Gary Johnson on guns

[fj1200]

Ignore the subject?

So innocent until proven guilty is no longer a good thing? Pirro and Lynch & Johnson; interesting bedfellows.

I haven't ignored anything. And it seems you've mischaracterized Johnson.

“Gov. Johnson believes Second Amendment rights are too fundamental to be denied without due process, and being put on a list arbitrarily by the government is certainly not due process,” Johnson campaign communications director Joe Hunter told The Daily Caller in a statement Wednesday.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/15/ga...#ixzz4D5Kjqe8W

[jimnyc]

I haven't ignored anything. And it seems you've mischaracterized Johnson.

Nope. I said he was for regulating guns against the mentally ill. He's all for the government deciding which person it deems unfit to own a gun.

Johnson has stated he is open for debate on the subject of gun control and is open to a discussion on preventing those the government deems mentally ill from possessing weapons.

Listening to him in the debate, I don't hear a whole lot about due process.

[fj1200]

Nope. I said he was for regulating guns against the mentally ill. He's all for the government deciding which person it deems unfit to own a gun.

Listening to him in the debate, I don't hear a whole lot about due process.

You equated him to Pirro and Lynch, he differs. This also appears to differ from your statement:

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But the 2016 Libertarian race occurred in the shadow of shootings in Newtown, Conn., Charleston, S.C., and other shootings that led to questions about how mentally disturbed people got their hands on powerful weapons. In interviews, Johnson said that, ideally, mentally ill people who intended to cause harm to themselves or others should not obtain guns. And in a Fox Business-hosted debate, Johnson’s rival Austin Petersen suggested he was building a slippery slope by suggesting there was any circumstance where people could be denied Second Amendment Rights.
“I find it difficult to be able to come up with a piece of legislation that would address that,” Johnson admitted of the mental health issue.
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On May 29, when Johnson and Weld secured their nominations, they had effectively pledged not to deviate from the Libertarian Party’s platform on gun rights. Approved that weekend, it read: “We oppose all laws at any level of government restricting, registering, or monitoring the ownership, manufacture, or transfer of firearms or ammunition.”
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...o-conclusions/

Unless you have a more relevant quote.

I admit I'm not up on all the due process requirements of declaring someone mentally ill.