I heard Alan Keyes is throwing his hat into the ring for the Presidential Race. He was on Sean Hannity's radio show today. Despite Hannity, I think he came off pretty well. No discussion about guns in particular but the following is from his website. www.alankeyes.com (under "issues") .
It is shocking for me to see a politician openly express their view of the 2A ... and have it be essentially the same as mine.
He may not have a snowball's chance but given the rest of the field, but it looks like he will get my support/cash.
What do you guys think?
Right to keep and bear arms
I am a strong supporter of the 2nd Amendment.
The right to keep and bear arms was included in the Bill of Rights so that when, by a long train of abuses, government evinces a methodical design upon our natural rights, we will have the means to protect and recover those rights.
In fact, if we make the judgment that our rights are being systematically violated, we have not merely the right, but the duty, to resist and overthrow the power responsible. That duty requires that we maintain the material capacity to resist tyranny, if necessary — something that is very difficult to do if the government has all the weapons. A strong case can be made, therefore, that it is a fundamental DUTY of the free citizen to keep and bear arms.
The gun control agenda is based on the view that ordinary citizens cannot be trusted to use the physical power of arms responsibly. But a people that cannot be trusted with guns cannot be trusted with the much more dangerous powers of self-government. The gun control agenda is thus an implicit denial of the human capacity for self-government and is tyrannical in principle
It is shocking for me to see a politician openly express their view of the 2A ... and have it be essentially the same as mine.
He may not have a snowball's chance but given the rest of the field, but it looks like he will get my support/cash.
What do you guys think?