Ask Mitt Romney A Question
Courtesy, of course, from the guys at Field and Stream.
Here’s mine:
Gov. Romney
America just celebrated the 153rd birthday of John Moses Browning. In addition to being an early Mormon leader, he is also widely regarded as one of the most important American’s in history, ever the equal of Samuel Colt and the holder of the patent on most of our historic, treasured, used, and valued firearms.
Yet, these guns which he designed 100 years ago, the designs of which are still well used to this day (in fact, I’ve got my Colt 1911 on my hip as I write this) would be easily branded as an “assault weapon” if designed and marketed today. In fact, one, the pinnacles of his handgun design The Browning High Power, is actually banned in the state you govern, Massachusetts.
Gov. Romney, if elected, what efforts will you undertake to reverse the bigoted trends of states like Massachusetts to strip American’s of their god given right to self defense and how would you ensure the spirit and designs of John Browning live on amongst the people of these United States?
Hurry, it turns out they are picking the best questions posted sometime today for submission to Romney’s campaign
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Dear Gov. Romney:
You support the prohibition of so-called Assault Weapons, which are semi-automatic “civilian” versions of military small arms.
The issue of the Second Amendment currently stands before the US Supreme Court. If the Court were to rule that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms, and also rules (as they did in Miller, 1939) that the criterion for protection is that arms have “some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia”, it is clear that “assault weapons” would be among those firearms most clearly protected from prohibition.
How would you reconcile your support for an “assault weapons” ban with such a ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States?
Comment by Carl Dick (Chicago, IL) — January 28, 2008 @ 1:17 pm
I want to know where Mitt Romney stands on the Pro-Life issue. Are you Pro-Life or Pro-Abortion? Simple question, please simply answer it! Thank You. Michele L. Greb
Comment by Michele L. Greb — January 29, 2008 @ 4:37 pm