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ME: Maine urged to ban firearms in polling stations
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Mark A. Taff
Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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State lawmakers are weighing a proposal that would ban Mainers from packing firearms in polling stations, but gun rights groups say the changes are unnecessary.
LD 805 would authorize municipal officials to prohibit firearms in polling stations on Election Day.
Under the proposal, firearms would be prohibited from being within 250 feet of a polling station, though law-enforcement officers would be exempt from the ban. |
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PHORTO
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Rather, urge Maine to resist violating the Constitution.
"They are not absolute rights." she told the panel. "Both need to be treated equally in the polling station where they inevitably intersect with the right to vote, which is the elevated and primary right exercised in this location."
Baloney. That meme is pure leftist nonsense. "Shall not be infringed" is an ABSOLUTE statement.
Have there been historical problems with lawful carry at polling places? If so, I must have missed that memo. |
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| The right of a citizen to bear arms, in lawful defense of himself or the State, is absolute. He does not derive it from the State government. It is one of the high powers" delegated directly to the citizen, and `is excepted out of the general powers of government.' A law cannot be passed to infringe upon or impair it, because it is above the law, and independent of the lawmaking power." [Cockrum v. State, 24 Tex. 394, at 401-402 (1859)] |
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