Marco Rubio Wins GOP Debate For His 2nd Amendment Answer Alone
Brian Anderson
January 15, 2016
While most people are talking about the Donald Trump/Ted Cruz “birther” battle from Thursday’s GOP debate, I think that’s just a silly distraction. For me, I want to know where the candidates stand on our 2nd Amendment rights, something that hasn’t really been discussed in previous debates. I’d say Marco Rubio won this part of the night hands down and Chris Christie lost chins down.
The candidates were each given a chance to state their position on gun control. Jeb Bush was up first and used his time to talk about the Charleston church shooting. Next! Give it up Jeb, you’re not going to be president.
Donald Trump basically talked about mental health stuff, and didn’t bring up his liberal past where he whole-heartedly supported gun control.
Then, moderator Niel Cavuto threw this out to Marco Rubio:
“Senator Rubio, you said that President Obama wants to take people’s guns away. Yet under his presidency, gun sales have more than doubled. That doesn’t sound like a White House that is unfriendly to gun owners,” said Cavuto.
“That sounds like the people are afraid the president is going to take their guns away,” said Rubio, nailing it.
“The 2nd Amendment is not an option. It is not a suggestion. It is a Constitutional right of every American to be able to protect themselves and their families,” Rubio said.
Rubio continued, hammering Obama and his anti-gun fantasies:
“I am convinced that if this president could confiscate every gun in America, he would. I am convinced that this president, if he could get rid of the Second Amendment, he would. I’m convinced because I see how he works with his attorney general not to defend the Second Amendment but to figure out ways to undermine it. I have seen him appoint people to our courts not to defend the 2nd Amendment but to figure out ways to undermine it,” said Rubio.
He then went in for some truth that Obama and the liberals can’t handle:
“Here’s my second problem – none of these instances that the president points to as the reason why he’s doing these things would have been prevented. You know why? Because criminals don’t buy their guns from a gun show, they don’t buy their guns from a collector, and they don’t buy their guns from a gun store. They steal them; they get them on the black market. And let me tell you, ISIS and terrorists do not get their guns at a gun show,” he said.
And then he let Obama have it a little bit more:
“If there is an act of violence in America [Obama’s] immediate answer before he even knows the facts is gun control. Here’s a fact: We are in a war against ISIS. They are trying to attack us here in America. They attacked us in Philadelphia last week and they attacked us in San Bernardino…and the last line standing between them and our families might be us and a gun. When I’m President of the United States, we are defending the Second Amendment, not undermining it the way Barack Obama does,” finished Rubio to thunderous applause.
RINO Chris Christie tried to explain the gun control laws he signed as Governor of New Jersey away by saying it was okay because he worked with legislators on it and Obama’s approach is to use executive action. Boo!
Ted Cruz was last. His answer wasn’t necessarily bad, but he kind wandered around not really answering the question with that creepy used car salesman/ambulance chaser lawyer way he has.
Oh wait, I forgot about Ben Carson. And so did everyone else.
In the end, I feel like Marco Rubio was the only candidate that talked about gun rights with any passion or sincerity. I’m not totally a single-issue voter, but the 2nd Amendment is a very important issue to me and after the debate I believe Rubio would be the best protector of it.
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