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LA: Bond Commission becomes 2nd Amendment battleground
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An effort to block Citigroup and Bank of America from doing business with Louisiana because of the companies' gun policies fell just short during a fractious State Bond Commission meeting here Thursday.
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But in the end the vote was 8-6 to pass a substitute proposal from Gov. John Bel Edwards' top attorney allowing the commission to consider the companies' policies when making a decision on awarding bids on bonds, but not to bar them. |
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PHORTO
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"As a West Point graduate, Army Ranger, and avid hunter, I’m a staunch defender of the Second Amendment," Edwards said.
No you're not. You're a DEMOCRAT. Thank you for your service, but you should have remained in the military. It's obvious you're better at following orders than giving them. And the Second Amendment has NOTHING to do with hunting.
It has to do with protecting the right of the people to keep and bear contemporary arms in common use that have unarguable militia utility.
And if those companies can make a political statement, so can your commission.
Too bad it made the wrong statement, thanks to YOU. |
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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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