Posted on 03/22/2013 9:17:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
He said that urban dwellers should not be allowed to have “assault weapons”.
Don’t doubt it for a moment, but in a new milieu...Congress...he’d be out of his element and thus vulnerable. Do not for one instant think that since he could not be targeted due to blackness, he would instead be targeted in a more subtle way. He would made to feel like absolute jerkballs unfit to launder his used surgical gowns were outearning him 20:1. He would be offered all manner of “money traps” for the purpose of later discrediting him. Think about it. Is he smart enough to resist? Of course he is. Is he smart enough to refuse the 17th one offered him?
You’re into IBD. Business. How many times have you heard of stories where someone who was great in one business decides to go into another business because, well, they were so successful here, so they’d be great over there? How about Sam Zell, who got out of his multi-billion dollar real estate empire at the absolute top, literally to the hour, then decided to buy the Chicago Tribune? (IDK if it was the Trib or another Chicago paper) Just in time for the newspaper biz to go into the toilet. He knew nothing about newspapers, but maybe always fancied owning one, I don’t know the exact details. My point is, it is a common story, a well known paradigm. It happened to me and it is a principle I will never forget. I was blazingly successful in one business and decided to get into another one which was totally foreign to me. Probably out of boredom. Matters not. The principle is valid.
aka “stick to your knitting”.
Actually, they are more than questionable. They are outright unconstitutional.
Asked by Beck for his thoughts on the Second Amendment, Carson gave the popular pro-gun argument: “There’s a reason for the Second Amendment; people do have the right to have weapons.”
But when asked whether people should be allowed to own “semi-automatic weapons,” the doctor replied: “It depends on where you live.”
“I think if you live in the midst of a lot of people, and I’m afraid that that semi-automatic weapon is going to fall into the hands of a crazy person, I would rather you not have it,” Carson elaborated.
However, if you live “out in the country somewhere by yourself” and want to own a semi-automatic weapon, he added, “I’ve no problem with that.”
First off he is a demonrat, and he is far from being a conservative. He is to the left of Gov Chrispy Cream NJ or Mutt Romney.
I am just curious if you think he's a democrat because he is black and was born in Detroit? I bet his mother is a republican and has always been. She never accepted Welfare and food stamps, but instead worked 2-3 jobs every day, just so she could provide for her 2 sons
He is probably more conservative the you are
But he has nothing against having assault weapons if you live in the country. Actually I can see his reasoning and if you think about it, then you should too
We have folks here in Grand Rapids who are working on getting the Dr to come out and speak at a Reagan day or Lincoln day dinner. Problem is his fees are quite large while he is still a DR. Once he is out his fees will reduce. Personally, I am wary of him. One good speech does not make a man. The smarter the man, the quirkier his traits.
He is supposedly retiring this year. He is very smart
Miller-Carson!
“Proving your credentials of citizenship and accomplishment outside of a political career should be the first conservative requirement.”
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Absolutely and there should be a constitutional amendment that no member of the house or senate and no president or vice president can be an attorney or even a law school graduate. In my worst moods I want to make that requirement extend to judges at all levels also. Far too many attorneys and judges appear to have ZERO respect for the constitution or for common sense morality. We now have a supreme court which shows very minimal inclination to consult the document before rendering absurd decisions.
He said he was a dem, I took him at his word.
I can’t vote for him in a primary. Moving back here after decades out of state is too much like carpetbagging.
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