VERBATIM POST
Posted 2011-06-13, but there is no update since then.
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CAIN: I support the 2nd amendment.
B: So what’s the answer on gun control?
C: The answer is I support, strongly support, the 2nd amendment. I don’t support onerous legislation that’s going to restrict people’s rights in order to be able to protect themselves as guaranteed by the 2nd amendment.
B: Should states or local government be allowed to control guns, the gun situation, or should…
C: Yes
B: Yes?
C: Yes.
B: So the answer is yes?
C: The answer is yes, that should be a state’s decision.
Then you don't support the 2nd Amendment. The problem with this position, of course, is that if the 2nd Amendment doesn't apply to the states then neither does the 1st, 4th or 5th, and suddenly you have no rights at all.
Goodbye Herman; you just disqualified yourself.
Incidentally, the government doesn't grant rights. It can either recognize or abrogate them, but they are not the government's to bestow. What is captured in this exchange is Herman Cain's belief that you do not, in fact, have any rights at all!
This is usually how it goes:
ReplyDeleteSo, the States demanded the BoR's into the constitution before they would ratify that constitution.
Yes.
And one of those rights were the 2nd?
Yes. But there is also the 10th.
So, what you are telling me then, is even though the States would not ratify the constitution without the BoR's being attached to it, which includes the 2nd, the States did not feel so strongly about the 2nd, that they conferred upon themselves to secretly reserve the right to abolish the 2nd and the whole BoR's at any time they so desired while strongly telling the Federal government that they ... CAN'T?
Huh?
Well he's out of my list of potential candidates. Glad I didnt' spend the money on a Cain for President sticker for my vehicle!!
ReplyDeleteD.Stroud
Tarboro, NC
I've read a few articles that stated he may have been confused by the rapid fire questions, but since I've seen nothing since then, I assume that is what he meant.
ReplyDeleteVery good break-down, Curtis.
ReplyDeleteCain lost my vote.
Dan III
Thank you.
ReplyDeleteAs I was mildly suspicious with all of the flat taxes he was proposing, with no mention of reducing the size of government or "entitlements", this seals it for me.
Bob
III