Tip Jar Please support my work with a small donation. (via Amazon Payments or PayPal) Please. Thanks. Read more 1/26/12: This just came up: I've been invited to participate in a "Meet a Porcupine Writer" gig at the opening reception for the Free State Project's New Hampshire Liberty Forum Thursday Feb. 23, 2012 from 6-7pm. Basically, it's a book signing. I'm hoping this will be manageable; money, you know. My 19 year old vehicle is becoming an issue again. Some visits to my "tip jar" could help resolve those issues. (Note: Any deities wishing to reveal themselves unequivocally and gain a follower may arrange for me to win an adequate lottery prize in time to attend.)

January 25, 2012: New short story in the Net Assets/Bargaining Position universe:

Gun Rights Questionnaire, 2012
Grill the Candidates on Personal Liberty and Rights

It's that time again.

Sort of.

As things stand now, I don't see any candidates for whom I'd wish to vote. At all. That takes some of the impetus out of the need to convince them to tell me why I should vote for them (or against an opponent). But...

I will still collect, collate, and publish any New Hampshire candidates' responses to the GRQ. I just won't bust my ass dragging the answers out of evasive assholes. If a candidate wants my vote – or yours – he, she, or it can come to me.

Alternately, you can involve yourself this year. Do feel free to track down candidates and inveigle and cajole them into responding. If you'll forward me the unedited replies, I'll publish them – unedited – for the edification of voters less disenchanted than myself.

The Gun Rights Questionnaire consists of ten very simple and clear questions. The only thing nasty about them is that they're designed to prevent (or at least reveal) weaselly typical politican evasions.

Gun Rights Questionnaire, 2012

1. Do you believe that the Constitution is the "supreme law of the land" and that the Bill of Rights acknowledges our birthrights?

2. If so, should these rights be proactively protected from infringement by all levels of government, including city, county and state?

3. Please give some examples of gun laws you consider constitutional.

4. Please give some examples of gun laws you consider unconstitutional.

5. Does the right to bear arms include the right for any peaceable citizen to carry them concealed without a permit, as in Vermont?

6. Do you believe that Americans have a right to own, use and carry weapons of military pattern, and will you use the prestige of elected office to publicly promote that right?

7. Do you support or oppose registration of weapons? Why?

8. Do you support or oppose licensing requirements to own or carry firearms? Why?

9. What specific gun laws will you work to get repealed?

10. If elected, will you back your words of support for firearms rights up with consistent actions? How?

You can forward politicians' answers to me at carl=/at/=bussjaeger=/dot/=org, and naturally, candidates themselves can send me their responses (believe it or not, a few did just that in 2010). I'll publish the responses and my grades on my web site. Grades will be standard A-B-C-D-F letter ranks based only on the answers, not voting records or lack thereof. But such records may be mentioned.

I will also note if a candidate specifically declines to answer the GRQ, if I am so informed. That is an automatic F, on the assumption that a candidate who really, really doesn't want you to know where he stands must be pretty freaking bad even by Congress-scum (lack of) standards.

If Gun Owners of New Hampshire wants to see the answers and grades (as they requested, then ignored last time), they can bloody well kiss my muscular buttocks and read the web site like real voters.

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