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

[Alicia Mattson]

The motion to amend the public policy resolution is simply a proposal that
we adopt a different public policy resolution, so it is still subject to
the bylaw requirement for adopting public policy resolutions.

-Alicia



On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Caryn Ann Harlos <carynannharlos at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Alicia, I have a request for information.  It does not affect this, but it
> is for my education.  Does a motion to amend something previously adopted
> require the same 3/4?  Is there a Robert's reference for that?  Again, it
> doesn't matter here since it failed even by a simple majority, but I would
> like to know for future reference.
>
> --
> *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
> Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado
> <http://www.lpcolorado.org/>
> Colorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party Radical Caucus
> <http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org/>
>
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 3:00 PM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Voting has ended for the email ballot shown below.
>>
>> *Voting "aye":*  Demarest, Harlos, Hayes, Lark, Starchild, Vohra
>>
>> *Voting "nay":*  Bilyeu, Bittner, Goldstein, Hagan, Katz, Marsh,
>> Mattson, McKnight, Starr
>>
>> With a final vote tally of 6-9, the motion did not meet the 3/4 vote
>> threshold required by Bylaws Article 7.11 to adopt public policy
>> resolutions, so it FAILS.
>>
>> For 10 days there has been no objection to correcting the deny/denies
>> grammatical error in the original version of email ballot 2016-03, so that
>> has been approved.
>>
>> -Alicia
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 11:12 PM, 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:
>>>
>>> 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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>
>
> --
> *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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