This is from a speech he gave at the NRA's national convention in 2011. Seems clear to me.mamabearCali wrote:Let us hope not--Romney is slightly better than Obama, but that is a very light slight. Since Newt is on the rise is he any better on guns?
"The right to bear arms is not about hunting. It's not about target practice ... The right to bear arms is a political right designed to safeguard freedom so that no government can take away from you the rights that God has given you, and it was written by people who had spent their lifetime fighting the greatest empire in the world and they knew that if they had not had the right to bear arms, they would have been enslaved. And they did not want us to be enslaved. And that is why they guaranteed us the right to protect ourselves. It is a political right of the deepest importance to the survival of freedom in America."