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ROMNEY: TO ALL GUN OWNERS!
“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.”
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Romney’s Four Wedge Issues
by Human Events
Posted: 11/21/2007
HUMAN EVENTS EDITOR Jed Babbin (JB
JB: Governor, even in a lot of blue states, there’s an awful lot of gun rights concerns. Well, number one, you’re invited down here to go bird hunting any time the season’s on, but, in all seriousness: do you view the second amendment as vesting an individual right to keep and bear arms? I know the Supreme Court is about to consider the Parker v. District of Columbia case. Aside from the legalities: as you personally look at the Second Amendment, do you think that’s the right of the state or is that the right of the individual gun owner?
ROMNEY: It’s the right of the individual. I believe that our Constitution vests in the citizens of the United States the right to bear arms, to have weapons for their personal protection, for hunting and for any legal and lawful purpose. I’d like to see our gun laws enforced, to see people who use guns in the committing of crimes in jail for a long time, but I believe that individuals have the right to bear arms, and any incursion on that right, I would find in violation of the constitutionfind in violation of the constitution.