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James Buchal's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)

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James Buchal has refused to provide voters with positions on key issues covered by the 2014 Political Courage Test, despite repeated requests.

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  • 92% rating by the NRA in 2012
  • "Maybe Tahmooressi suffers from PTSD. Maybe he should have been more careful with his driving. A just system would set Sgt. Tahmooressi free, but we don't have justice for gun owners anymore, in Mexico or the United States. We have a web of strict liability and vicious punishment for offenses that injure no one. A Marine visiting New York innocently attempted to check his .45 with security when visiting the Empire State Building and wound up in jail facing a multi-year prison sentence. Unlike Mexico, he could make bail and ultimately make a plea bargain, but the principle is the same. After a couple more decades, when all the public school children raised in terror of guns grow up, citizens like Tahmooressi may rot in maximum security cells on the American side of the border,Both Mexico and the United States have constitutions protecting gun rights, but both nations are run by Leftists who don't believe in constitutional rights at all, much less for gun owners. For Leftists, a constitution is not to constrain the government; if anything, it is a charter for granting special rights to progressive allies at the expense of political opponents. And there are no more important opponents to progressives than gun owners, because gun owners know instinctively that they cannot rely upon the government to protect them." (votesmart.org)
  • "It makes sense to offer the good illegal immigrants a path to citizenship, but not an easy one. Lots of law-abiding foreigners have been waiting in line for years, and they come first. The whole immigration bureaucracy, like most other federal bureaucracies, needs to be simplified and restarted from scratch. Citizenship must be earned, and our new immigrants need to meet standards of Americanization that are frankly higher than those held by many Americans. We can't add more voters who believe there is nothing special about America, and our Constitution, or we are going to destroy the last hope of liberty in the world." (votesmart.org)
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  • "As a member of Congress, I would fight to stop undeclared wars, and push to redirect defense spending back home, to restore our supremacy in space, and build a fortress America that is a beacon of liberty to the world, not a meddling and incompetent empire. We can build a bright future, or fall on the ash heap with the failed empires of history. It's up to you. You know we can't trust the leaders we have. What are you going to do about it?" (votesmart.org)
  • "Social Security is going to have to evolve into a means-based system that trims checks for people that don’t really need them." (buchal.nationbuilder.com)

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