2aHawaii
General Topics => Legal and Activism => Topic started by: punaperson on December 10, 2014, 09:10:55 AM
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Here's a consequence of endorsing and voting for "the lesser of two evils" (duh... you get evil), though he was portrayed that way by NRA-PVF (NRA Political Victory Fund):
https://www.nrapvf.org/articles/20141020/nra-pvf-endorses-larry-hogan-for-governor-in-general-election-on-november-4 (https://www.nrapvf.org/articles/20141020/nra-pvf-endorses-larry-hogan-for-governor-in-general-election-on-november-4)
Note the article is 90%+ about the negatives of the Democratic candidate, rather than any positive Second Amendment advocacy by the endorsed Republican, except for the obligatory "supports the Second Amendment" utterances.
And now that he's in office, governor of Maryland, where the current (2013 enacted) Maryland Firearms Safety Act bans 45 assault weapons, limits magazines to 10 rounds and requires fingerprint licensing for the purchase of handguns?
“If we get bogged down on tinkering around with law in Maryland on controversial issues, we’re never going be able to work together across party lines to fix our broken economy,” Hogan spokesman Adam Dubitsky told the University of Maryland campus newspaper, the Diamondback.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/12/04/nra-endorsed-incoming-gop-governor-will-keep-states-sweeping-gun-control-law/ (http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/12/04/nra-endorsed-incoming-gop-governor-will-keep-states-sweeping-gun-control-law/)
This is the law that's "bad" enough that 21 Attorneys General of other states have joined in the lawsuit to attempt to overturn the law.
Another example of potential voting power and the possibility of NOT electing a "lesser" evil: In the recent California gubernatorial race, the total number of votes for the two major candidates (both of whom shared very similar views on strictly limiting firearm rights... and it's friggin' California!) was 3.8 million for D, 2.6 million for R = 6.4 million total votes. In California there are at least 8 million gun owners. If just HALF of them had voted Libertarian, gun rights would have been restored to the state in the fairly near future (assuming that those same voters would have voted Libertarian in the legislative races as well). And yet, nothing. Nothing at all. Obviously no one has figured out a strategy to get these people to the polls on voting day. I suspect the same for Hawaii, though not as high a percentage of potential voters, but still enough to make a difference in at least some of the races.