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WV: Senators Charles Clements, Ryan Weld Explain Votes Against Campus Carry Bill
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The bill would have placed limits on concealed carry privileges where organized events were taking place, at day care facilities on campuses, in campus areas used by law enforcement and in some other campus spaces.
HB 2519 died in the Senate Judiciary Committee on a vote of 8-7 with Senate Majority Whip Ryan Weld, R-Brooke, and Sen. Charles Clements, R-Wetzel, joining Democrats in opposition to the measure.
�The school administration are all against it, the teachers are against it, and the majority of students are against it,� Clements said. �It seems what we were looking for was a solution to a problem that doesn�t exist.� |
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�The school administration are all against it, the teachers are against it, and the majority of students are against it,� Clements said. �It seems what we were looking for was a solution to a problem that doesn�t exist.�
Bearing arms for self-protection is a fundamental right. Fundamental rights aren't subject to popular opinion or even any plebiscite. It doesn't matter WHO is "against it"; fundamental rights cannot be vetoed, set aside or otherwise nulllified.
"My vote on that bill was about local control.�
McDonald et al v. City of Chicago (2010) applied the 2nd Amendment to the states and their subdivisions via the 14th Amendment, per D.C. v. Heller (2008).
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. � Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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