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Opinion: SLC judge candidate fighting for Second Amendment rights

Posted 10/22/20

To the Editor: In response to “ Choose Experience, Ability Over Political Affiliation ”: The writer asked me the same questions I had previously asked my opponent, even though my opponent never …

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Opinion: SLC judge candidate fighting for Second Amendment rights

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To the Editor: In response to “Choose Experience, Ability Over Political Affiliation”: The writer asked me the same questions I had previously asked my opponent, even though my opponent never actually answered those questions.

Unlike my opponent I am happy to answer them. I own plenty of guns for different purposes. I have multiple shotguns, a 12-gauge, a double barreled 20-gauge, an old .410, a couple 22’s, my 30-06 hunting rifle, and two compound bows. I have owned guns and hunted since I was a teenager. I took my hunters safety course many years ago, when I was either fifteen or sixteen.

I got my pistol permit in 2006 while I worked as a lawyer in Peoria Illinois. Peoria is a dangerous City that is much like a smaller version of Chicago. I became accustomed to having a pistol, so after moving back home I decided to get my NY pistol permit. While filling out the application packet I learned that the judge would not give out unrestricted conceal and carry pistol permits.

I am very practical, I already had a 12-gauge for home defense and there is not much use for a pistol that you cannot carry, so I threw my application packet in the garbage.

Last winter I heard that same judge was retiring so I obtained another application and filled it out. I then learned his protégé would be staying on as court attorney, and that she was planning to run for judge. For the second time in the last 13 years I threw my pistol permit application into the garbage in disgust.

That is when I decided that I was going to help a Republican pro Second Amendment Attorney run for county court judge. There are not many of us and I could not find anyone else who was willing to take on this fight.

I have been a lawyer in this state for over 13 years and I have been a litigator that entire time. I have won hundreds of trials and hearings. Many of those victories resulted in children being protected and kept safe. How many trials has my opponent ever won?

Tedra Cobb and my opponent both claim they are not against the Second Amendment, despite their respective past. It is not surprising that when driving around this county you often see my opponent’s lawn sign next to Tedra Cobb’s lawn sign.

Greg Storie

St. Lawrence County court judge candidate