I received the following response to my Gun Rights Political Questionnaire out of the blue from Joel Stoner, the mayor of Macks Creek, a small town (pop. 267 in the 2000 census) in MO. I'm using the Gun Rights Examiner columns to feature selected national races, but thought this deserved mention, particularly for the great idea he proposes at the end.
1. Do you believe that the Constitution is the "supreme law of the land" and that the Bill of Rights acknowledges our birthrights?
Yes
2. If so, should these rights be proactively protected from infringement by all levels of government, including city, county and state?
Yes
3. Please give some examples of gun laws you consider constitutional.
Laws requiring citizens to own firearms for the common protection of the city.
4. Please give some examples of gun laws you consider unconstitutional.
All others
5. Does the right to bear arms include the right for any peaceable citizen to carry them concealed without a permit, as in Vermont?
Yes
6. Do you believe that Americans have a right to own, use and carry weapons of military pattern, and will you use the prestige of elected office to publicly promote that right?
Yes, the second amendment was intended for the militia, by having an armed militia the people can protect their republic. Tell me how i can help and i will do what i can to promote the ownership of "military" style weapons. Truth is all firearms are suitable for military service. I personally own an SKS.
7. Do you support or oppose registration of weapons? Why?
I am dead set against any form of registration. Registration is the first step to confiscation. See Red Dawn for evidence that registration can be abused easily.
8. Do you support or oppose licensing requirements to own or carry firearms? Why?
Rights exist without government permission, to require a license to own or carry a firearm would severely infringe the second amendment right.
9. What specific gun laws will you work to get repealed?
I would like to see a repeal of all gun laws.
10. If elected, will you back your words of support for firearms
rights up with consistent actions? How?
The City of Macks Creek has passed resolutions in support of firearms ownership. I personally have been talking to the NRA to form a Mayors who support gun rights, to counter Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns(MAIG).
Cordially,
Joel Stoner, Mayor
City of Macks Creek, Missouri
I almost thought this was some kind of joke.
ReplyDeleteGuess not.
Consider what wiki says about Macks Creek:
For years, Macks Creek had one of the most infamous speed traps in the entire nation, with a strictly enforced 45-MPH speed limit along US 54, which currently has a 60-MPH speed limit on either side of town. However, in 1995, that all came to a screeching halt when the State of Missouri passed a law prohibiting Missouri cities and towns from collecting more than 45% of their total revenue from speeding tickets—and Macks Creek had been collecting approximately 85% of its revenue from speeding tickets. Since the officers' hands were tied with the new law, the entire police department quit and the mayor resigned from office.
This is Stoner's MySpace page.
Does that include laws prohibiting the mentally ill and convicted felons from owning firearms?
ReplyDeleteFederale
ReplyDeleteYes even those laws. If you can not be trusted to exercise all your rights then you should be locked up.
While I am certainly a fan of politicians rolling back restrictions on our natural rights, I am a bit concerned about someone citing "Red Dawn" as evidence of anything.
ReplyDeleteMr. Scotty,
ReplyDeleteThe movie Red Dawn does give a simple illustration of how a gun registry could be abused. Strike that, a registry will be abused without question. Many people need a visual reference in order to understand, and the excellent films produced by the JPFO are not accessible to everyone.
LC Scotty
ReplyDeleteWould you prefer references that aren't based on US examples? Like Germany? They had firearms registration, that led to confiscation, and then extermination.
LC, Red Dawn has a scene in it where the invading officers told their troops to go to the gun shops and get the 4473 forms. While Red Dawn was fiction, this is entirely plausible. And the People's Demokratik Republik of Kollyvornia (PDRK) actually made this scenario come true: owners of so-called "assault weapons" were told that they could register theirs with the promise that the government would never take them. A year later, it was "Turn them in, or face police action." Those that trusted the PDRK's promise lost their guns, but most owners of such rifles did not trust the government, and kept mum, and their guns.
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