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More Pro-2A Republicans Enter Race

Not that I've ever heard of him but... From the Logan Herald-Observer (IA):

John Cox, 51, is the former president of the Cook County Republican party and helped with Jack Kemp's presidential run in 1988. Currently sitting on the board of the USO and FireWorks for Kids Foundation, Cox is a CPA, lawyer and investment advisor who owns five companies that deal in real estate investments, accounting, law and brokerage.

He recently passed through Harrison County, Iowa - his second trip here in less than a year - and sat down with Publisher John Beaudoin to talk about his campaign and why he believes the Republican Party has lost its way.

Q. Where do you stand on gun control?

A. I am a lifetime member of the NRA. In every state that has enacted conceal-carry, the crime rate has gone down. I think gun control is a waste of time. Washington, D.C. has the best gun control laws and the highest crime rate. I want our resources to go to prosecute criminals.

By the way, since several of you have mentioned that Texas Congressman Ron Paul is in the running, here's a link to some of his thoughts including this:

"Gun control often serves as a gateway to tyranny. Tyrants from Hitler to Mao to Stalin have sought to disarm their own citizens, for the simple reason that unarmed people are easier to control. Our Founders, having just expelled the British army, knew that the right to bear arms serves as the guardian of every other right. This is the principle so often ignored by both sides in the gun control debate. Only armed citizens can resist tyrannical government."
--Ron Paul

Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) recently introduced a bill that would prevent the use of American tax dollars from being used by the United Nations to limit or prohibit the Second Amendment right to bear arms for U.S. citizens.

"The Right to Keep and Bear Arms Act of 2003," or H.R. 3125, was drafted out of a concern that Second Amendment rights would be infringed upon by international forces, such as the U.N.

Paul states in the text of the bill that "2,000,000 largely unarmed people are killed yearly by oppressive genocidal governments throughout the world."

The bill itself details several examples of U.N. attempts to restrict gun rights and to derail the U.S. Constitution since the early 1990s.