Brian Fitzpatrick does not trust people. Coming from Law Enforcement that attitude is defensible but wrong. People must be trusted before Fitzpatrick can trust people to own one or more guns. He does not. He can change his mind but he will have to educate himself on Liberty first.
Fitzpatrick therefore is in opposition to the Constitutions of America and Pennsylvania which validate the natural, moral right to own a gun.
The basis of gun prohibitions is the lack of trust in people. Laws must be made to stop criminal behaviors. Even more important laws must provide people with safety and there’s no safety without the ability to stop wrong behavior. Unless an individual can exert overwhelming force against those who would invade the personal space of another, the individual must be armed. That’s the essence of the Constitutional Prohibition against laws that restrict the abilty of the individula to keep and bear arms.
The correct position of lawmakers is the support of the individual. Less important but certainly very important is support for the ability of an individual to defend and protect oneself. A father cannot protect his wife and children without a gun. Knives can help but it’s best for a father to have a gun to protect himself, his family and his friends. Fitzpatrick either doesn not grasp that or he disagrees with it. Either way he must be reomved from office. It would be best if he resigns. America would be better off with no congressman than one who does not support the ability to buy, own, keep and use a gun.
CONGRESS MAY NOT EXERCISE PRIOR RESTRAINT. Approving the right to buy a gun by requiring the prior approval of the character of an individual by the government is a very dangerous prior restraint and is absloutely forbidden to government. No free government would want such power.
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