I didn't see a thread for this guy from Indiana. I don't see a lot about 2A issues.
As the mayor of South Bend, Buttigieg is a member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a group that advocates for gun control legislation at the state and federal level. He also supports universal background checks, and opposed allowing guns in schools and so-called “Stand Your Ground” self-defense gun laws.
He says: The principles that will guide my campaign are simple enough to fit on a bumper sticker: freedom, security, and democracy.
Freedom: Health care is freedom. Consumer protection is freedom. Racial justice is freedom. Empowering teachers means freedom. Women’s equality is freedom. Organized labor sows freedom. And take it from Chasten and me, you are certainly not free if a county clerk gets to tell you who you ought to marry based on their political beliefs.
Security: The idea that security and patriotism belong to one political party needs to end now.
I want to make this clear: the greatest nation in the world should have nothing to fear from children fleeing violence. More importantly, children fleeing violence ought to have nothing to fear from the greatest country in the world.
And let's pick our heads up to face what might be the great security issue of our time: climate change and disruption.
Democracy: No issue we care about, from gun safety to immigration, from climate to education to paid family leave, will be handled well unless our democracy is in better shape. It’s hardly a democracy if “Citizens United” means dollars can drown out the will of the people.
And we can’t say it’s much of a democracy when twice in my lifetime, the Electoral College has overruled the American people.
Pete Buttigieg 2020
1It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Franklin D. Roosevelt