Presidential candidate Ted Cruz says Americans need guns in case they need to shoot the government

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/16/1378228/-Presidential-candidate-Ted-Cruz-says-Americans-need-guns-in-case-they-need-to-shoot-the-government?detail=email

Sen. Ted Cruz goes full LaPierre:

"The 2nd Amendment to the Constitution isn't for just protecting hunting rights, and it's not only to safeguard your right to target practice. It is a Constitutional right to protect your children, your family, your home, our lives, and to serve as the ultimate check against governmental tyranny -- for the protection of liberty," Cruz wrote to supporters in a fundraising email on Thursday, under the subject line "2nd Amendment against tyranny."

This "insurrectionist" argument, as Second Amendment expert and UCLA law professor Adam Winkler calls it, is popular among passionate gun owners and members of the National Rifle Association. But major party candidates for president don't often venture there.

Indeed. Relatively few lawmakers are fans of the notion that our guns exist in case everyday American citizens decide they need to start murdering government officials. It is a theory most popular among lunatics and people on FBI watch lists, though the NRA embrace of this central doctrine of the far-right militia movement has given it new prominence. This speaks, however, more to the retooling of the now fully conspiracy-addled NRA into the overt political arm of that militia movement than it does to any new mainstream embrace of the theory.

Which is why Ted Cruz so far finds himself rather alone on this particular party plank, with other potential presidential candidates wanting nothing to do with it.

[Sen. Lindsey Graham] demurred. "I'm not looking for an insurrection. I'm looking to defeat Hillary," he said. "We're not going to out-gun her."

Cruz appears to have another agenda aside from president, he spits out the red meat like a mother bird to it's baby's but his baby's are not half of the electorate and cannot assure him a victory so what is he really planning he alienates the party with such outrageous ploys as shutting down the gov't 24 billion taxpayer dollars, while various other republican "committees run up millions in "investigations over and over the same thing to no joy.  his name will definitely make it in the books Dr. Seuss or history the tea people no longer have that despicable panache it use to so what is is plan can it be as simple as perpetual 15 mins. till 2016???  does he understand why the old west had banned guns in towns and cities "if you ignore the past you are destined to repeat it"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-winkler/did-the-wild-west-have-mo_b_956035.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Santayana