Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire CONDI RICE SUMS UP THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN 75 WORDS:

Taking her sentiment one step further, how about:
"The trouble with socialism is eventually you run out of other peoples money". M. Thatcher

I don't find that to be true at all about her. From an interview with Larry King 11 May 2005 - full transcript here Larry King Transcript

KING: We have a Second Amendment. People can own guns. By the way, what do you think about gun control?

RICE: The way I come out of my own personal experience, in which in Birmingham, Alabama, my father and his friends defended our community in 1962 and 1963 against White Knight Riders by going to the head of the community, the head of the cul-de-sac, and sitting there, armed. And so I'm very concerned about any abridgement of the Second Amendment.

I'll tell you that I know that if Bull Conner had had lists of -- of registered weapons, I don't think my father and his friends would have been sitting at the head of the community, defending the community.

KING: So you would not change the Second Amendment? You would not...

RICE: I also don't think we get to pick and choose from the Constitution. The Second Amendment is as important as the First Amendment.

KING: But doesn't having the guns, while it's protection, also leads to people killing people?

RICE: Well, obviously, the sources of violence are many, and we need to -- to get at the source of the violence. Obviously, I'm very much in favor of things like background checks, and you know, controlling it at gun shows. And there are lots of things we can do.

But we have to be very careful when we start abridging rights that our Founding Fathers thought very important. On this one, I think that they understood that there might be circumstances that people like my father experienced in Birmingham, Alabama, when in fact, the police weren't going to protect you.

From the George Will article at http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will080700.asp

IN A PLEASANTLY meandering conversation over lunch in San Francisco last summer, Condoleezza Rice, then still provost of Stanford but already unofficially what she now is officially, George W. Bush's senior foreign policy adviser, was asked her thoughts about gun control. "I am," she answered crisply, "a Second Amendment absolutist." Growing up in Birmingham, Ala., in the early 1960s, when racial tensions rose, there were, she said, occasions when the black community had to exercise its right to bear arms in self-defense, becoming, if you will, a well-regulated militia.


So, I see no evidence, nor did I see any evidence during her time at the NSC nor Sec State that made me think she was anti-2nd. Do you have anything to back that up Sam?

+1...Great posting, Pugs....

Pugs, I believe you are right. Seems I overlooked some things, and was basing my opinion on mis information.

I still believe she is more liberal establishment GOP than she is conservative though.