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Eat your heart out, U.N.
[2004]
During the bombings of the summer of 1963, her father and
other neighborhood men guarded the streets at night to keep white vigilantes at
bay. Rice said her staunch defense of gun rights comes from those days. She has
argued that if the guns her father and neighbors carried had been registered,
they could have been confiscated by the authorities, leaving the black community
defenseless. 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.
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Professor Joseph Olson; J.D., LL.M. Hamline University School of Law St. Paul, Minnesota 55104-1284 tel. (651) 523-2142 fax. (651) 523-2236 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |
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