Issue Position: 2nd Amendment

Issue Position

Bill of Rights -- 2nd Amendment: A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

I believe all citizens, except felons and the mentally ill, have the right to bear arms. The 2nd amendment was written at a time when our country had just overcome occupation by England. The greatest violence against citizens has not been caused by legally armed citizens, but by governments like Germany, USSR, China, Cambodia and many others preying on their unarmed populations. The Founders understood this. Like the founders of our republic, I consider the 2ndAmendment to be second only to the first amendment guaranteeing the freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly.

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