Craig Fletcher gets high marks …

when it comes to his position on 2nd Amendment rights.

It certainly seems as though everyone is jumping on the Second Amendment rights bandwagon these days, mainly because it is politically expediently to do so. All rhetoric aside, a closer look at the facts can be very revealing.

A division of the National Rifle Association (NRA), an organization that, in election years, closely monitors and keeps track of gun issues, what the candidates and incumbents positions are, and how the incumbents voted on record concerning gun issues and Second Amendment rights legislation shows candidate Craig Fletcher of the 5th Assembly District is at the head of the class.

Fletcher is the only candidate running for the 5th Assembly District seat to earn an AQ rating from the NRA’s Political Victory Fund, the highest a new candidate can garner. An AQ rating means exactly this: “A pro-gun candidate whose rating is based solely on the candidate’s responses to the NRA-PVF Candidate Questionnaire and who does not have a voting record on Second Amendment issues.”

The grading system ranges from A+ to F. The A’s only being awarded to those who have official state voting records. A “?” is awarded to those who, through indifference, disagreement, or hostility failed to respond to the group’s questionnaire.

For those interested in checking out any candidate running for each of the state offices can go online at http://www.nrapvf.org/ELECTIONS/State.aspx?y=2010&State=WI. (Source: Fletcher for Wisconsin)

If you live in the 5th Assembly District this is important information to know as the September 14 primary approaches.

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2nd amendment rights upheld

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While it should have been 9-0, it was a victory none-the-less for freedom.

The United States Supreme Court issued a 5-4 ruling Monday that the Second Amendment does, in fact, mean what it says — even in Chicago — and guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms. The case at hand was McDonald v. City of Chicago, in which the plaintiff sought to overturn Chicago’s blanket ban on handguns.

The Amendment reads, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” The Chicago ban clearly infringed on that right. (Source: Patriot Post)

And “We the People” are safer.

“In the ‘living Constitution‘ era, the Supreme Court rediscovers original intent and rightly rules that the right to bear arms applies to all Americans just as the rest of the Bill of Rights does. It’s hard to conceive how the justices could have decided otherwise. But by the narrowest of margins — 5-4 — they have reaffirmed that keeping and bearing arms is an inalienable and individual right like speech and religion, and that it applies to all individuals as the Founding Fathers intended. Why anyone thinks the Second Amendment does not apply to all Americans is a mystery to us. Governments have powers; individuals have rights. The Bill of Rights was an enumeration of those individual rights — from freedom of speech to freedom of religion to the right to bear arms — that are to be protected from the intrusion of an oppressive government. Now the Supreme Court agrees. … Both the Constitution and ‘we the people’ are safer today.”(Source: Investor’s Business Daily via Patriot Post)

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Right to bear arms

Quotes from the Founding Fathers on a basic right of American citizens.