Gun Grabber McCain Would Be Worse Than Obama

The last thing we need
is another liberal neocon in the White House. If the
Presidency of George W. Bush proved anything, it proved
the hazard of

electing phony Republican conservatives. At least
one is able to clearly see a liberal for what

he or she is when they have a "D" behind
their name. But put an "R" behind the name and
suddenly their liberal, Big-Government, anti-freedom
agenda is barely recognized, which makes a liberal
Republican much more dangerous than a liberal Democrat.

Let me say it straight
out: a John McCain Presidency would be far worse than a
Barack Obama Presidency. With a Democrat in the White
House, conservatives and Christians suddenly find their
principles and are able to offer resistance. Put a
Republican in the Oval Office, however, and those same
people become blind, deaf, and dumb to most any
principle they profess.

Nowhere is McCain`s
chicanery and duplicity more jeopardous than in the area
of the right to keep and bear arms. On

issues relating to the Second Amendment, John McCain
is a disaster! For example, the highly respected

Gun Owners of America (GOA) rates McCain with a grade of
F-. McCain`s failing grade is well deserved.

John McCain sponsored an
amendment to S. 1805 on March 2, 2004 that would outlaw
the private sale of firearms at gun shows. According to
GOA, the provision would effectively eliminate gun
shows, because every member of an organization
sponsoring a gun show could be imprisoned if the
organization fails to notify each and every "person
who attends the special firearms event of the
requirements [under the Brady Law]."

John McCain also
sponsored an Incumbent Protection provision to the
so-called "Campaign Finance Reform" bill, which
severely curtails the ability of outside groups (such as
GOA) to communicate the actions of incumbent politicians
to members and supporters prior to an election.

The GOA report of the
106th Congress reveals that out of 15 votes relating to
the right to keep and bear arms, Senator John McCain
voted favorably only 4 times. Put that into a percentage
and McCain`s pro-Second Amendment voting record is a
pathetic 27%.

In addition, GOA warns
that John McCain supported legislation that would force
federal agents to increase efforts in arresting and
convicting honest gun owners who may inadvertently
violate one of the many federal anti-gun laws, which
punish mere technicalities, such as gun possession.

For example, if John
McCain`s proposed legislation were to become law, a gun
owner who travels with a gun through a school zone or
who uses one of the family handguns to go target
shooting with a 15-year old could be sent to prison. And
a person who uses a gun for self-defense could be sent
to prison for a mandatory minimum of five years.

But there is so much
more to the McCain madness.

Former California State
Senator H.L. "Bill" Richardson

wrote this about John McCain,

"He`s [McCain`s] proven
his dislike for conservatives and would gut us at every
opportunity.

"Why do I say that?
Because of three decades of experience as a Republican
California Senator and a fifty year activist in the
conservative movement. I have first hand, in-their-face
experience with elitist RINO`s (Republican in Name Only)
office holders. They are biblically ignorant, power
hungry, status seeking egotists who have no difficulty
aiding their liberal Democrat colleagues whenever their
arms are politely twisted. The one thing they have in
common with liberal Democrats is their dislike for all
conservatives, especially those who are Bible-believing.
McCain, as president, would stifle the voices of elected
Republican leaders and try to legislate the conservative
movement out of existence."

Senator Richardson went
on to say that he would in no way vote for John McCain,
if indeed McCain is the Republican nominee (which he
obviously will be).

I wonder how many gun
owners and other professing pro-freedom Americans have
already fallen victim to McCain`s phony conservative
campaign? Do they not realize that they are giving a
rope to the hangman? And that they—conservatives and gun
owners—are the ones who McCain will send to the gallows?
What is wrong with the American people these days? Have
they not been betrayed enough by these phony
conservative Republicans?

For example, President
George W. Bush recently nominated Michael Sullivan to be
Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms,
and Explosives. Sullivan is one of the nation`s most
rabid anti-gunners. GOA`s Larry Pratt describes Sullivan
as being "as anti-gun as Ted Kennedy." Honest gun
owners, lawful firearms dealers, and law-abiding gun
show operators could have no worse enemy within the
federal government than Michael Sullivan. We could
expect no worse from Hillary Clinton. And a John McCain
Presidency would doubtless give us more of the same.

Regarding the Second
Amendment, the American people have no better friend
than Ron Paul. He has a 20-year proven track record of
fidelity to the right to keep and bear arms. The GOA
rates Congressman Paul with a grade of A+. According to
GOA Executive Director Larry Pratt, Ron Paul has been a
leader in the fight to defend and restore the Second
Amendment. He has sponsored legislation to repeal the
following: the Brady law; the requirement to lock up
your guns; the law permitting the U.S. to be part of the
U.N (which, among other attacks on American freedoms,
seeks to ban privately transferred firearms);
participation in UNESCO; federal prohibitions on any
pilot wishing to carry a handgun to and in his cockpit;
and the so-called "assault weapons" ban (prior to
its sunsetting in 2004).

Ron Paul has also
sponsored legislation requiring states to treat the
concealed carry permit of one state the same as they do
that state`s driver`s license. Dr. Paul also opposes a

national ID card, which would be a tool of
government to identify gun ownership.

Gun owners (along with
conservatives and Christians of all sorts) should be
ashamed of themselves for allowing an angry,
gun-grabbing liberal such as John McCain to become the
presumptive Republican Presidential nominee, while

rejecting the candidacy of one of America`s most
principled pro-life, pro-Second Amendment,
pro-Constitution, and pro-freedom legislators of this
generation: Congressman Ron Paul.

I say again, the last
thing we need is another liberal neocon in the White
House. John McCain may have an "R" behind his
name, but he is just another establishment liberal: one
America cannot afford.

Dr. Chuck Baldwin is the
pastor of Crossroad Baptist Church in Pensacola,
Florida. He hosts a

weekly radio show. His
website is

here.