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Ted Cruz: What the Times Doesn’t Get about the Second Amendment
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"On Friday, the New York Times stated, in a blaring headline, that my support for Second Amendment rights is 'strange.'"
"In particular, the writer took issue with my statement that 'the Second Amendment to the Constitution isn’t for just protecting hunting rights, and it’s not only to safeguard your right to target practice. It is a constitutional right to protect your children, your family, your home, our lives, and to serve as the ultimate check against governmental tyranny — for the protection of liberty.'"
"In addition to 'strange,' the NYT described this view as 'ridiculous,' 'silly,' and 'absurd' (methinks the Old Gray Lady doth protest too much)." ... |
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lindsay graham doesn't get it either...on fox sunday with chris wallace saying the (very) last option for a populace is an informed electorate rather than, as Cruz stated, the 2A ...which lindsay characterizes as "people coming out on the streets with guns to solve problems"...his claim to want to run was the most halfhearted attempt at explanation ever seen, as if he thinks it's a joke, and 'he still has to assemble/arrange a platform/action plan'.
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| Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. — James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 46 |
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