Gotta love it.
Posted on 11/20/2004 6:52:50 PM PST by KoRn
Saturday, Nov. 20, 2004 9:36 p.m. EST
Condi: Why I Support the Second Amendment
Secretary of State nominee Dr. Condoleezza Rice is a big supporter of the second amendment, a commitment cultivated during her days growing up in Bull Conner's Birmingham, Alabama, when the shotgun wielded by her father was often the only thing that stood between her family and the Ku Klux Klan.
In 1963, racial violence was "turning her hometown into 'Bombingham' as Alabama’s governor George Wallace fought a federal court order to integrate the city’s schools," writes Rice biographer Antonia Felix.
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In excerpts of her book "The Condoleezza Rice Story," reprinted in the London Sunday Times, Felix recounts:
"With the bombings came marauding groups of armed white vigilantes called 'nightriders,' who drove through black neighborhoods shooting and starting fires. [Condi's father] John Rice and his neighbors guarded the streets at night with shotguns.
"The memory of her father out on patrol lies behind Rice’s opposition to gun control today. Had those guns been registered, she argues, Bull Connor would have had a legal right to take them away, thereby removing one of the black community’s only means of defense."
"I have a sort of pure second amendment view of the right to bear arms," said the future Secretary of State.
Yeah, she's a Texan!
No matter where she was born, she's a Texan!
OK. I would support her for President in 2008.
"Had those guns been registered, she argues, Bull Connor would have had a legal right to take them away, thereby removing one of the black community’s only means of defense."
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True Dat.
If they were any younger than eighty, I'd die with a smile on my face on the wedding night.
Agreed.
THIS is a logical, pragmatic woman. Now we're getting somewhere. God save the queen.
Gun control isn't about guns. It's about control.
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You bettcha. It's about protecting yourself from despots and "insurgents."
How very many times, I wonder, this very scenario is played out all across our country these days. Not necessarily against the klan, obviously, but in defense of self/family/property. You almost never hear about it and naturally the MSM isn't going to report it. It's surprising.
Knowing Dr Rice's stance on RKBA is not really surprising, but it is HELLA encouraging. I really hope she decides to make a go at POTUS come '08. I've a feeling she'd clean house.
ditto!
Oh, but it is about hunting....politicians! ;)
Now they are really gonna hate her.
Forget Santorum. He'd sell out his mother if he could advance himself.
Gotta love it.
Is it too late to make her the AG instead?
PS.Notice she didn't say anything about hunting?
We have a long range shoot here every spring, at 150 yds with open sights. Some guys ring the gong 10 out of 12 shots.
500 yds can be done with a .38 Special, and 600 with a .357 - I've done it! And the guys who saw it were all running the big stuff - .475 & .500 Linebaughs, .480 Rugers, etc., and were tired of getting beat up all day long.
It seems those people understand where freedom coming from, all would support RKBA. Condi understands the true freedom. The lefts won't let her support of RKBA go un-noticed. God Bless her.
JPFO has a book about 7 genocides since 1900. What prior event links all of them? (One guess enough?)
And IIRC, the National Rifle Association was involved in self defense training in the black neighborhoods at that time (something the MSM would also ignore).
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