Pro-Gun Pesidential Candidates????

[Shihan]

Im a political IDIOT, what is your folks takes on who is Pro and who is not for the front runners?

[Heavy Metal]

Fred Thompson, as soon as he announces in a few weeks.

[RJG]

The GOA has a round-up on the candidates.

http://gunowners.org/pres08/

[rhino]

Ron Paul is the only presidential candidate that I trust to be as pro-RKBA as I am. No one else is even close. Unfortunately, I think his chances of winning the (R) nomination much less the general election are, uh, slim.

He's probably the most pro-RKBA candidate from one of the two electable parties since Barry Goldwater.

[FlyAndFight]

Thanks for that link, RJG.

[Submariner]

Ron Paul is the only presidential candidate that I trust to be as pro-RKBA as I am. No one else is even close. Unfortunately, I think his chances of winning the (R) nomination much less the general election are, uh, slim.

He's probably the most pro-RKBA candidate from one of the two electable parties since Barry Goldwater.

And Dr. Paul is having a tough time even getting put on media polls. I voted for him in 1980. Reagan won but we still got Bush and his Skull & Bones buddies.

[rhino]

It's unfortunate when the best man for the job is ignored by the people who make and break candidates.

I disagree with Dr. Paul on his position on the war in Iraq, but as far as RKBA and most other things, we're on the exact same page. I hope he at least seeks re-election in his congressional district in Texas while he's doing all of this presidential stuff, because the entire country can't afford to lose him like we lost Bob Barr from Georgia and John Hostettler from here in Indiana.

Perhaps Dr. Paul's presence among the candidate will prove educational for the electorate (wishful thinking, eh?). Maybe some of the other candidate will wake up and move closer to his positions.

[Submariner]

Dr. Paul attempted to introduce a resolution declaring war on Iraq. He was told by his leadership that we don't do things that way anymore. What is wrong with this? It is what the Constitution requires.

[Heavy Metal]

Signs of Intelligence?

One of the things that's got to be going through a lot of peoples' minds now is how one man with two handguns, that he had to reload time and time again, could go from classroom to classroom on the Virginia Tech campus without being stopped. Much of the answer can be found in policies put in place by the university itself.


Virginia, like 39 other states, allows citizens with training and legal permits to carry concealed weapons. That means that Virginians regularly sit in movie theaters and eat in restaurants among armed citizens. They walk, joke and rub shoulders everyday with people who responsibly carry firearms -- and are far safer than they would be in San Francisco, Oakland, Detroit, Chicago, New York City, or Washington, D.C., where such permits are difficult or impossible to obtain.


The statistics are clear. Communities that recognize and grant Second Amendment rights to responsible adults have a significantly lower incidence of violent crime than those that do not. More to the point, incarcerated criminals tell criminologists that they consider local gun laws when they decide what sort of crime they will commit, and where they will do so.


Still, there are a lot of people who are just offended by the notion that people can carry guns around. They view everybody, or at least many of us, as potential murderers prevented only by the lack of a convenient weapon. Virginia Tech administrators overrode Virginia state law and threatened to expel or fire anybody who brings a weapon onto campus.


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posted by Fred Dalton Thompson at 6:31pm

http://www.abcradio.com/blog.asp?id=15663

[BravoCompanyUSA]

I think Fred Thompson is our best chance.