I want to like Rudy, but his Second Amendment position is a deal-breaker.
And what do you think Hillary's position is on the 2nd amendment?
Rudy also backtracked some on his anti gun stance.
If Rudy was merely neutral on the social issues, then I would not have much of a problem with his candidacy for the nomination.
Rudy seems ready and willing to use whatever lever his has at his disposal to solve a problem, and that seems to threaten some core issues for me at least.
I never cease to be amazed at the absolute inability of some gun owners to think rationally about the issue. It's all emotion.
If Rudy was President it would be no different than today. Rudy is personally a gun control advocate as am I. If you are from the NYC metropolitan area as he and I are, its hard not to be. But his posistion on guns is the same that it should be a state right. States rights! Thats conservative! So unless you lived in a bleeding blue state, your guns won't be affected and if they are, it has nothing to do with the President.
What has President Bush done that has affected gun owners either positively or negatively? Not much because the President in general doesn't really reulate social issues.
The other day I listened to a talk show where the pitch was that that Giuilani's abortion stance was the critical issue. The truth is that people who hold proper moral values won't opt for abortions, and it has always been, just as abortions will always be in demand and provided, ilegally or not. Abortion is a moral dispute. Laws can and will be raised against it, but it is only through right values that it can be battled.
The freedom to protect yourself, your country, your loved ones, and your property through means of bearing arms is about rights. It is only through the passing of laws that rights can be battled. We'd better be careful who *cough* schwarzenegger *cough* we hand power. I'd love to trust Rudy, but the right to bear arms trumps all.
Abortion is not a legal issue. The right to bear arms IS. There is no comparison between the two, and the Second Amendment question is the important thing Republicans AND conservatives (whoever's going to vote to keep the Democrat out of the White House) should weigh.