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Politics : HOWARD DEAN -THE NEXT PRESIDENT? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Eashoa' M'sheekha who wrote (402)	11/15/2003 8:00:05 AM
From: Doo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3079

You can't really be a hopeful anti-gunowner in this state, where the state constitution carries an absolute right to bear arms: "That the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the State - and as standing armies in time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up; and that the military should be kept under strict subordination to and governed by the civil power." I'm quite certain there's a case on the books up here saying the right is absolute and has nothing to do with "standing militias", but the language is quite clear, nonetheless. Of course, that doesn't say much about Dean's NRA support, I don't think. It was likely borne of pandering to rural Vermonters who largely vote Republican. But, I disagree that he couldn't hold sufficient electoral support if he were stronger on gun control. And, it doesn't explain how he could be in favor of the death penalty when this state has not had such a law for decades (if ever, perhaps) and certainly never has executed a convict. It also doesn't really speak to Dean's apparent idealogical litmus test for appointing judges over his tenure as Governor, a list of folks that were largely prosecutors. And, no one up here ever really understood how he could oppose methadone treatment clinics in the face of a growing heroin problem.