I was surprised to see your endorsement for state Senator Ken Cuccinelli because he “will use the attorney general’s office as a tool to protect Virginians’ constitutional rights.”
Yes, Mr. Cuccinelli is willing and eager to take on this job because he could not control our lives as a state senator. Rather, he is looking to do so from another vantage point.
Let us look at our First Amendment right of free speech. Mr. Cuccinelli tried to stop a student-run health fair at George Mason University because he disagreed with the message.
Mr. Cuccinelli would like to impose his worldview on the rest of us, including blocking women’s access to contraceptives and couples choosing to live together. That seems like government “overreaching”
to me.
As for public safety, Mr. Cuccinelli opposes background checks for sales of guns by unlicensed sellers at gun shows, thereby allowing criminals and those intent to do harm to bypass background
checks.
The role of the attorney general is to enforce the laws (not ignore them if one disagrees with them), preserve public safety (even the Supreme Court under D.C. v Heller recognized the government’s right to
impose reasonable limitations on the Second Amendment) and to protect consumers and families (not block them from filling prescriptions or living as they choose).
LU ANN MACIULLA McNABB
Centreville
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