Hi,
I was just checking out your website and notice that although you list the Republican Party as opposing Proposition H, you do not list the Libertarian Party. I hope you will correct this oversight. It's important that San Franciscans understand that this is not just a right-wing effort. Feel free to quote from our official resolution below or reprint in its entirety. I look forward to seeing you at your event at the Pan Pacific Hotel this Sunday.
Yours in liberty,
<<< Starchild >>>
Outreach Director, Libertarian Party of San Francisco
Reaffirming Firearms Rights (NO on H)
The following resolution against Measure H was adopted by the
LPSF at our August meeting, and is reprinted here from our
August newsletter:
WHEREAS the right to defend oneself is a natural human
right; and
WHEREAS handguns are one of the most effective tools for
this purpose; and
WHEREAS the City and County of San Francisco has placed
on the November 2005 ballot a Тgun banУ measure that would
prohibit handgun possesion by residents, and would require surrender
of all handguns possessed by residents within its corporate
boundary, and would ban the sale or transfer of ALL firearms
and ammunition, with only minor exceptions such as for nonresidents,
certain law enforcement officials, and other government
employees; and
WHEREAS under this measure the former owners of handguns
so confiscated would not be granted any compensation, and
WHEREAS the measure would effectively put out of business
an ongoing firearms retailer within the city limits, thus destoying
the owner's equity in the business as well as the ownerХs and
employees' livelihoods, also without compensation;
BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED THAT the Libertarian
Party of San Francisco reaffirms the right of San Francisco residents
to possess handguns, whether for self-defense or sport or
any other moral purpose, such as they see fit;
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the Libertarian Party
of San Francisco reaffrms the right of individuals and the businesses
they create to participate in a free and open market in
firearms and ammunition; and the right to own and operate or
to be employed in firearms related businesses, without them being
arbitrarily and capriciously shut down;
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the Libertarian Party
of San Francisco considers confiscation of legally obtained private
property, namely handguns, to be an improper function of
government, whose role should instead be to protect private property;
and that this impropriety is compounded by not granting
just compensation to the former handgun owners; and finally
BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED THAT the Libertarian
Party of San Francisco wishes it to be known far and wide that,
for these and other reasons, it opposes the ballot measure "Prohibiting
firearms distribution and limiting handgun possession"
that is slated to appear on the ballot in San Francisco in November,
2005.