I don't have a hunting lisence either. Last time I checked the Second Amdendment wasn't about hunting, except in the warped mind of a liberal. I guess only phony over the hill posing liberals buy them for show these days.

Means exactly nothing, except the Corrupt News Newtwork living up to it's namesake.

Thompson should just say he's not a hunter, but he keeps a .44 in his nightstand. That would give them the vapors. LOL

I haven't even touched a gun and I'm a 2nd Amendment enthusiast. Peter Hamby's poor little head would probably explode if he found out people like me existed.

Liberals as so consistantly inconsistant.

Like five year olds always changing the rules of a game in the middle to assure that they will win.

First, the hard-to-swallow part the media hasn't been reporting, and which IMO hasn't helped your campaign at all. Don't keep paying to have all other Republican candidates excluded from Florida gunshows. It's a stupid waste of your limited money, and with people like Ron Paul's fans, who are perfectly-willing to waylay attendees on the public sidewalk with literature, it won't work anyway. May as well kiss some major Larry Pratt butt, change/disavow a few old positions, and admit that the gun community is -- as Warner himself shows -- diverse and smart. You can't fool us these days because gun-rights fans own the internet. We know your record's not perfect but we also know you're a damn sight better than the major-RINOs.

Now the bitter pill's over. Time for the fun part, which your wife and various other well-intentioned political advisors will no-doubt try to veto. Ignore them all and pay attention to the sarcastic libertarian Ron Paul supporter instead. ;) Advisors will say "people think machineguns are all illegal!!!" They're right, too, but ask yourself why? Might it be due to mediabias?? Might that particular variety of bias, ignorance, and bigotry be particularly-easy to lampoon, especially if accompanied with a bit of suggested Larry Pratt asskissing? IMO the answer is "yes."

Time to do something radical. Pencil in Thursday, April 10th on your calendar (it's too-late for October, but the shoot's never been anything-like a secret) and go to the Knob Creek Machinegun Shoot on the first, somewhat restricted day because the crowds will be insane (in more ways than "big") Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. You need to arrive in that red pickup truck full of Fred-literature Thursday morning around 10AM. Maybe bring 2 trucks, because this gun show is HUGE and your people will be out by Sunday afternoon if my guess is right.

Your sole mission is to get photographed with the biggest possible machineguns or cannons you can (a WW2-style flamethrower is sometimes available, too). You need to fire-off a long burst while grinning like a banshee at the cars & dirt you're hosing. You won't need to pretend to smile, though, because sometimes happiness truly is a belt-fed weapon, and unlike many campaign photo-ops, this one will actually be FUN. Once you've hosed that belt, you need to dump all the literature on Fred supporters there, who'll love the fact that you showed-up, because doing something like this will take BALLS. You can probably be out of there by noon for a nap.

Will the biased news media go-nuts if you take my advice? Yes. That's your goal. Then you can goad them on all the bias they're guaranteed to spew, while subtly slamming the RINOs. Ideally, you could have Kentucky supporters cook you a deer-feast that Thursday night, and with a forkful of venison in your hand, you can look up and say something like: "The Second Amendment isn't about hunting, but Bambi here sure tastes good."
JMR

Who just got this year's load of Bambi-sausage -- YUMMY!!! :)

Rally online with fans of Dr. Ron Paul.

I own three guns and I don't hunt and I am in favor of hunting. In order to be pro-2nd ammendment one must have a hunting license is typical liberal false logic. 'If you don't have a hunting license then there is no reason to have a gun'! Sort of like you can't be pro-1st ammendment unless you have your own dopey news network!

Are not needed to shoot all animals, anyway. Deer & ducks are in the 'get a license' category in Florida. Wascally wabbits aren't. All three are quite edible once you shoot, clean, and cook 'em. Ignorance leads to bigotry, every time, and journalists may not want to admit it, but they're largely-ignorant regarding firearms.
JMR

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If Fred gets a hunting license then he's a killer of innocent animals.

If he doesn't hunt then he's a "hypocrite" for affirming the 2nd Amendment.

I honestly don't know if these liberals are engaging in deliberate deception and false logic (good term), or if they're simply retarded.

Where do I get a license to hunt CNN staff members?

"A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one."

Alexander Hamilton

You might want to modify your comment as a Wisconsin teacher discovered.

I honestly haven’t given it too much thought, but imagine a
nation where any adult citizen was legally allowed to acquire, possess and responsibly
use a lethal weapon. And that there were no limits to the individual’s license
to use more and more powerful weapons. Would violence increase?

How many people are killed or maimed by automobiles, semi-tractor-trailer rigs, trains, etc. in America
every year?

I’m not saying cars equal guns in terms of personal defense
or strength to withstand tyranny, but the MSM agenda is clear: cars don’t kill
people…SUV’s do. I mean, er, men waving scimitars don’t kill people …
semiautomatic weapons do. Wait, what I mean to say is…

I don’t have a hunting license, nor a weapons permit, nor
own a gun, but I support your right to have one. I have had a driver’s license
for 30 years, and drive a few tons of steel, plastic and rubber at highway
speeds, but I trust others to (generally) stay on their own side of the road,
to stop at intersections, and to avoid running over my children.

I trust our local police officers to carry weapons (in any
setting), why not a similarly trained and certified, responsible private
citizen Wouldn’t it have saved lives if several of these folks were present in
every Columbine, Blacksburg, or Omaha
setting? I’d bet that, for every one incident of a lunatic ‘going postal’, we’d
prevent ten.

Oh, and back on topic: I like Fred Thompson. He had a red
pickup truck didn’t he?

...either we get our heads together about this war, or our enemies will surely separate them for us...

This is funny!

If this is the best the media can throw at Fred, this gives me a clue as to why the media dislikes him so much.

Did any of these pea-brains ever stop to consider that Fred has been just a wee bit busy for the past few years with raising his kids, acting on a popular series, and running for POTUS. 

I own guns, but I have not hunted in quite sometime. I target shoot often with my granddaughter and would encourage others to do the same, but I don't have a hunting license either, so what.

Silly, silly media! 

Rush Limbaugh stated that of the top 5 Republicans running for the presidency, only one was a true conservative. http://www.fred08.com/ Rush then stated that the conservative was Fred Thompson

The court decision of 1934 that created the NFA is ambiguous at best.

In one part it states that there is no evidence that a sawed off shotgun is a military arm despite the fact that in WWI they were used in the trenches.  They were even fitted with bayonet lugs during WWII.

In another part of the decision it was stated that the militia is all able
bodied persons and when reporting for duty to bring their own arms of
a type in use by the military of the day.

I am in favor of universal ownership.  As far as a CCW permit, this is asking permission and thereby turning a right into a privilege.

Jack Van Nostrand

I find it funny that CNN should attack Fred, when Fred has had the only correct answers to gun control issues in the debates. Rudi has consistently said that he feels that the banning of guns in NYC is a good thing, but he believes in second ammendment rights for people who don't live in NYC. Fred said that the ammednment applies to everyone, not just to folks living outside of DC or NYC, which is the correct answer.

What I take issue with is the second ammendment is the only ammendment that some people feel free to put conditions on. When you talk about freedom of the press, and you mention that this was designed to ensure people could express concerns about their government, and that it was never meant to cover porn, we hear that the right is absolute. When you talk about how the Founders were concerned with the people being able to talk internally, and how the internet allows people to dissent in foreign countries and that the Founders could have never imagined such a thing, we hear that it doesn't matter. But when the same arguments are applied to the second ammendment, everything is open to interpretation... we hear how the Founders could not have conceived of people owning M-16A2s or M4-A1 carbines, and so these must be banned.

I think the second ammendment should be treated just like all the other ammendments. If someone has an issue with their neighbor having a machine gun, that's too bad. I don't like the idea of an American to use the internet to criticize our country to folks overseas, but I have to deal with that.

Speaking of CNN, they were also the network that following the arrest of that teenager who threatened to shoot up his school a few months ago, showed a table covered with all manner of "machine guns" and "assault rifles". I looked at those images and thought "if I can't afford all those guns at my age and status in life, how the hell does a teenager?" The answer was "He can't!", so I took a closer look at the guns the next time the video ran, and saw features on them that immediately told me they were all airsoft guns, not real guns.

CNN, the most reliable name in network news, apparently forgot to mention the "machine guns" and "assault rifles" only fired 6MM plastic balls that are designed to be shot in the house without breaking anything.

Abortion is a guaranteed, written in stone, Constitutional right we're not allowed to limit in any way...

...but the 2nd amendment, written by the forefathers' own hands, as an hommage to the minutemen who rallied America into existance - that amendment is up for debate.

Get back to me when Elizabeth Edwards, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama and Theresa Heinz Kerry have all had abortions.

According to CNN's logic, are we to infer that because he has a computer but does not publish a newspaper, he doesn't really support the First Amendment..???