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Being from a Red state and also being pro2A, I am considering the possible options for my vote in the 2008 presidential elections. Mitt Romney appears to have a very good shot. (See the wikipedia entry for Mitt, Run Mitt Run, and Evangelicals for Mitt web sites.)

My biggest concern is this quote from the Wikipedia website under “Other Issues\Gun Control:”

According to his 2002 gubernatorial campaign, Romney “is a supporter of the federal assault weapons ban. Mitt also believes in the rights of those who hunt to responsibly own and use firearms.”[94] July 1st, 2002 Mitt Romney signed a permanent ban on Assault Weapons. “Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts,” Romney said, at a bill signing ceremony with legislators, sportsmen’s groups and gun safety advocates. “These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people.”

Now, I could assume that he said those things to just get elected in Massachusetts, but he is not a liar. I can only assume that he must have meant it. Therefore, anyone wanting to infringe on my right to bear arms deserves some scrutiny.

I don’t like it when people imply the only good use for firearms is hunting. Personal/family defense and recreation are valid reasons to own firearms. Also, deep inside that quote is a falsehood. He fell prey to the anti-2A’s buzzword “assault weapon.” There is no such thing. The term is mearly a political device meant to demonize law abiding gun owners. You can’t really know what fun-at-the-range is until you’ve fired a fully automatic firearm; therefore, I do think they are made for recreation.

Also, I reserve the right to have an automatic weapon in case an attacker has an automatic weapon.; therefore, I do think they are made for self defense.

The person who I really wish would run is Condoleeza Rice, a known pro2A political figure. She understands the value of having a firearm for personal defense.

With the bombings came marauding groups of armed white vigilantes called “nightriders” who drove through black neighbourhoods shooting and starting fires. John Rice and his neighbours guarded the streets at night with shotguns.

The memory of her father out on patrol lies behind Rice’s opposition to gun control today. Had those guns been registered, she argues, Bull Connor would have had a legal right to take them away, thereby removing one of the black community’s only means of defence. “I have a sort of pure second amendment view of the right to bear arms,” she said in 2001.
(Source: The Times which is British so they spell differently than Americans.)