Clark Mollenhoff Award for Investigative Reporting for her “Emily Gets Her Gun” series on the District of Columbia’s gun laws; the National Rifle Association’s Civil Rights Defense Fund’s Carter Knight Freedom Fund Award; and the Second Amendment Foundation’s “Journalist of the Year” award in 2012 and 2013. Ms. Miller was the senior editor of human events and a columnist for AOL’s Politics Daily and has worked in the Washington bureaus of ABC News and NBC News. She served as the associate producer for ABC News' This Week as well as for Good Morning America. Ms. Miller was deputy press secretary at the U.S. Department of State as a political appointee in the administration of President George W. Bush, where she worked directly with Secretaries of State Colin L. Powell and Condoleezza Rice. A Baltimore native, she is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.



Daniel W. Webster
Daniel W. Webster is a professor of health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. There, he serves as director of the Center for Gun Policy and Research, deputy director of Research for the Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence, and director of the Ph.D. program in Health and Public Policy. Dr. Webster has published numerous articles on the prevention of gun violence, firearm policy, youth gun acquisition and carrying, intimate partner violence, and the prevention of youth violence. He is currently leading studies evaluating the effects of various efforts to reduce violence, including state gun and alcohol policies, policing strategies focused on deterring gun violence, a community gun violence prevention initiative, and Maryland's Lethality Assessment Program for reducing the recurrence of intimate partner violence. Dr. Webster teaches courses in violence prevention and research methods for health policy at Johns Hopkins, and serves on the executive committee of Johns Hopkins' Interdepartmental Violence Research Pre and Post-Doctoral Training Program.



Craig R. Whitney
Craig R. Whitney spent forty-four years as an assistant managing editor at the New York Times. He served in the U.S. Navy in Washington, DC, and in Saigon as a junior officer between 1966 and 1969. At the Times, Mr. Whitney had more than 3,200 bylined articles as a reporter in New York, as a foreign correspondent in Saigon during the Vietnam War, and in Bonn, Moscow, London, Berlin, and Paris during the Cold War and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. While stationed in Moscow in 1978, he was tried on civil charges of slander against the State Radio and Television Committee in an article about a dissident in 1978. Mr. Whitney speaks French, German and Russian and is the author of Spy Trader, a biography about an East German lawyer who negotiated Cold War exchanges of spies. He was the editor of The WMD Mirage, about the Bush administration’s decision to go to war with Iraq in 2003. Mr. Whitney's latest book, about the Second Amendment to the Constitution, the right to keep and bear arms, is Living with Guns: A Liberal’s Case for the Second Amendment. He is also the author of All the Stops, a book about pipe organs in 20th century America, the builders who made them, and noted organists who played them. Mr. Whitney received a A.B. degree in French history and literature from Harvard College in 1965. Click to view Craig R. Whitney's website.



Paul M. Barrett
Moderator - Paul M. Barrett is an assistant managing editor and senior writer at Bloomberg Businessweek, a position he assumed in September 2005. He is responsible for writing cover articles on subjects ranging from the energy industry to national politics to the gun business. Prior to joining Bloomberg Businessweek, Mr. Barrett was an editor and legal affairs reporter for the Wall Street Journal. He is the author, most recently, of GLOCK: The Rise of America’s Gun, a New York Times bestseller. Mr. Barrett's earlier books are American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion, which was named to Best Books of 2007 lists by the Washington Post,Christian Science Monitor, and Publishers Weekly, and The Good Black: A True Story of Race in America. Mr. Barrett is a graduate of Harvard Law School and holds an A.B. from Harvard College. He teaches as an adjunct professor at New York University Law School. Click to view Paul M. Barrett's website.

 

[Mr H]

Webster's book title alone is proof of "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with BS"

 

[Biggfoot44]

For those of us who don't do no stinkin' social media, where is this Book Festival?

 

[dogbone]

For those of us who don't do no stinkin' social media, where is this Book Festival?

The Key School
534 Hillsmere Dr.
Annapolis, MD 21403

 

[Minuteman]

For those of us who don't do no stinkin' social media, where is this Book Festival?

The Key School is a campus located at:

The Key School
534 Hillsmere Dr.
Annapolis, MD 21403
410.263.9231

There is a campus map: http://www.keyschool.org/about_key/campus-tour/index.aspx

Google maps has good images of the building, parking and area.

 

[pbharvey]

The moderator is a Bloomberg employee...ugh.

 

[dogbone]

The moderator is a Bloomberg employee...ugh.

Ugh, indeed.

I'm a little mistrustful of these events ever since I went to a similar "forum" at Goucher College last spring. Goucher publicized the panel as having a couple strong pro-2A members, including David Keane, the president of the NRA. When the day of the event arrived, the actual panel was made up of a gun grabber love fest with only one 2A supporter.

If Emily Miller is actually attending and has not just been "invited" as a cloak for pre-event publicity purposes, I will gladly be there to support our cause.

 

[pbharvey]

Emily Miller can hold her own against the best of them though. I've watched her in some situations where she ended up looking like she invented common sense.

 

[Biggfoot44]

Alas , minutes after previous post , I received overtime.

 

[dogbone]

Emily Miller can hold her own against the best of them though. I've watched her in some situations where she ended up looking like she invented common sense.

I have no doubts of Emily Miller's ability to not only hold her own but to kick the asshats to the curb with truth and logic. If my schedule allows, I will be there to support her or any 2A proponent on the panel. I just have a feeling this event may be skewed in favor of our opposition. All the more reason for us to make a strong showing, but be ready for a large dose of gun grabbing bat shit crazy.

 

[Bolts Rock]

Invited all my FB pro=2A friends.

 

[dblas]

I intend to be there, I also sent out a FB invite to all of my #MD2A friends.

 

[tsmith1499]

1 hour is in NO WAY enough time for any kind of meaningful "discussion" between the 3 people involved.

 

[Mr H]

I'm game to be there and make it go into overtime.

But, I do find it more than a little interesting that it is scheduled right near the end of the GA session, especially considering what we were able to do last year at the same time, during the final FSA13 votes.

hmmmm.....

 

[dogbone]

I'm game to be there and make it go into overtime.

Looking at the festival's schedule, overtime may not be a possibility. They have another discussion set for the time slot immediately following the 2A event and a slew of other discussions throughout the day. But if it means a chance to cheer for Emily and piss in Webster's Wheaties... I'm there.

 

[Brooklyn]

Looking at the festival's schedule, overtime may not be a possibility. They have another discussion set for the time slot immediately following the 2A event and a slew of other discussions throughout the day. But if it means a chance to cheer for Emily and piss in Webster's Wheaties... I'm there.

been at this festival before -- they run a tight clock and you can expect a liberal crowd


I may make it, but i have a conflict out of town ..

 

[EL1227]

Emily would appreciate our support

I dropped her a quick line ...

Hi Emily,
I just saw the announcement. There's lots of interest from MSI and on MarylandShooters in attending already.

We’ll be there.

Her response ...

Emily Miller <emiller@washingtontimes.com>
Re: Annapolis Book Festival - Who Has the Right to Bear Arms?

That is so nice of you! I've been worried that it will be all anti gun liberals because it's two against one and the setting is liberal. So appreciate any audience who can ask pointed questions to the other guys.

Since it's 'in the neighborhood' and on a Saturday, I've put it on my calendar.

Anyone else planning on attending should start dissecting Webster's and Whitney's M.O.'s and have some 'ammo to fire' at them ... figuratively speaking of course.

 

[nedsurf]

I guess the Q&A will be interesting. So how did you decide to sacrifice your academic integrity for the favor of a billionaire?

 

[Lou45]

I'd like to make this event but will be doing the Frederick gun show that weekend.