In Iowa, Rick Perry to the opportunity during his pheasant hunting trip with Congressman Steve King to wax poetically about firearms and hunting.
“As long as I’ve got memory, I’ve had something to hunt with,” Perry said Saturday. “It was a long love affair with a boy and his gun that turned into a man and his gun, and then it turned into a man and his son and his daughter and their guns.”
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Perry was photographed without a firearm, but was dressed in hunting gear as his spoke to the press.
Perry talked about hunting as part of an American family tradition.
“I wish my son and my daughter were here with us today,” he said. “They would truly enjoy this, but from my perspective that’s part of America is walking across that hillside with one of your children hunting whatever it might be, being able to teach the safety, being able to teach the use of firearms, respect them and obviously the ability to protect yourself and your family if that’s required and to know those skills and that very important part of protecting America and defending the second amendment.”
