John McCain on Individual Liberty
He gets it, even though he’s off the ranch on campaign finance reform:
John McCain believes that the right of law abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is a fundamental, individual Constitutional right that we have a sacred duty to protect. We have a responsibility to ensure that criminals who violate the law are prosecuted to the fullest, rather than restricting the rights of law abiding citizens. Gun control is a proven failure in fighting crime. Law abiding citizens should not be asked to give up their rights because of criminals - criminals who ignore gun control laws anyway…
…As part of John McCain’s defense of Second Amendment rights, he cosponsored legislation to lift a ban on the law abiding citizens of the District of Columbia from exercising their Constitutional right to bear arms….
…John McCain has opposed “waiting periods” for law abiding citizen’s purchase of firearms.
While gun control is a dormant issue, we can look forward to it being revived if an liberal extremist like Obama or Hillary becomes President in 2009. Liberals hate individual rights - they love group rights; my pet phrasing about this is that liberals love humanity, but really can’t stand individual humans. At any rate, a right is something which can only accrue to an individual, not to a group - including gun rights, which liberals especially hate because guns are mean and people who own them are buck-toothed rednecks in flyover America, anyways (this, seriously, is the level of intellect most liberals expend on gun issues).
Now, I don’t own a gun and never intend to own a gun - guns make me nervous; but that is just me. I am very happy for my neighbors to have guns and I wouldn’t mind at all putting a sign in front of the neighborhood stating “Criminals: some of the people here own guns; do you want to guess which ones?”. I’m safer for my neighbors having guns becaue the criminals out there aren’t sure who has them - and thus they are extra careful in their criminal plans, given them less opportunity to actually commit crimes (and thus we’ve only had one robbery since I moved here - rather brazen one, at that, but understandable why it went off so smoothly - un-lived-in house in a neighborhood which, being relatively new, is used to having moving vans around…just drive up and “move” all the stuff).
At all events, John McCain understands where a right resides, and we can count on him, I think, to defend our rights.
75 comments February 27th, 2008
