Right to Own and Carry Weapons — “Gun Control is Using Both Hands” — “Molon Labe” (title cribbed from Joe Nichols)
- The LPNM calls for an amendment to the State Constitution changing Article II, Section 6 from
“No law shall abridge the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms for security and defense, for lawful hunting and recreational use and for other lawful purposes, but nothing herein shall be held to permit the carrying of concealed weapons. No municipality or county shall regulate, in any way, an incident of the right to keep and bear arms.”
to this —
“No law shall abridge the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms for security and defense, for lawful hunting and recreational use and for other lawful purposes. No municipality or county shall regulate, in any way, an incident of the right to keep and bear arms.”
- Call for legislative repeal or judicial overturning of NMSA:
- 30-7-2 prohibition against concealed weapons
- 30-7-8 prohibition against switchblades
- 3. 30-7-13 prohibition against carrying weapons on a bus
Or just call for the repeal or overturning of NMSA 30-7 in its entirety.
Here’s a partial list of my preferences for electoral policy[1]
- Enact uniform signature requirements for all candidates, regardless of partisan affiliation, or lack thereof. Every candidate for a given office should have to get the same number of signatures, and any registered voter should be able to sign any candidate’s nominating petition. No more of this bit about having to get signatures from only people registered with one party. End the current rule that if you sign more than one candidate’s petition, all of your nominating signatures are invalidated.
- End the practice of using tax dollars to fund the conventions and primaries of the “major party” organizations. Let parties pick their candidates however they choose.
- Leave the straight-party voting option off the ballot. If it does get put back on, then put straight “YES” and “NO” options for the bond issues and judicial retention spots on the ballot.
- Explicitly allow ballot selfies — basically, repeal NMSA 3-8-50 (A)(1).
- Eliminate all forms of public campaign financing. If you really want a form of candidate subsidies in place, let the parties do it themselves. Or set up a domestic non-profit LLC (something like a 501-c-3 under the current federal tax code). Make sure that its charter forbids its officers from lobbying the Roundhouse or any other governmental body, or from accepting any money from the public treasury. While you’re at it, make sure its charter also forbids its officers from making statements on any other issue while representing the organization.
- If you seriously want to give the candidates a hard time about campaign finance, don’t limit how much they can take from any one donor.
- I support electoral fusion — if someone can get nominated by both the LP and GOP, CP, whatever, more power to them.
- Parties should also have the discretion and right to reject prospective candidates based upon their stated principles, bylaws, whatever.
My position on eminent domain is that “just compensation” should be strictly defined as the property owner’s asking price. Otherwise it’s a no-go.
Monetary policy? I’m OK for you accepting whatever medium of exchange you want. If you want to play the currency speculation game, that’s cool, too, just don’t defraud anyone.
Other positions of mine — see here for examples
I think that further codification of the Dallas Accord is in order as a catch-all, something like this —
The Libertarian Party of New Mexico, its officers, its candidates, and its spokespeople, as well its affiliate organizations, their officers, candidates and spokespeople, shall refrain from calling for, endorsing or otherwise supporting any expansion of government at all levels, including but not limited to its expense, its intrusiveness, or its reach and power over the private sector.
FOR FURTHER REFERENCE
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