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Weapons, politics discussed at forum
Locals gather to share views on guns, shooting gallery
Gun Forum
A Democratic Party forum brought news of a shooting and archery complex moving toward construction at Georgia Southern University, a lawyer’s history of the Second Amendment and a minister’s impassioned plea to resist a pro-gun culture.Dr. Vince Miller, the associate vice president for student affairs at Georgia Southern, was the first of three speakers for Saturday’s “Guns and Politics” forum. Statesboro attorney Michael Classens and the Rev. Jane Page, the pastor of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Statesboro, also spoke at the event hosted by the Bulloch County Democratic Party at Statesboro Regional Library.Miller gave an update on development of the GSU Shooting Sports Education Center. Under discussion for the past two years as a joint project of the university and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, the $7 million facility will be part of the Georgia Southern campus.
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