Pro-Gun Pesidential Candidates????

[Submariner]

I think Fred Thompson is our best chance.

Fred Dalton Thompson has the best chance to be elected. As always with politicians, watch what they do, not what they say.

Commissioner Fred Thompson was appointed to the Commission by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist for a two-year term expiring December 31, 2006. Senator Thompson’s service in the United States Senate (1994-2002) was a continuation of a distinguished career across both the public and private arenas. In his first campaign for public office, Thompson was elected by the people of Tennessee in 1994 to the remaining two years of an unexpired Senate term. When he was returned for a full term in 1996, he received more votes than any previous candidate for any office in Tennessee history. In 1997, Thompson was elected Chairman of the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, making him among the most junior senators in history to serve as Chairman of a major Senate Committee. He was also a member of the Finance Committee and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Thompson chose not to run for re-election in 2002. He resumed his legal and consulting work; is a frequent speaker; and is a regular on the long-running TV drama, Law & Order. Thompson is a former President of the Federal City Council in Washington and a current member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a Visiting Fellow with the American Enterprise Institute.

Prior to his election to the U. S. Senate, Thompson maintained law offices in Nashville and Washington and served as Special Counsel to both the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. He is also the author of the Watergate memoir, “At That Point In Time.” Having grown up in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, Thompson attended Memphis State University, where he earned an undergraduate degree in philosophy and political science. He went on to receive a law degree from Vanderbilt University. Two years later, Thompson was named an Assistant United States Attorney and, at the age of 30, was appointed Minority Counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee, where he served in 1973 and 1974.

Thompson has appeared in 18 motion pictures, including feature roles in “ Cape Fear”, “In the Line of Fire, “Die Hard II,” and “The Hunt for Red October.” He has also appeared is numerous television series and movies.

Senator Thompson lives in Nashville, Tennessee and Washington, D.C. He has two sons, Tony and Daniel, and five grandchildren. In June of 2002, Thompson married Jeri Kehn, a political and media consultant. They have a daughter, Hayden, who was born in 2003.

http://www.uscc.gov/about/commissioners/thompsonpg.php

[f.2]

The GOA has a round-up on the candidates.

http://gunowners.org/pres08/

Thanks for posting that.

As of today, Fred is my front runner.

[Cesiumsponge]

I like Ron Paul for 2nd Amendment rights and 99% of his other platforms...probably because all his decisions are based around the framework of the Constitution. He has also expanded his pro 2A message specifically to prevent the UN from passing any type of legislation that would attempt to overstep national soverignty. He hates the UN.

On the VTech killings, he wasn't afraid to censor himself. He plainly came out and said what would be regarded (by media anyhow) as an unpopular thing

"It's the lack of access to law-abiding citizens to have guns in many places that increases our crime rate," he said. "We just can't prevent every tragedy of a maniac. So to pretend this happened because of lack of laws would be the wrong thing to assume."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0407/3556.html

Archive of Ron Paul's speeches and writings

A rough outline of his voting record


Of course, unfortunately, someone like him isn't very popular with the media and hasn't gotten much national airtime without a lot of protest (ie Fox)

[Shihan]

I think Paul need to rethink his abolish the IRS idea. I do hate paying taxes as much as the next guy.

[Bulldog1967]

Fred Thompson on the VA tech shootings:

Signs of Intelligence?

By Fred Thompson

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.

In recent years, however, armed Americans - not on-duty police
officers - have successfully prevented a number of attempted mass
murders. Evidence from Israel, where many teachers have weapons and
have stopped serious terror attacks, has been documented. Supporting,
though contrary, evidence from Great Britain, where strict gun
controls have led to violent crime rates far higher than ours, is
also common knowledge.

So Virginians asked their legislators to change the university's
"concealed carry" policy to exempt people 21 years of age or older
who have passed background checks and taken training classes. The
university, however, lobbied against that bill, and a top
administrator subsequently praised the legislature for blocking the
measure.

The logic behind this attitude baffles me, but I suspect it has to do
with a basic difference in worldviews. Some people think that power
should exist only at the top, and everybody else should rely on "the
authorities" for protection.

Despite such attitudes, average Americans have always made up the
front line against crime. Through programs like Neighborhood Watch
and Amber Alert, we are stopping and catching criminals daily. Normal
people tackled "shoe bomber" Richard Reid as he was trying to blow up
an airliner. It was a truck driver who found the D.C. snipers.
Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show
that civilians use firearms to prevent at least a half million crimes
annually.

When people capable of performing acts of heroism are discouraged or
denied the opportunity, our society is all the poorer. And from the
selfless examples of the passengers on Flight 93 on 9/11 to Virginia
Tech professor Liviu Librescu, a Holocaust survivor who sacrificed
himself to save his students earlier this week, we know what
extraordinary acts of heroism ordinary citizens are capable of.

Many other universities have been swayed by an anti-gun, anti-self
defense ideology. I respect their right to hold those views, but I
challenge their decision to deny Americans the right to protect
themselves on their campuses - and then proudly advertise that fact
to any and all.

Whenever I've seen one of those "Gun-free Zone" signs, especially
outside of a school filled with our youngest and most vulnerable
citizens, I've always wondered exactly who these signs are directed
at. Obviously, they don't mean much to the sort of man who murdered
32 people just a few days ago.

- Fred Thompson is an actor and former United States senator from Tennessee.

[rayray]

Now I know, thanx for the link.

[tinman44]

i think huckabee is getting my vote, he is progun and anti IRS

[tikkafan]

Right now it's Rudy's nomination to lose. That's unsettling to me.

Smooth talking RINO, who knows exactly how to sound like he is Pro 2A, when he really isn't.

Look at his stance on abortion. He's against it morally but thinks a woman has the right to choose. That's kind of stepping on your tongue isn't it?

If there is a God, Ron Paul wins the next election.

[Army Chief]

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

Hear, hear. My bumper sticker is already on order.

Chief

[Smith M&P]

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This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.

Hoooah!

Hi guys. First post here, and I had to give a "Hooooah" for Fred Thompson. I haven't decided 100% yet until I see all the scores from GOA, but I've said for YEARS that I wish Fred would run.

Unless we could get J. C. Watts to run...