Mark Small

5) FREE MARKET IS A PANACEA: We have had free market economies in our history. They result in monopolies and oligopolies. There is a balance that must be maintained and going to either extreme does not cut it. 36/40

6) tRUMP: This “town hall” is beng held without an audience because of the coronavirus, COVID-19. The current occupant of the Oval Office has demonstrated his ineptitude as a leader in the face of this pandemic. 37/40

A legitimate fear: the elections will not occur in November & the would-be dictator takes full control. That is the const’l crisis we face. GOP has to be taken back from the majority that jacked it a few years ago. 38/40

Mark, best wishes in bringing your progressive Republican views to the stage tonight. I count 12 of your 13 competitors as being Trumpy/Trumpy-lite, as they appear obsessed w/guns & stopping women from having control of their bodies. Your approach to Republicanism is welcome.

Thanks! I'll give it my best. btw - I did not address guns. Didn't have time to get that in. Only recently has 2nd Amend been interpret'd to prevent controls on firearms. We need background checks, ban assault weapons (unless deer become armed) & ban clips w/> 4 rounds.

The 2nd Amendment is not about hunting. Self defense is a natural right. The government has no authority to tell me how to defend myself. We have background checks now. It's a magazine, not a clip, and arbitrary limits on ammo per magazine are nothing but feel-good legislation.

2nd Amendment was about militias. Guns do not arise out of nature. There have been limits on weapons going back to ancient Greece - and even Tombstone AZ & Dodge City KS. Limits on clips - i'll use terms I choose - mean something to ppl being mowed down.

In Federalist 29, Hamilton said an army would not be a threat to liberty as long "there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline or the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and the rights of their fellow citizens." 1/