Originally, he made comments that what's appropriate in one place may not be in another, so, banning certain types of guns in rural areas may not be right, but it might be right in the inner city.
However, just a couple of weeks ago, he wrote an opinion piece in the Washington Times recognizing the Second Amendment right as fundamental and necessary to liberty, citing the defense of the country through force of privately-owned and maintained arms against an oppressive government as the ultimate defense of the people against tyranny.
I suspect that the Kenyan anti-Christ’s worsening persecution of political opponents is opening his eyes, especially the Bundy ranch thing. I think he's learning.
My own view is that we could do far worse than Ben Carson.
But I am a little prejudiced, as my son was treated at Johns Hopkins by one of his proteges.
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Thanks for stepping in to clarify.
Isn’t it interesting that both Carson and West are launching trial balloons today?
Of those two, I would go with West, based on his military background. We are sorely in need of making that requisite for high office once again.
So long as he . . .
1. demonstrates that he has indeed “come around” on the 2nd Amendment,
2. expresses a convincing commitment to closing the border and agressive deportation as an absolute necessity before even considering a word of discussion about potential “pathways” for as yet undeported illegals
. . . I would be thrilled to support him.
As much as I love Ted Cruz, Carson was born here in the US and is not already mired in connections to the DC beltway cesspool of lobbyists and cocktail parties.
He has personally risen above the dysfunction of the impoverished urban core. He’s not merely a brain surgeon, but a thoroughly accomplished leader with a distinguished career among the world’s brightest brain surgeons. He professes and appears to live out a deep devotion to Christianity. He speaks with honesty and simplicity and seems unencumbered by political calculus. Like Herman Cain he is a capitalist who is unafraid to express specific, understandable ideas to make things better; yet, to me, it seems very likely that he has none of Cain’s apparent history of indiscretions.
I still have a lot to learn about him, but given the Canadian caveat, my hunch is that Ben Carson is the best in the field currently taking shape. He reminds me of Fred Thompson in 2008 in terms of how unfettered I think I could I be in trusting him to lead this country.
I have known of his legend for years, but my interest in his future was violently jolted to life when I watched his full prayer breakfast address. He walked into the den of the enemy and spoke momentous words of irresistible clarity and leadership, courageously yet artlessly. He did not apologize, and though scoured by an IRS audit in return, he has not stooped to whine. When he realized his presence at Johns Hopkins had the potential to foment political drama, in what I think was a display of considerable class and dignity, he calmly, nobly retired.
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Besides all that I find I can watch with glee all day long the clip of him asking Roland Martin why the NAACP isn’t just renamed to the NAACProgressiveP already? MM mm, I never tire of that little clip! *guilty giggle*