Joins Filippi
and Price in opposition to sensible gun control
By
Will Collette
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| Machine-gun Morgan stands alone fighting sensible gun laws |
Last
week, the Rhode Island Senate showed rare courage by bucking the gun lobby to
approve companion bills to House legislation banning “bump stocks” and allowing
the courts to take away the guns of dangerous individuals.
The
Senate vote was 33 to 1. The one “NO” vote was cast by Republican wingnut Sen.
Elaine Morgan who represents the northern half of Charlestown.
She
joins her fellow local Republican village idiots Reps. Blake Filippi and Justin
Price who cast NO votes against the same legislation in the House.
The
legislation goes on to the Governor who is sure to sign them into law after a
final, pro forma vote in the House.
Morgan
said she voted NO because "I see it violating our constitutional rights…I want to keep
our kids safe, that's definitely what we need to do. But I don't see anything
in this bill to keep our kids safe."
So,
to be clear, Morgan believes no children are protected by banning devices that
prevent conversion of semi-automatic weapons into fully automatic machine guns,
like the kind used in the Las Vegas massacre.
Morgan
believes no children are protected when a court, upon hearing credible
evidence, takes away the guns of a person who poses a threat to others.
Morgan
says that instead, this is “violating our constitutional rights.”
The
Court has also approved laws that prohibit gun ownership by those considered
unfit to own them such as 1980’s Lewis v. United States decision that felons did not have the right to bear arms.
I
doubt Morgan has a clue about these court decisions because they don’t fit her
pre-packaged, bite-sized right-wing views.
Morgan’s relatively short political
career has been largely one of hopping from one ignorant, uninformed position
to another. She has embarrassed Rhode Island and her own constituent towns in
the process.
Here’s
to November 6 when we hopefully get to change that.