This is going to be a hot topic going into the mid terms. I am so disappointed here in FL with governor Scott's trampling on the 2A. He's running now for Senator. I sure don't want him representing me and I sure as heck don't want the DEM (Nelson) either. Thinking really of sitting this one out.
Ted Cruz: Freedom only exists if citizens have the means to defend it ........When the Supreme Court recognized in District of Columbia vs. Heller that there is an individual right to keep and bear arms protected by the Second Amendment, the justices reaffirmed a concept that had gone unquestioned for most of our nation's history: a free society exists only if its citizens have the means to defend themselves and their God-given rights.
From the days of the Minutemen mustering to fight redcoats at Lexington and Concord, to civil rights leaders like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X recognizing the necessity of firearms to protect their families, Americans have recognized that responsible gun ownership is indispensable to the preservation of their liberties........
.............But lately, the mask has slipped. Witness Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens' recent opinion piece in The New York Times, titled "Repeal the Second Amendment." He admits that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to keep and bear arms after all — something some liberals have denied for decades, and that Justice Stevens tried to write out of the Constitution in his dissent in Heller — so he concludes we should just get rid of it.
Coastal elites who have never been to shooting ranges consider even responsible firearm ownership akin to tracking manure onto the kitchen floor: perhaps not criminal, but certainly not acceptable, and worth stopping.
This makes them especially susceptible to biased reporting that casts legal firearm enthusiasts like NRA members as villains. In fact, most of NRA members are model citizens. Concealed-carry permit holders commit crime at lower rates than the general population, the vast majority of crimes involving guns are committed with illegally obtained weapons, and most mass shootings tragically occur in legally designated gun-free zones.......................
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/05/03/ted-cruz-freedom-exists-citizens-means-defend
