One Simple Question

Nebraska State Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh, speaking about people who carry guns into the Legislature, said this:

“As much as the Second Amendment is a right, so is the right to live a free and fearless life.”

No matter where you stand on the gun issue, she is right about “the right to live a free and fearless life.”

We have one simple question for the senator and her colleagues in Nebraska, in Michigan and across the nation:

Why are you so willing to deprive registered people of their right to a “free and fearless life”?

Oh, the lazy and uninformed response is, “Well, you committed a sex offense.” The fact of a sex offense has been used for years as a pretext to deny one group of people rights that are clearly recognized for the rest of the population. But all of the pretexts are based on lies: Sex offenders…