1. The Second Amendment to the US Constitution is very clear that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Question is where do you stand on individual states having laws on the books that infringe on the individual’s right to keep and bear arms?
I’m big on separating “Issues” from solutions so let me take this one apart – the real problem is gun violence not guns. I am not aware of any workable US-based solutions to gun violence that involve infringing on individual’s right to keep and bear arms.
This would effectively make me a second amendment advocate if we were just talking vanilla “issues”. I’m explaining my thought process here because I want people to know I don’t have stances, I’ve actually thought about these things.
A more effective way to prevent gun violence would be to deal with the root causes – starting with mental illness. Laws against guns have no impact on mental illness. I am not in favor of overly broad or ineffective laws.
What am I likely to see hit my desk from the legislature? I’m expecting no bills impacting gun ownership will escape the Senate. I’m not sure anyone even tried to file one in 2015? I would love for them to work on mental illness as an issue.
2. There are laws in the KRS that promote inequality as far as ballot access is concerned. For certain offices, Democrats and Republicans need only 2 votes to gain access to the ballot, all others need 5000 signatures to gain access to the ballot. What would you do as Governor to promote a remedy for this?
As the only candidate impacted by this, here is a bit of good news – initially I thought that having to get 5,000 signatures would be a burden, but it turns out it’s actually been a useful way to engage people early in the process. It’s not great, mind you, but it’s not as bad as I thought.
I’d probably reduce it down to 1,000 signatures if anything, then require even party candidates to obtain them.
What am I likely to see hit my desk from the legislature? I’m pretty sure neither party has any interest in allowing candidates to get elected without party help. So this is likely moot as well (although I wouldn’t mind some discussion around it)
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