McCain thinks owning guns is more important then freedom of speech

Well, that seems to be the case, if you look at his official site. Take a guess-either the First of Second Amendment-gets its own issue page. Under the 'issues' tag, down near the bottom...

Protecting Second Amendment Rights

John McCain believes that the right of law abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is a fundamental, individual Constitutional right that we have a sacred duty to protect. We have a responsibility to ensure that criminals who violate the law are prosecuted to the fullest, rather than restricting the rights of law abiding citizens. Gun control is a proven failure in fighting crime. Law abiding citizens should not be asked to give up their rights because of criminals - criminals who ignore gun control laws anyway.

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Assault Weapons

John McCain opposes restrictions on so-called "assault rifles" and voted consistently against such bans. Most recently he opposed an amendment to extend a ban on 19 specific firearms, and others with similar characteristics.

Because, in order to defend yourself, you definitely need a gun that can fire 200 rounds a minute.

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Banning Ammunition

John McCain believes that banning ammunition is just another way to undermine Second Amendment rights. He voted against an amendment that would have banned many of the most commonly used hunting cartridges on the spurious grounds that they were "armor-piercing."

Wow. I never that law-abiding citizens needed armour piecing rounds to take down common burglars.

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The Confiscation of Firearms After an Emergency

John McCain opposes the confiscation of firearms from private citizens, particularly during times of crisis or emergency. He voted in favor of an amendment sponsored by Senator David Vitter prohibiting such confiscation.

I totally agree. What possible harm could a population of suspicious, fearful and all-round scared sh*tless citizens armed to the teeth with military grade weapons do in a crisis?

Is anybody else a bit weirded out by the American Right's obsessive love of machines that were invented as a quicker way of killing people? You'd think that, given how much the conservatives love talking about being a nation of freedom, beacon of hope, etc etc, they'd be just a little concerned with Bush wiretapping Americans, locking up Australian citizens for years on end with no trial, the religious right doing everything they can to turn America into a 14th century theocracy...but clearly that will never happen if we have our guns. That's precisely why every so-called 'Western democracy', excluding United States of Jesusland America, have all turned into ruthless dictatorships because the citizens didn't have guns...except for the fact that they haven't.

I don't know about John, but I feel much safer in a country where almost nobody has guns, then in a country where almost everybody does.