Rand Paul At Machine Gun Rally: 'We're Clinging To Our Guns, Our Religions And Our Ammunition'

Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul appeared at a three-day Kentucky machine gun shoot and show over the weekend to rally support among the state's gun owners.

"I don't have to apologize for supporting the second amendment. I support it and will continue to support it no matter what the liberals say," the Tea Party-backed Republican told a crowd of Second Amendment devotees, according to a report from The Daily Caller.

"The president says that you're out here in the middle of the country clinging to your guns and ammunition. What I tell the President is, 'We're clinging to our guns, our religions and our ammunition,'" Paul continued.

The Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot takes place twice a year, and includes "four rounds of firing at a wide variety of appliances, vehicles, pyramids of tires, and barrels of fuel with pyrotechnic charges attached" that, when hit by gunfire create "large and small mushroom clouds and fire balls from hell!!"

Despite a poor year for gun control activists, who lost a landmark Supreme Court case that struck down a handgun ban in Chicago and opened other state firearms restrictions to legal scrutiny, Paul argued that gun owners are still at risk of having their right to bear arms infringed upon by Democrats.

"People sense it viscerally and they know it," Paul told The Daily Caller about a purported Democratic agenda against Second Amendment rights.

WATCH video of this year's Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot:

Comments

[cincypix]

12:17 PM on 10/14/2010

Great. Pharisees with machine guns. They'd mistake the second coming of Christ for some freeloadin' hippie and skin him alive :(

[IMOPINIONH8D]

04:56 AM on 10/14/2010

Would somebody tell these gun clingers that no one is a takin our guns. I've tried everytime I mention it they call me a liar. Read the constitution gun clingers.

[OBR]

11:42 AM on 10/13/2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TC2xTCb_GU

[DumbleGoat]

10:53 AM on 10/13/2010

I am always surprised by those candidates and Tea PArtiers who call the government our the President a socialist and then ask for help small business assistance.
DumbleGoat says, "-10 for small business people who think the government or President has a "socialist" agenda, +10 for them as this kind person does not know to run any business and will likely fail anyway."

[DaveNYC]

05:07 PM on 10/12/2010

Make sure you go to one of these if you get the chance. They are tons of fun. There are many smaller get-togethers in venues other than Knob Creek.

I disagree with Mr. Paul's (categorical) statement that Democrats are on an anti-gun agenda. But hey, it's politics.

[LynnW49]

03:49 PM on 10/12/2010

Conservatives/Tea Partiers can cling to whatever they want. We're clinging to justice.

Judge Phillips just ordered a halt to DADT. The injunction followed her ruling last month that DADT was unconstitutional. The DOJ, which filed an objection and lost, had no comment.
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In her injunction today, Philips ordered the DOD "immediately to suspend and discontinue any investigation, or discharge, separation, or other proceeding, that may have been commenced under the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Act."

She also wrote that DADT "infringes the fundamental rights of United States servicemembers and prospective servicemembers."
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http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/federal_judge_blocks_military_from_enforcing_dadt.php

[SamAdamsIII]

05:38 PM on 10/12/2010

This is not about DODT. Where is the justice in trampling on the Constitution and our fundamental rights?

[LynnW49]

06:23 PM on 10/12/2010

The ruling last month and the injunction today upheld the Constitution.

[Pot]

07:14 PM on 10/12/2010

What fundamental rights? You means the ones Bush signed away?

[Dimensio]

08:00 PM on 10/12/2010

While the policy of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is reprehensible, and while no rational justification exists to bar homosexuals from military service, I do not believe that your comment is relevant to the current discussion.

[TheFabOne]

03:41 PM on 10/12/2010

The Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot

.......where a man is the Kl@n, and their sisters love 'em.

[DandaPanda]

03:51 PM on 10/12/2010

I like Knob Creek bourbon but now it seems so dirty...

[Imno Genius]

01:50 PM on 10/14/2010

K nob K reek K entucky.

[grossmont328]

04:16 PM on 10/12/2010

don't forget the first gun laws in the U S were passed to disarm African Americans and other non Causcasians

[Kels]

03:37 PM on 10/12/2010

Remember to VOTE people take others with you, even if you have to drag them to the polls. These people are nuts. I will not give my freedom or my county to them., Idiots all of them.

[SamAdamsIII]

05:36 PM on 10/12/2010

Its ironic (get a dictionary if you have to) that you talk about freedom while trying to suppress the rights of perfectly innocent americans (factually innocent because they posses their guns legally). You have the right to not own a gun and not going to Knob Creek, you do not have the right to trample on the Constitutional rights of others. Obviously you do not want 'freedom', you want everyone to succumb to your paranoia about firearms. Why do you think the rest of us should do this?

[David lII]

02:57 PM on 10/12/2010

Funny, the only time I was ever tea bagged, was by a very cute very liberal gal seemingly without a gag reflex. I think liberals are clinging to their teabagging sensations rather than learn what the Tea Party has to offer. Either that, or they still cling to their nanny-state because they realize they do not have the ability to make anything of their own. They do not create wealth, just 'redistribute' the wealth others have made.

As for the shoot, looks like fun. I prefer precision shooting but to each their own. Unlike liberals, if I don't like an activity, I avoid it rather than try to ban it or degrade it. There are few things that I can afford to own that passed down to my grandkids that will not only retain their monetary value (if not increase in this age of fiat money), remain desired and perhaps save their life. One is a sock full of old silver coins before they lost their silver content, and the other are a few rifles cases each with its own rifle. Some have history behind them, such as an M1A and a Garand rifle, the later was surplus from WWII were it fought against those that wanted to impose their ideas of social justice on the US and the rest of the world.

[peaches49]

02:07 PM on 10/12/2010

Why don't you cling to your Board Cerification as an eye doctor?
Oh, that's right, you don't have any---you lied about it.

[Herbert Spencer]

01:48 PM on 10/12/2010

That is why we need nine unelected, unaccountable ultraleftwing judges to rule by decree lead by the Supreme Leader.

[Pot]

07:16 PM on 10/12/2010

Except they aren't all leftwing, maybe you should ask the Supreme Leader for some intelligence.

[DevonTexas]

01:09 PM on 10/12/2010

They got some pretty sick puppies in that part of the world.

[dresdengirl]

01:36 PM on 10/12/2010

That's an understatement.

[JLRoberson]

01:04 PM on 10/12/2010

You know, there's really only one thing machine guns have any practical use for off a battlefield: shooting police and FBI agents. Is Paul for that?

[Savaship42]

01:45 PM on 10/12/2010

Zombies! What about zombies?

[asdusty]

02:28 PM on 10/12/2010

Arent shotguns better for zombies? I mean, you gotta take out the head.

[RevJimIII]

02:29 PM on 10/12/2010

Can you cite examples of this happening on a regular basis?

[freelyb]

01:03 AM on 10/14/2010

Care to explain why you're stock-piling? What's your plan, Reverend?

[ActualAmerican]

01:03 PM on 10/12/2010

HOLY SMOKES BATMAN THAT LOOKS LIKE FUN!!!!

[InanimateObject]

11:28 PM on 10/13/2010

Ah, Ma Duece was such a lovely lady with a long reach

A 1919 could draw a picture under 1,000 yrds,

A man with a BAR was a tough nut and accurate enough in controlled burst, less than 5 shots in prone position to 1,000 yrds with AP.

the Bren was king

M3 grease gun was akin to a shotgun, only safe place was behind the shooter

M2 carbine was a hoot, too light

Thompson was the most controllable on full auto, also really heavy

AK 47, 74 noisy as heck, not much accuracy, not enough cooling on barrels for more than 3, 30 rnd magazines at full auto

RPD/RPK durable and accurate in single shot mode

MG3 improved version of MG42, what a buzz saw

UZI, ah yes, now there is an auto worth having

M60 heavy enough to counter climb, no quick barrel change

FN, M14, M16, anything more than 3 shot bursts and the lady climbs like a bat with its tail on fire

and yes, shooting these noisy toys is FUN at such activities as Knob Creek, but you better have some deep pockets of cash, lol.

Especially if you own a mini (6,000 rnds per minute)

[comment from Ron]

12:59 PM on 10/12/2010

Religion and guns! One has to ask the question, once again, of what Jesus would say? I'm sure Republicans think that Jesus would be a proponent of more and bigger guns. Oh, I keep forgetting: they don't think!

[SamAdamsIII]

05:30 PM on 10/12/2010

Actually, Jesus told disciples to sell their cloaks and buy swords. You really should read more carefully.....

[LatteSippingElitist]

10:12 PM on 10/12/2010

And Jesus reduced the whole of the law to two principles: love your God with all your heart, and LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF. Nothing about 'arm yourself to the gills in anticipation of the shooting of someone trying to steal your bike.'

Oh, and turning the other cheek. You do know where that phrase comes from?

The idea that you can get a consistent narrative of Jesus' teaching that fits with gunnut philosophy is just insane. The gunnuttery who claim Christ are the biggest frauds going.