Mark Small

The Fed supposedly “overreaches” through that bastion of usurpation of rights, the EPA. However: (1) States did not do a great job of keeping our air and waters clean - see “Lake Erie catches fire”;... 11/25

(2) Nurse Beth should be careful: EPA was a (proud) legacy of a GOP President, Richard Nixon; and (3) Amend XIV, sec 1 requires equal protection of the law and Art. I sec 8 cl 3 gives Congress the power to regulate commerce. 12/25

The Constitution does not require we “protect” it from an agency created under a GOP Prez. As a half-way measure, maybe we could require CEOs of corporations that pollute to live within one mile downstream and downwind from their operations. 13/25

Nurse Beth promises to “protect the Second Amendment.” Nearly 40,000, people die each year from guns. In 2017 approximately sixty percent (60%) of gun deaths were suicides (23,854). 14/25

I think we need protection from people with a warped interpretation of the Second Amendment. 15/25

A GOP-nominated (and confirmed) Chief Justice Warren Burger did not view the Second Amendment as conferring a right to individuals to own guns. He was quoted in a 2002 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Judicial Circuit... 16/25

“one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word `fraud,' on the American public by special interest groups that I've ever seen in my lifetime. The real purpose of the Second Amendment was to ensure ... 17/25

that state armies the militia would be maintained 4 defense of the state Very language of 2nd Amendment refutes any argument it was intended 2 guarantee every citizen unfettered rt 2 any kind of weapon he/she desires Silvera v. Lockyer, 312 F.3d 1052, 1063 (9th Cir. 2002). 18/25