I am NOT a McCain fan despite the ads that Google keeps dropping on this blog. However, Sandy Froman, the current leader of the National Rifle Association, does have a point when she states:
That’s why the 2008 presidential election has unprecedented importance for gun owners. Despite their campaign rhetoric purporting to support the right to keep and bear arms, both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are categorically opposed to our Second Amendment rights. Hillary Clinton opposed the 2005 tort reform law that saved the American gun industry from bankruptcy. Barack Obama has declared his opposition to all concealed carry laws. He has refused to repudiate his answer to a 1996 questionnaire, where he answered “yes” to a question asking if he supported laws banning “the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns.” And Senator Obama’s true contempt for gun owners came out when he described us as “clinging” to our guns out of bitterness.
You can read the full article titled Guns and Judges: Electing the Supreme Court in 2008.
Long story short is that McCain would be more friendly to gun owners than either of the total socialists. McCain is only a half-hearted socialist. For the record, I am not an anti-socialist. I think strong social networks are vital to the health of any community. However, when social networks and societal support systems are run by governments, they generally suck, for lack of a better term.
I am not interested in mediocrity, particularly when it is being forced on me in lieu of other choices I may once have had available.
McCain might well keep some pro-2nd amendment people in the government in the short term. In the long term though, the anti-individualists will keep chipping away at all the things that make people flee other places to come here – choice, opportunity, freedom and most especially a mindset of rugged individualism.
Anyone who is truly interested in self-defense and individual rights already has an escape plan. McCain isn’t going to save this country from anything. Only private citizens acting together can do that.