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

[Ed Marsh]

I vote No on Email Ballot 2016-04   Ed Marsh     Region 2 Rep





      From: Alicia Mattson <agmattson at gmail.com>
 To: lnc-business at hq.lp.org 
 Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2016 2:12 AM
 Subject: [Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2016-04: Amend Gun Rights Resolution
   
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: 

WHEREAS, Libertarians affirm that self-defense is aninherent human right; and WHEREAS, the Platform of the Libertarian Party opposesall laws at any level of government restricting, registering, or monitoring theownership, manufacture, or transfer of firearms or ammunition; and WHEREAS, the Platform of the LibertarianParty affirms the right of due process and denydenies the legitimacy of laws against “victimless "crimes”;and WHEREAS, the governments in the United States have has steadily encroached upon these rights by illegitimately regulatingand restricting access for to firearms and ammunition and may further seek to deprive people who have been convicted of nocrime 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 firearmsand ammunition even incases where a person has not been convicted of any crime; and
WHEREAS some recent statements by Libertariancandidates appearing in the media have the potential to cause confusion amongmembers of the public regarding how Libertarians view these issues; 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proposed regulations on firearms and ammunition as described above and ourdemand that all such existing regulations be repealed, and calls upon Libertarian candidates touphold our party's pro-freedom stance.

-Alicia


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