• Sarah Palin is a full supporter of the right to keep and
bear arms as stated in the Constitution. In her own words, "I am
a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association, I support
our Constitutional right to bear arms and am a proponent of gun
safety programs for Alaska's youth." 

• Sarah Palin has been a hunting and fishing enthusiast
from the age of ten when she shot her first rabbit.  She learned
hunting and fishing skills from her father and describes the
sports as her hobbies. Palin herself has commented that her
freezer is full of wild game.

• Being the lifelong member of NRA, Palin supports the
campaign to end the ban on handguns that had been in place for
more than three decades.

• Palin vehemently opposes restrictions on access to
firearms. Palin, as Governor of Alaska, signed a multi-state
amicus brief, part of which reads as follows: "The Framers were
understandably wary of standing armies and the powers of a
potentially oppressive government ... The introductory clause [of
the Second Amendment], properly understood, confirms the primary
benefit of the operational clause -- a citizenry capable of
defending its rights by force, when all other means have failed,
against any future oppression."
		

• Mike Huckabee strongly supports the right to bear arms
and opposes restrictions on access to firearms.

• "My position on the Second Amendment to the Constitution
is as clear for me as the position held by most journalists
toward the 1st Amendment. While I do not consider myself a "gun
nut," I proudly own a variety of firearms and enjoy hunting as
well as sports shooting. But even if I were not a hunter or did
not enjoy shooting, I would still be a firm believer in the 2nd
Amendment right of Americans to own firearms for self-protection
and as a matter of principle."

• Huckabee also explained the rationale behind his stance:
"There are 700,000 physicians in the US and the number of
accidental deaths caused by them per year is 120,000, making the
accidental death rate per physician 17%. Using the same logic,
there are about 80 million gun owners, and the number of
accidental gun deaths per year among all age groups is 1,500. The
same calculation reveals the number of accidental deaths per gun
owner to be 0.00188%. In other words, statistically, doctors are
approximately 9,000 more times more dangerous than gun owners.
Yet, I hear no one suggesting we ban doctors."

• Huckabee has his views on the issue of 'Castle
Doctrine', a legislation which delineates the person's right to
"stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including
deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to
do so to prevent death or great bodily harm." Huckabee adds,
"Personally, I think it?s the way it ought to be. We ought to
have the right to protect ourselves."