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To: smokingfrog

Humphrey would be considered a far right wing “teabagger” by today’s media/left ...


59 posted on 12/19/2009 11:49:14 AM PST by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: spodefly

Humphrey was also pro-Second Amendment for the very reason it was intended. The last firewall against a tyrannical government. His own words below:

Sen. Hubert Humphrey’s statement, Know Your Lawmakers, Guns, Feb. 1960, p. 4 (1960): “Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.”


116 posted on 12/19/2009 12:42:57 PM PST by Fred Hayek (From this point forward the Democratic Party will be referred to as the Communist Party)
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