Saturday, October 23, 2010

Guns and your Second Amendment Rights

I said I would talk about guns and have spoken to people on both sides of the issue, so here is my considered opinion.
More gun laws in general inconvenience the law abiding, while being ignored by the criminal. The problem is not guns per se, because the state of Wyoming is knee deep in guns, but has one of the lowest murder rates in the country.
The problem is illegal guns and all the gun crime in our cities. Big city mayors want more restrictions on gun onwnership and you can sympathise with them, because of course they hate the carnage in their cities. Gun owners fear that one day the mayors and their supporters in Congress might pass stringent federal controls on gun ownership. The NRA views any restriction as anathema, appearing heartless and deaf to the wails of the mothers grieving for their murdered children. So what to do? As it happens I have already touched on the solution. By working on eliminating the illegal drugs trade by legalizing marijuana and providing heroin to addicts in relapse and other measures, drug trade fueled gun violence will diminish to the point that big city mayors will no longer see any reason to push for gun ownership restrictions and people will start to forget what the Second Amendment is all about. This is Green Party policy, which is so brilliant, it actually secures your Second Amendment rights just as a side effect of its main goal and does it more effectively than the NRA ever could for all the their bombast and bluster.
Just to clarify, people have asked me about my views on the Second Amendment. However, remember this is the Second Amendment to the US Consitution which reads
" A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed"
However I am running for the Connecticut State House so the relevant clause of the Connecticut Constitution Article I, Section 15 reads
" Every citizen has a right to bear arms in defense of himself and the state" and that is the Constitution that if elected I will swear to uphold and defend.
So there you have it. Vote Green November 2nd and as well as all the other brilliant benefits Green Party policy will bring, you will actually get your gun rights secured better than the NRA ever can. I also want to make clear that the Green Party is the Peace Party and is against people shooting each other for any reason.

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