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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.
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It's hard to say what she thinks about these issues. I'd like to think she's tougher than her president, but I doubt that she will take any steps that go beyond his will. Here's an interesting Condoleeza quote:
RICE: You cannot support illegal immigration. George W. Bush has also said that you have to understand that family values don't stop at the Rio Grande and, assuming there are no acceptable choices, people are going to come and make themselves better.I'll say it: this is too little, too late. Elsewhere she says things like:
TIE: So if NAFTA is a success, we will have fewer immigrants here.
RICE: That's right, and we'll have a good trading partner. -- Rice Talk - interview with Condoleeza Rice, primary foreign policy advisor to George W. Bush - Interview
“I think that these are decent people,” said national security adviser Condoleeza Rice in describing Hispanics in this country illegally. “They are people who are just trying to work and make life better for their family. We can deal with the border issue. ” -- Still Pushing for Reform Proposed guest-worker plan prompts dissension within GOP ranks. By Tim ChávezI don't disagree with the above statement, but it ignores the corrolary: decent people who don't belong here are still hurting us. They're taking jobs away from our lower and middle classes, they're burdening our overpriced social safety nets, and they are shifting our culture toward Hispanic instead of Anglo-Saxon. Why would we want to abandon our lower class citizens and scrap our English language? Why would we want to foot the bill for billions of dollars in state and federal safety net services that we had no ability to forecast? Why would we leave open a border to a nation which is entertaining trade with Iran, and has its own "southern border security" problems?
Republicans are still afraid to say and do things that the far left may interpret in a politically incorrect manner. That's the fundamental problem with our country, though.
This problem starts at the top of the party and works its way downward. The party needs to wake up and smell the coffee. Average Joes and Janes across our country are asking why the Democrats and the Republicans don't seem to care about the things that matter most to them. Meanwhile we have unconstitutional flag desecration initiatives and faith-based initiatives that fund mosques. An Imam gave a consecration at the RNC convention, and the First Nephew gave a whole speech in Spanish. Where is the party's resolve? Why does it bog itself down in contentious issues while our borders are overrun?
The party needs to prioiritize. I see it foundering on its personal pet problems, often working backward from the real issues that trigger the symptoms the RNC tries in vain to fight. Want stronger, more enthusiastic families? Protect America's future and assure young people everywhere across the land that their physical and economic security is rock solid. Then you'll have large, happy families as far as the eye can see. Ignore those problems, and you'll have nothing but death and dismay. Look at the root of the problem, not just the symptoms! Illegal and excessive immigration is central to the issue of native-born Americans questioning their future.
We need stronger leadership on this issue than, "family values don't stop at the border." It's long overdue!
The only report I see is every month in the American Rifleman magazine from the National Rifle Association.
It has happened three times in my life. I dropped my girlfriend off in Arvada, Colorado about 2:00 am and was cutting across Northeast Denver to return home to Aurora. Two men tried several times to run me off of the road. They left in a hurry when they saw my Ruger 44 magnum.
Another time, a neighbor saw two guys trying to steal my car parked in front of our apartment. He went out with a gun and they left quickly.
One winter night when I was away from home, a guy was trying to break in the door to our garden level apartment in Aurora. My wife called the police to report it and then yelled to the guy that she had a gun and was going to shoot. When the police arrived, they found him laying on the ground with a compound fracture in his leg. He had slipped on the ice trying to run away. He told the police that some woman with a gun tried to attack him. My wife asked the police officer what she should have done if he hadn't stopped. The officer said, "When he comes in, shoot him and keep shooting until the gun is empty. Then throw the gun at him. That way there is no question about you being in fear of your life."
BTTT
Isn't it amazing that first-hand experience with tyranny makes you see what the 2nd Amendment was made for?
She makes me proud!
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My sentiments precisely.
Now if only my Jewish friends on the left would come to the same conclusion, their use of the term "Never Again" would have more credibility.
OMG. What a great story. Must be nice to have a PD that understands.
When these guys hopped my fence at 3 AM, I grabbed the PDW and ran outside (I rebarreled a m1 carbine, pistol gripstock and a 15 rd mag of roll-yer-own soft-points). Obviously, they exited in a hurry. I've known nobody else here (Hawaii) who has ever done this, though I have seen several stories posted on the High Road boards. When I asked the officers (always call, of course), they told me that if I had shot them, they'd probably have to arrest me. Paradise, my a$$.
BTW, I get America's First Freedom, and the first thing I usually look at is the "Armed Citizen".
It's no wonder the Libs are frothing at the mouth in rage at her appointment to SOS. They fear her.
I have known and worked with many police officers in my life. A couple are my best friends. It is rarely the cop on the street you have to worry about. I have yet to find one that isn’t pro Second Amendment. It is the Chief of Police, District Attorney, and politicians that you have to worry about. They set the agendas and procedures the street cops have to follow. Every police officer I have talked to on the subject says they do their best but they can’t protect you 24/7, so you have to be prepared to protect yourself. Call 911 and Pizza Hut and see who gets there first.
Hey. I didn't mean to imply that the officers here are anti 2nd ammendement, though many are. But, without trying to draw too much of a generalization, many of them draw a distinction between RKBA and shooting someone in defense. I think it's important to point out that we, not only have to register all firearms and have a 14 day wait, but in many of the mandatory 'judicious use' classes, it's stressed that even maiming in defense is grounds for prosecution. The instructors do, however, point out that alive and in jail is better than dead; to which I totally agree. And i know some PO's, though by no means many and I'd guess that it's split fairly down the middle re: the 2nd.
Fortunately, as in my case and as I understand in majority of cases, it never actually gets to that point and merely brandishing (and a few choice words at full volume) is more than enough incentive for perps to evaporate.
While the right to bear a shotgun is essential to protect oneself from kkk terrorists, the second ammendment is about protecting US citizens from government terrorists. Like Janet Reno, for example. Did Dr. Rice mention the original intent of the founders?
Condi is great for 2008!
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