Issues Archive - David Marshall for LD7

Issues

2nd Amendment

The 2nd Amendment was part of the Bill of Rights that was added to the Constitution on 15 December 1791. This amendment protects the right of any citizen to “bear arms” – to own weapons such as firearms. This amendment has unfortunately become controversial in recent memory: there are those who desire legislation preventing law-abiding citizens from owning firearms! In 2008, the Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment allows individuals to own guns. As your State Representative, I will always support and defend your right to bear arms and to defend yourself and your family.

First Responders

In 2019 and all 0f 2020, we have witnessed our police, fire and medical heroes subjected to the terrible violence and discrimination. This past year, police officers were killed, injured, and maimed because of the lack of support from their administrators. As your State Representative, I will write legislation that protects our public officials. I will write legislation that actively deters harmful domestic collectives such as BLM and ANTIFA. I will write legislation that would deliver harsher penalties and fines for those who harm First Responders. I will write legislation to defund municipalities that desire to defund our First Responders.

Election Integrity

We have seen enough evidence from the States that there were voter irregularities throughout the 2020 election. We must protect the sanctity of one of our most important institutions. We must restore voter confidence by eliminating corruption, increasing legislative oversight, cleaning voter rolls, and reforming our vote-by-mail system. We must have security systems in place to identify tainted ballots. To simplify the system, perhaps we ought to return the masses to in-person voting with two forms of identification. This would exclude people who need to vote by mail such as active duty service members and college students.

Parental Rights

Schools forcing children to be taught through the lens of Critical Race Theory or other forms of Critical Theory such as Critical Gender Theory are stripping the individuality of their students and replacing it with a a collectivist group identity. Critical Race Theory is a progressive means to label the white race “oppressors” and the black race “oppressed.” It is a method used to divide people based on the color of their skin. The post-Marxist ideology is against parental desires and must not be allowed as a lens through which our educators educate in any school. I support common sense legislation that keeps the parents firmly in charge of what their children are taught in our schools. I support common sense legislation that supports school choice. When it comes to education – parental engagement is not the problem, it is the solution.

Life

David Marshall is a pro-life conservative who supports legislation that defends the lives of the unborn.

Religious Liberty

The First Amendment provides that Congress make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting its free exercise. As your representative, I will encourage and introduce legislation to identify houses of faith as essential organizations – especially in times of any natural or unnatural disasters such as the COVID-19 Pandemic. This would be an extra layer of protection for churches and other religious institutions from over-reaching government officials. It would prevent them from forcing the closure of churches. People depend on their religious house for counseling, comfort, and guidance in difficult times.

Border Security

Ronald Reagan once” stated: “A Nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation,” The current administration encourages the illegal crossing of our borders while neglecting their duty to protect our borders and the citizens of the United States. Their actions are treasonous. The definition for treason is “the crime of betraying one’s country…” I believe we should utilize our national guards to create a tent city jail in the desert where we could arrest, detain, and charge those arrested for illegally crossing our borders. After being tried in our court system and time served, we then escort them back to the border and have them leave our country. We cannot release them to border agents because they have been prohibited by the HHS from returning them to Mexico.