Sen. Kathy Marchione, R-Saratoga, said today that a petition to repeal the state’s new gun control law has about 60,000 signatures, Gannett’s Haley Viccaro reports.
Marchione posted the petition on her website Tuesday, the same day Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the measures into law. It had about 31,000 signatures by Wednesday.
“I felt people needed to have opportunity to talk about the bill,” she said on Fred Dicker’s radio show this morning. “I felt it was very important, we talk about transparency and I think there should be some transparency.”
Marchione said people needed more opportunity to discuss the bill, and Gov. Cuomo shouldn’t have eliminated the three-day period due to a message of necessity. She voted against it, among 18 Republicans to vote against it.
She said Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and the Republican conference worked hard on the bill: “There was a lot of negotiation and a lot of hard work put into it,” she said.
“It was the process, myself personally, that I felt needed to be different because this is a very important issue,” Marchione said.
Marchione said she is a strong second-amendment person and believes people have the right to bear arms.
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“One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.”—Constitutional scholar Joseph Story, 1840
“Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.”—John F. Kennedy
When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson.
“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”
Thomas Jefferson,
Gun control isn’t about guns! It’s about control…
“The media is our chief ideological weapon”. Quote by Nikita Khrushchev
Gun bans don’t disarm criminals, gun bans attract them. – Walter Mondale
“A govt who doesn’t trust law abiding citizens to keep and bear arms, itself is unworthy of trust.——James Madison
“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’, because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.”
Thomas Jefferson