Why Condoleezza Rice supports RKBA
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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/11/20/213731.shtml

Saturday, Nov. 20, 2004 9:36 p.m. EST
Condi: Why I Support the Second Amendment

Secretary of State nominee Dr. Condoleezza Rice is a big supporter of
the second amendment, a commitment cultivated during her days growing
up in Bull Conner’s Birmingham, Alabama, when the shotgun wielded by
her father was often the only thing that stood between her family and
the Ku Klux Klan.

In 1963, racial violence was “turning her hometown into ‘Bombingham’
as Alabama?s governor George Wallace fought a federal court order to
integrate the city?s schools,” writes Rice biographer Antonia Felix.
In excerpts of her book “The Condoleezza Rice Story,” reprinted in
the London Sunday Times, Felix recounts:

“With the bombings came marauding groups of armed white vigilantes
called ‘nightriders,’ who drove through black neighborhoods shooting
and starting fires. [Condi's father] John Rice and his neighbors
guarded the streets at night with shotguns.

“The memory of her father out on patrol lies behind Rice?s opposition
to gun control today. Had those guns been registered, she argues,
Bull Connor would have had a legal right to take them away, thereby
removing one of the black community?s only means of defense.”

“I have a sort of pure second amendment view of the right to bear
arms,” said the future Secretary of State.