Condi Rice on the Second Amendment

Hat tip to BC Imperial Torturer at the Rott for finding this ...

TBO.com has this piece today about Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and what she thinks of the Second Amendment. Go read it. It's quite enlightening.

From personal experience, Dr. Rice clearly shows that it is sometimes necessary to take up arms to defend oneself and family. The police may not be there, or they may not be willing to help.

Dr. Rice was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1954. When she was about 9 years old, Birmingham was the site of a series of awful terrorist attacks by the White Knight Riders (read that Ku Klux Klan and Robert Byrd), in which her father and others had to take up arms to defend themselves against these thugs, who bombed a church there in 1963. Without easy access to these weapons, Dr. Rice doesn't believe for a minute that her father and his friends would have been able to defend themselves.

Rice said the Founding Fathers understood "there might be circumstances that people like my father experienced in Birmingham, Ala., when, in fact, the police weren't going to protect you."

"I also don't think we get to pick and choose from the Constitution," she said in the interview, which was taped for airing Wednesday night. "The Second Amendment is as important as the First Amendment."

Right on the money, Dr. Rice. Now will someone please go tell Senator McCain how important the First Amendment is? I think he forgot.

RWR