Excerpt from an editorial by Senator Fred Thompson:
In general, lawful gun ownership is a pretty simple matter. The Founders established gun-owner rights so that citizens would possess and be able to exercise the universal right of self-defense. Guns enable their owners to protect themselves from robbery and assault more successfully and more safely than they otherwise would be able to. The danger of laws like the D.C. handgun ban is that they limit the availability of legal guns to people who want to use them for legitimate reasons, such as self-defense (let alone hunting, sport shooting, collecting), while doing nothing to prevent criminals from acquiring guns.
The D.C. handgun ban, like all handgun bans is necessarily ineffectual. It takes the guns that would be used for self protection out of the hands of law-abiding citizens, while doing practically nothing to prevent criminals from obtaining guns to use to commit crimes. Even the federal judges in the D.C. case knew about the flourishing black market for guns in our nation’s capital that leaves the criminals armed and the law-abiding defenseless. This is unacceptable.
Fred seems to have the most acceptable views on the Second Amendment and Law and Order of all the candidates running for President. You can read the entire editorial in the Hawaii Reporter.
Hat tip to NRA-ILA.
UPDATE: Minstrel has information on the recent firing of a lawyer for D.C.
As a long standing NRA member, I have emailed them about coming out NOW to endorse Fred and not wait until we may be forced to support a Rudy or Mitt. To my shagrin, their stance has been that thye are sticking to their regular endorsement process schedule. They need to hear from other NRA members that the train will be leaving the station if they don’t get on board soon.
We’re both NRA and think that’s a good idea.
We’ll get our emails sent off to the NRA later today.
CB&D
I am afrraid that Fred does not have much of a chance. That is too bad. I think I will send my 2 cents to the NRA as well.
Looking at the Iowa projections tonight, I see that Fred is doing OK at 14%, or so, and will probably be able to stay in it until at least the South Carolina primaries. An NRA endorsement would go a long way in that state.
Kenny I fixed the double post and your private comment. Good to hear from you on this.
GO FRED! That’s all I can say.
Fred’s going to keep going. Last night he said “It looks like somebody is going to need to carry a strong, consistent, conservative message — and it looks like it ought to be me.”
I don’t expect Fred to be able to overcome McCain and Romney in New Hampshire, but he ought to be able to get a decent showing in South Carolina — if he gets in gear.