[Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2016-04: Amend Gun Rights Resolution

[Caryn Ann Harlos]

Aye

On Sunday, August 14, 2016, Alicia Mattson <agmattson at gmail.com> wrote:

> We have an electronic mail ballot.
>
>
> *Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by August 23, 2016 at 11:59:59pm
> Pacific time.*
> *Co-Sponsors:*  Starchild, Vohra, Harlos, Demarest
>
> *Motion:*  amend the resolution adopted in Email Ballot 2016-03 as
> follows:
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> WHEREAS, Libertarians affirm that self-defense is an inherent human right;*
> and*
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>
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> WHEREAS, the Platform of the Libertarian Party opposes all laws at any
> level of government restricting, registering, or monitoring the ownership,
> manufacture, or transfer of firearms or ammunition;* and*
>
>
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> WHEREAS, the Platform of the Libertarian Party affirms the right of due
> process and deny*denies* the legitimacy of *laws against *“victimless *"*
> crimes”;* and*
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>
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> WHEREAS, the government*s in the United States have *has steadily
> encroached upon these rights by illegitimately regulating and restricting
> access for *to *firearms and ammunition and may further seek to deprive
> people who have been convicted of no crime of their inherent right to full *abrogate
> civil rights, and indeed the basic human right, to *self-defense by *prohibiting
> access *denying their civil and inherent rights to obtain firearms and
> ammunition* even in cases where a person has not been convicted of any
> crime*;* and*
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> *WHEREAS some recent statements by Libertarian candidates appearing in the
> media have the potential to cause confusion among members of the public
> regarding how Libertarians view these issues;*
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> *THEREFORE *BE IT RESOLVED that the Libertarian National Committee
> opposes any *law or *policy which would deny *or restrict any person's *access
> to any firearms or ammunition to any person simply for being placed *as a
> result of their name appearing *on any *a *government watch or no-fly list*,
> *and reaffirms its call to repeal *both our party's opposition to any
> further *and oppose any existing or proposed *regulations on *firearm*s* and
> ammunition *as described above and our demand that all such existing *
> regulations* be repealed, and calls upon Libertarian candidates to uphold
> our party's pro-freedom stance*.
>
> -Alicia
>
>

-- 
*In Liberty,*
*Caryn Ann Harlos*
Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska, Arizona,
Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann.
Harlos at LP.org <Caryn.Ann.Harlos at LP.org>
Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado
<http://www.lpcolorado.org>
Colorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party Radical Caucus
<http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org>
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