Huckabee, like all GOPers these days, is a simple minded fool.

..or is he saying that an armed uprising in the US against the Obama administration is ok too? Hard to tell sometimes what the hidden codewords are in the rightwing religious speech are.

seems to forget that for all our freedoms, owning guns included, that the USA has the highest murder rate of any civil country.

No taxes. No government. More guns. Money for me but none for you.
Yep, that's the perfect GOP world.

huck is ignoring the discrepancy between how the government is armed and how we are armed. as a child of a survivor of nazi germany, i was given to learn the use of a firearm by my mother, but i don't think she was looking at dealing with apache helicopters and hellfire missles. the best a population with small arms can do is change the odds in a small way for a short time for a small number of people. note how no conservative government officials are supporting our right to bear LAW missles.

In the Huckster's little brain, that almost makes sense. After all it was Arkansans that were massacred by Mormons (well, Indians, but the Mormons tricked both groups)... and if the Arkansans had not given up their weapons... it would have been a battle.

The 1st Amendment lays the foundation for a free state - the internal structure. It grants liberties which King George did not, including the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances. And that's a far more significant lapse in Iran's government - something that is accompanied by a tight-fisted religious rule.

The 2nd Amendment sets forth principles for maintaining that free state in the face of an external threat, such as the British Crown seeking to rein in its former and rebellious colonies. It is not for the convenience of 'overthrowing' a 'tyranny' that is little more than a bunch of sour grapes by sore losers.

And the coward Huckabee would NOT pick up a gun to defend anything, typical coward. But he'd let other people die.

Without the 2nd Amendment there are no battles, just massacres.

Oh good, so Steve McNair died in a "battle" -- his family must be relieved.

another Rocket Surgeon had a similar plan ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLjNJI54GMM&fe...

Have never fired at another human being. I have not even fired all the guns I own. I always enjoyed target shooting and clay pigeons.
When I was young we used to hunt and we needed the game to feed the family. But I haven't hunted an animal in nearly thirty years.
However I have no intention of giving them up. Some are keep sakes and I will just keep them thank you.
republicanism is a mental illness!

Hey Huckleberry...what's the difference between a steaming pile of shit on the side of the road on a hot summer's day and what you think?

I don't know either.

The Great Empirelist, some called him the great communicator, tried the same thing. He did so very quietly and quite illegally through good ole' Ollie who now has his own tv show.
Remember?

Huckabee needs to tend to his homofilic preaching and stay the hell away from anything that resembles politics or policies.

Robert McNamara dead @ 93.

What good is Hickster's gun going to do against a predator drone if the fedrul guvment wanted to take him out? Or a Russian or Chinese nukular missile?

Idiot.

Certainly, our forefathers owned guns but not all of them. Some fought and some died but not all owned guns or fought with them during revolutionary times. There are other things driving revolutions and other methods to employ than merely "arming everybody". Even the British dealt with the situation by employing Hessians, heavy cannons, etc. but we still managed to throw the British out. Oh, and did I mention it took more than a few riots in the streets over an election to do that?
Hey Huckleberry, go hound someone else!

Doesn't Huckleberry Hound sound like the typical Reslug Dumb Ass??

Ummm Huck my boy, ever hear of a little fracas called Little Big Horn? Both sides had guns there.

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Mike Huckabee is one of the clearest speakers I have ever heard and he plays bass.

There. I said something nice about him.

The end result of the riot instigated by one Adams in order to provoke exactly what happened, in which a vastly outnumbered group of soldiers was threatened by an unruly mob who (American myth to the contrary) were throwing more than just snowballs, resulting in the frightened soldiers firing once, their fire immediately stopped by the commanding officer on the scene, and said soldiers being defended by another Adams who demonstrated, in court, that they by and large had a legitimate reason to fire in self-defense.

"Some of us fail to understand that our 1st Amendment right to speak and assemble is meaningless without our 2nd Amendment right to bear arms. We don’t make the connection sometimes."

I'm having a little trouble making that connection.

I was in college when Kent State took place!

Were Americans to protest like they have in Iran, our government would have our blood running in the streets like water, and our "liberal" media would be telling America and the world that martial law was absolutely necessary because the rioters were nothing but looters and criminals!

Second Amendment rights will do nothing to protect our first Amendment rights if too many of us get together and raise our voices against any issue the rich take exception to!

Huck is just looking to increase the ratings of Cops on the TV. The more people buy guns, the more we'll all get to watch those juicy confrontations between some poor, desperate, unemployed slob pointing a cheap pistol at fifty cops armed with shotguns and sniper rifles.

It's a fair fight, America, because by gawd, you've got a gun, too!

Not to break with the pile on here, but it is a pretty established fact that small arms lead rebels to bigger arms. Ever heard of the American Revolution? Guys with muskets stole supplies and took over armories full of canons and powder. Then the guys with the little guns had big guns.

When the people have enough access to small arms it's called "a battle" when they organize. If they all had broomsticks rather than muskets it would have been "The American Massacre" and the Beatles would have come from Pittsburgh.

I know that gun ownership is one of those wedge issues and there is plenty of legitimate disagreement to be debated. . . but lets at least be reasonable and put to rest the red herring that having small arms is useless against government weapons. Governments and tyrants have always had bigger weapons at first. People with small guns don't just stand there in the street waiting for the helicopters to mow them down. They go gorilla. They take their pistols and rifles and hijack trucks carrying night vision, body armor and portable missile launchers. .

If powerful governments could just squash people with small arms then we would have won the war on terror before it began.

I'm just sayin'. . .

Gen Custer was unarmed?

"Now what’s the difference between a masacre and a battle? Well I’ll tell ya’. Guns. Some of us fail to understand that our 1st Amendment right to speak and assemble is meaningless without our 2nd Amendment right to bear arms. We don’t make the connection sometimes."

Quite aside from all the arguments you can make just on the face of this statement, and the nuttiness of what Huckabee has to say . . .

What about when the government is spying on you without your knowledge? When your private, freely expressed opinions are secretly being eavesdropped upon electronically without warrant, and your First Amendment rights are being routinely violated without your knowledge, what use is a gun?

How does a gun protect you from electronic tyranny?

For that matter, how does a gun protect you from a state that possesses standing armies, city police forces with heavily-armed swat teams and a federal police force that can operate across state lines?

In an age of techno-spying and armed government, the 2nd Amendment is a joke. It's a quaint reminder of a long-dead era when the right to own a musket enabled citizens to be soldiers when the need arose to defend against arbitrary rule. That world no longer exists.