I'm a student living in your district, and in light of yet another mass shooting, I cannot help but question you stance on guns. On your campaign website, you state:
"Elise is a staunch supporter of the 2nd Amendment and strongly opposes the NY SAFE Act. The deeply flawed legislation only leaves law-abiding New Yorkers in more danger of criminals breaking the law in the first place. Elise is a gun owner, a card-carrying member of the National Rifle Association, and will strongly oppose legislation and executive actions that infringe on the 2nd Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens."
Australia has seen a reduction in gun deaths since their massive buy-up in the mid nineties; other nations have tougher regulations on guns that result in …show more content…
Nowhere does it forbid reasonable regulation in order to protect the lives of innocent people. Of course, it's understandable that, since the Republican party pays its bills with money from the NRA among many other special interests (so do the Democrats, it's just not the NRA, so that's a fight for another day. They have just as many problems!), you would be hesitant to support legislation that would protect people's lives at the expense of gun sales.
The truth is current background checks and current regulations are NOT enough, and they need to be reformed. I am in no way against the Second Amendment, for I find the values instilled in the Constitution to very much represent a balance of the longterm interests of this nation, I simply ask that in order to make progress toward preventing even more deadly shootings and in-the-moment suicides that you take the time to consider what is really valuable and important: is the money from the NRA and the propagandist interpretation of the Second Amendment really more important that the lives of the almost 6,000 people who have died this year due to gun
"Elise is a staunch supporter of the 2nd Amendment and strongly opposes the NY SAFE Act. The deeply flawed legislation only leaves law-abiding New Yorkers in more danger of criminals breaking the law in the first place. Elise is a gun owner, a card-carrying member of the National Rifle Association, and will strongly oppose legislation and executive actions that infringe on the 2nd Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens."
Australia has seen a reduction in gun deaths since their massive buy-up in the mid nineties; other nations have tougher regulations on guns that result in …show more content…
Nowhere does it forbid reasonable regulation in order to protect the lives of innocent people. Of course, it's understandable that, since the Republican party pays its bills with money from the NRA among many other special interests (so do the Democrats, it's just not the NRA, so that's a fight for another day. They have just as many problems!), you would be hesitant to support legislation that would protect people's lives at the expense of gun sales.
The truth is current background checks and current regulations are NOT enough, and they need to be reformed. I am in no way against the Second Amendment, for I find the values instilled in the Constitution to very much represent a balance of the longterm interests of this nation, I simply ask that in order to make progress toward preventing even more deadly shootings and in-the-moment suicides that you take the time to consider what is really valuable and important: is the money from the NRA and the propagandist interpretation of the Second Amendment really more important that the lives of the almost 6,000 people who have died this year due to gun