BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 11 months ago
Views from Ohio:
“If I have a gun and I shoot somebody, I should have to describe why I did that,” Kasich said in an interview.
He also expressed frustration that Ohio’s GOP-controlled Legislature would not pass a “red flag” law to allow relatives or police to ask a court to remove temporarily any guns from a person they fear might be a threat to themselves or others.
“There’s no ‘red flag’ law,” Kasich said. “I pleaded with them to put the ‘red flag’ law in there. They didn’t do it.”
Let me say in the clearest language possible: No, Kasich, a person is not required to testify against himself. That’s a protection we’re guaranteed in the Fifth Amendment to the constitution.
That may be uncomfortable to you, but I don’t care because it’s a right of all citizens. One very important reason for it is that it’s based on Biblical law, which requires two or more witnesses, independent of the accused, to convict a man for a crime. Coercion is unbiblical and immoral.
As for your red flag law, that’s an equally unconstitutional and immoral infringement upon the rights guaranteed under the constitution.
