Cruentus
Grandmaster
Mike Huckabee seems to be the ONLY one of the canidates who really isn't afraid to address the 2nd amendment and what it is really for...
Amen. I am really starting to like this guy.
Here is the transcript and link to the video on youtube (the part about 2nd amendment is about 5 min. in)
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0710/19/gb.01.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKHve5gd5yM&feature=related
HUCKABEE: And the Second Amendment is not about hunting. I get so frustrated when some candidates asked about the Second Amendment, they start telling me, "Well, I have a hunting license, and I`m a member of the NRA." Look, so do I. It`s not about the Second Amendment.
The Second Amendment is about freedom. It`s about protecting ourselves, our families, our property, and ultimately, if necessary -- I know this sounds pretty bold -- but from our own government, when they get out of control. That`s what it`s all about.
BECK: So you tell me what they should have done after Katrina in New Orleans, when they went door to door to take the guns -- you know, Newt Gingrich just said...
HUCKABEE: The Department of Justice should have -- instead of supporting that, should have said, "My gosh, you can`t do that."
BECK: They`re not going to do that. They`re not going to do that, Governor. You know that and I know that.
HUCKABEE: Well, I wouldn`t appoint an attorney general, as president, who didn`t understand what the Second Amendment did, and it gives the rights to individuals, not to geographical locations, not to police entities. It gives that as a fundamental right, just in the same way -- if we value the First Amendment, then we have to value the Second. And I don`t understand why more people, particularly in the media, who embrace, love, and herald the First Amendment, don`t realize that, once you start chipping away at any of them, you chip away at all of them.
BECK: So let me go back. You are a citizen, and Newt Gingrich just gave a speech where he said, "I don`t think people are paying attention to their liberties." He said, "All it`s going to take is one city to be destroyed, and they`ll come and take all your liberties, and we will hand it to the federal government."
So you tell me. The federal government says, "We`ve got to get all these handguns, we`ve got to get all these guns off the street," and they come knocking at your door, and they say, "Governor, I`m sorry, I`m here for any gun that you might have." What do you say?
HUCKABEE: Well, being the first governor in America with a concealed carry permit, they need to understand something: They`re not going to do that, because that is an ultimate violation of my basic constitutional right to protect myself.
And unless I`m a criminal, they have no right to confiscate anything from me, especially -- see, they`re not confiscating my firearm. Here`s what we`ve got to understand. They`re confiscating my constitutional rights. And once they take that one away, then they can take away every other right, the right of a fair trial, the right of speech, the right of assembly, the right of worship. It doesn`t stop.
And I`m not trying to be some, you know, radical guy. I`m just trying to say that this is a dangerous precedent, and those people who defend the destruction of the Second Amendment need to think through where they`re headed with that.
Amen. I am really starting to like this guy.
Here is the transcript and link to the video on youtube (the part about 2nd amendment is about 5 min. in)
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0710/19/gb.01.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKHve5gd5yM&feature=related