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

[James Lark]

Dear colleagues:

     I hope all is well with you.  I am writing in my capacity as Region 
5 representative to vote "aye" on the motion.

     As always, thanks for your work for liberty.

     Take care,
     Jim

     James W. Lark, III
     Advisor, The Liberty Coalition
     University of Virginia

     Region 5 Representative, Libertarian National Committee
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On 8/14/2016 2:12 AM, Alicia Mattson 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:
>
> WHEREAS, Libertarians affirm that self-defense is an inherent human 
> right;_and_
>
> 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_
>
> WHEREAS, the Platform of the Libertarian Party affirms the right of 
> due process and deny_denies_the legitimacy of _laws against 
> _“victimless _"_crimes”;_and_
>
> 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_
>
> _
> _
>
> _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;_
>
> _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
>
>
>
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