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Newt Gingrich Calls for Universal Right to Bear Arms at NRA Forum "Friday’s Celebration of American Values Leadership forum featured speeches by Mitt Romney, recent contender Rick Santorum, plus conservative stars like former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. But members of the influential gun lobby today reserved their greatest enthusiasms not for their presumptive nominee Romney, but for Newt Gingrich, a candidate who perseveres to the wonderment of many and the joy of some. .....

The crowd was appreciative of the man who will likely court their votes this fall, but the NRA faithful became far more animated for Gingrich. With his characteristic flourish for sweeping and historical ideas, the former House speaker laid out a guideline for an international gun-rights movement that the NRA’s Cox called “the Gingrich Doctrine.”

“The right to bear arms comes from our creator, not our government,” Gingrich said. The NRA “has been too timid” in promoting its agenda beyond American borders. The Bill of Rights was not written only for Americans, he said. “It is a universal document.”

“A Gingrich presidency will submit to the UN a treaty that extends the right to bear arms as a human right to every person on the planet.” Every world citizen, he said, “deserves the right to defend themselves from those who exploit, imprison, or kill them.” For his latest big idea, Gingrich earned a standing ovation from the crowd of roughly 5,000.

“We don’t need to go across the planet trying to impose American values, but we do need to go across the planet spreading human values,” Gingrich said. “The Second Amendment is a right for all mankind.”......... Full Speech: 2012 NRA Celebration of American Values Leadership Forum - Newt Gingrich

National Rifle Association Meeting - Part 1 Newt Gingrich Speech 1:00:18 (follows Mitt Romney – Rick Santorum follows Newt)

National Rifle Association Meeting - Part 2 3:09:30 Rick Perry’s Speech

Newt Gingrich of Georgia and Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald throw mock tea crates into the Chattahoochee River in Roswell, Ga., in 1994.

[txrangerette]

“The right to keep and bear arms comes from our creator, not our government.”

-Newt-

They’ve been on every thread about this speech posted so far, moaning that he’s saying the right comes from the United Nations.

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Pssst...you should have voted for Newt.... you know who you are.

[onyx]

Newt.org + Keep Praying! GO NEWT!
Bookmarked!

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The Bill of Rights was not written only for Americans, he said. “It is a universal document.”

Sweet! It's refreshing for someone to think that our values are superior to the rest of the world, rather than the other way around.

Still praying for a Newt miracle!

[exit82]

Once again NEwt frames the real issue—the right to keep and bear arms as a universal right to resist tyranny, not just an American right.

Liberal heads exploded across the world, not just across America.

How many standing ovations did Romney get while he was lying his rear end off during his speech? I hear gun rights flourished when he was Governor of MA. /s

[exit82]

Once again NEwt frames the real issue—the right to keep and bear arms as a universal right to resist tyranny, not just an American right.

Liberal heads exploded across the world, not just across America.

How many standing ovations did Romney get while he was lying his rear end off during his speech? I hear gun rights flourished when he was Governor of MA. /s

[b9]

Pure NEWT

Right to bear arms is a universal HUMAN RIGHT.

NEWT on fire !!!

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