By Chad D. Baus

The Politico.com is reporting that Fred Thompson is looking to gun owners to deliver a high-profile victory to boost his presidential campaign.

The article observes that Second Amendment advocates have struggled to find a champion of their own in the Republican presidential primary field, and says that with the Jan. 19 South Carolina primary fast approaching, gun owners appear to be lining up behind their ally, Thompson.

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By Greg Perry

Not everybody reading this carries a gun. Several reasons exist for most freedom-loving Americans to still be disarmed.

Reason for Not Carrying a Gun #1: Your Locale

You live in a state where carrying a weapon is not permitted.

Why do you still live there?

You’re almost complicit in whatever danger comes your way. Move. Let your state fend for itself and it will die out. Once you leave, only the bad guys will have guns and they’ll shoot each other; the liberals won’t marry or have babies so they’ll die out; no productive citizens will be left to steal money from to give to non-workers so illegals and freeloaders will die out; eventually it will become a barren wasteland that good citizens can reclaim some day.

Fantasy? Yes, but only because the good people still living there would rather acquiesce in the loss of their freedoms than move to a safer state. If you remain in a state where carrying a weapon is not permitted, but you fear the government more than you love your family, you’ll remain unarmed and you keep living there.

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