Make no bones about it, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum thinks gun owners make the United States a safer place.
Santorum appeared on CBS’ Face the Nation on Sunday morning, where he discussed his visit to the National Rifle Association’s yearly convention and Georgia’s recent legislation that allows concealed carry permit holders to take their weapons with them in more places across the state, including airports. Face the Nation’s Bob Schieffer asked if that was a good idea.
“You know, I think a — I said this at the NRA — I think a well-armed family is a safe family, a well-armed America is a safer America,” Santorum responded.
Santorum pointed to incidents where gun owners stopped crimes from happening because they had their firearms with them on the scene. He refuted Schieffer’s claim that bad people might then be able to take an AK-47 to an airport, pointing out that people with designs to perpetrate a crime aren’t stopped by laws anyway.
“No, I don’t think this is going to do anything to encourage some bad guy to cause harm in an airport, but it’s going to create an opportunity that if something bad maybe does happen in an airport, maybe someone will be there to be able to stop it,” Santorum said.
Not giving up on his point, Schieffer asked if the nation is headed back to the days of the OK Corral where everyone carries a gun. Santorum laughed slightly, then called the view that guns should be taken away from ordinary citizens to prevent crimes “wrong-headed.”
