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Of the five major party Presidential candidates that remain in the 2016 race, the one who I am supporting is Ted Cruz. This is primarily due to the fact that I agree with him on a higher percentage of issues than I do with all of the other candidates. I estimate that I agree with Ted Cruz on approximately 85 percent of issues. Since there are so many contemporary political issues, I will limit my scope in this paper to just two of them.
The first issue that I will discuss which underscores my support for Ted Cruz´s Presidential bid is his opposition to legal abortion in most cases (except when it is necessary to save the life of the mother). I support Ted Cruz´s position on abortion because I likewise believe that abortion should be illegal in most cases due to my strong conviction that life begins at conception and that protecting innocent human life at all phases of its development is a legitimate function of the government. Ted Cruz has promised to appoint Supreme Court Justices who will vote to overturn its previous 7-2 decision in the 1973 Roe vs Wade case which legalized abortion nationwide. Like Ted Cruz I believe that Roe vs Wade was wrongly decided. It should be noted that there are even legal scholars who hold a pro-choice position on abortion who agree with Senator Cruz and myself that Roe vs Wade was wrongly decided and that it should be reversed. Ted Cruz and I share a strict constructionist and originalist view of the U.S. constitution and therefore we both believe that interpreting the constitution should be based solely on what it explicitly states. Hence, we both reject the notion of the constitution conveying implicit rights. There is no mention of abortion in the U.S. constitution. And there is also no explicit mention of the right to privacy in the constitution. Therefore the logic on which the majority 7-2 decision in the 1973 Roe vs Wade case was based is wholeheartedly faulty from the viewpoint of constitutional originalists such as Ted Cruz and myself. Thus Ted Cruz´s strong pro-life stance as well as his vow to appoint conservative jurists to the Supreme Court who will vote to overturn the wrongly decided Roe vs Wade case constitute a significant reason underlying my support for Ted Cruz´s 2016 Presidential bid at this point.
Another important reason which sways my decision to support Ted Cruz is his strong support for the second amendment and his concomitant opposition to gun control. Specifically, he supports the right of individuals to carry concealed guns in public to protect themselves. I concur with Ted Cruz´s position on his support for gun rights in general as well as his specific support for allowing individuals to carry concealed guns in public. The reason why I believe that people should be allowed to carry concealed guns outside of
their homes is because I believe that the public-at-large will be safer when criminals know that their potential victims might be armed and that they have no way of knowing which of their potential targets are armed and which are not. Such theoretical underpinnings are substantiated by the empirical evidence. First, states that prohibit its residents from carrying concealed guns in public have violent crime rates that are 11% above the national average (¨GUN FACTS¨). Also, according to an analysis of the data during the time span of 1980-2009, the gun homicide rate was actually 10% higher than the national average in states with stringent concealed carry statutes (¨GUN FACTS¨). When one looks specifically at Florida, its homicide rate decreased from 36% higher than the nationwide rate to 4% lower than the nationwide rate during the year after it passed its concealed carry law in 1988 (¨GUN FACTS¨). And finally, in the year subsequent to Texas passing its right-to-carry law, its homicide rate decreased by a rate that was 50% greater than the nationwide rate. Furthermore, by the second year after the law was passed in Texas its assault rate was reduced by a rate that was 250% greater than the drop in the national average and its incidences of rape decreased at a rate that was 500% greater than the drop in the nationwide average (¨GUN FACTS¨). All of the facts underscore both my and Ted Cruz´s support for right-to-carry concealed gun laws as a rational means of reducing violent crime.
¨GUN FACTS.¨ gunfacts.info. GUNFACTS, n.d. Web. 4 April 2016