Posted on 11/20/2004 6:52:50 PM PST by KoRn
Saturday, Nov. 20, 2004 9:36 p.m. EST
Condi: Why I Support the Second Amendment
Secretary of State nominee Dr. Condoleezza Rice is a big supporter of the second amendment, a commitment cultivated during her days growing up in Bull Conner's Birmingham, Alabama, when the shotgun wielded by her father was often the only thing that stood between her family and the Ku Klux Klan.
In 1963, racial violence was "turning her hometown into 'Bombingham' as Alabama’s governor George Wallace fought a federal court order to integrate the city’s schools," writes Rice biographer Antonia Felix.
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In excerpts of her book "The Condoleezza Rice Story," reprinted in the London Sunday Times, Felix recounts:
"With the bombings came marauding groups of armed white vigilantes called 'nightriders,' who drove through black neighborhoods shooting and starting fires. [Condi's father] John Rice and his neighbors 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 defense."
"I have a sort of pure second amendment view of the right to bear arms," said the future Secretary of State.
Cool. She is a true class act.
She's the real deal.
And this, gentle reader, is why the Second Amendment -- contrary to what the Democrats claim -- is NOT about hunting.
Gun control isn't about guns. It's about control.
Word! Condi is the real thing.
Very true! It isn't about killing Canadian Geese it's the 'Teeth of Liberty'.
Sounds good so far.
Rice / Santorum would be an awesome ticket. I can think of a few others too!
CONDI IN 2008!
Please, please, please, ma'am, run for president, and hordes of us would walk twenty miles bareoot over broken glass to pull the lever....
Unfortunately, the main purpose of the second amendment is to allow us to protect ourselves from Americans.
Indeed. She's seriously pro-2A. Gotta love it.
If the Second Amendment is limited to hunting, then the First Amendment is limited to publishing baseball scores.
"The Teeth of Liberty" used to describe the Second Amendment. You win the Writing Award for this post, KoRn. Congratulations.
You wrote:
Gun control isn't about guns. It's about control.
You are exactly right and our new Secretary of State understands that completely!! She suffered enormously as a child.
Gun control: a tight cluster at 800 feet 3 seconds from the command to draw.
I think the best argument for the second amendment is it makes it harder for organized crime to prosper. When mafiosos are paying off the cops who is going to protect the shop owner from the protection racket? Individual citizens owning guns makes it much harder for mobster to operate. Anti-gun people have a hard time countering this argument because it's plainly obvious that organized crime has no problem obtaining guns.
Wow. I'm in love.
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