Speaking to a Texas Tea Party group yesterday, Santorum was asked if the Second Amendment is only for hunting and sports, to which he responded emphatically:
the Second Amendment is there to protect the First Amendment!
He then stated that his family owns firearms for hunting and handguns for personal protection. He cautioned that if Obama is re-elected our rights to firearms will be in jeopardy. The Helleer decision was a 5 to 4 decision by the court, should Obama get to place anybody else on the court, that majority could very easily end up a minority.
Although Santorum gives me with willies because of his outspoken social conservative views, views that could seriously hurt his prospects in the general election, I like his stand on the second amendment. It seems more real to me than Mitten's picking up a Life Membership in the NRA in 2006 just as he began to run for President the first time.
Santorum's stance that the 1st Amendment is protected by the 2nd has the liberal twits at Think Progress up in arms. Then again it doesn't take much to get those pin-headed fools going. They say this about it:
...suggests a vigilante approach that is difficult to square with the rule of law. If each citizen can both decide for themselves what the First Amendment means and then use their personal arsenal to enforce it, the inevitable result is chaos.
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Damn it, Will Ferrell is really very funny, too bad he doesn't believe that we have the right to protect ourselves. Why else would he be one of the celebrity shills for the Brady campaign?
