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02-27-2015, 04:00 PM
Rand Paul: GOP needs to care about more than gun rights
By STEPHANIE CONDON
February 27, 2015, 2:15 PM
The Republican Party needs to prove it values rights like freedom of speech and the right to a speedy trial as much as it values gun rights, Rand Paul said Friday.
"We do a great job defending the Second Amendment, and everybody knows that," the Kentucky senator and potential presidential candidate said at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). "But we have to defend the whole Bill of Rights."
"To defend the Second amendment, you have to defend the Fourth Amendment," he continued. "You need the First Amendment to protect the Second Amendment... The Fifth, the Sixth -- we should have speedy trials in our country."
Paul cited the case of Kalief Browder, an African-American teenager accused of a crime who spent three years in jail without even getting a trial. While behind bars, he tried to commit suicide several times.
Browder "lives in that 'other America' that Martin Luther King talked about," Paul said.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rand-paul-gop-needs-to-care-about-more-than-gun-rights/
By STEPHANIE CONDON
February 27, 2015, 2:15 PM
The Republican Party needs to prove it values rights like freedom of speech and the right to a speedy trial as much as it values gun rights, Rand Paul said Friday.
"We do a great job defending the Second Amendment, and everybody knows that," the Kentucky senator and potential presidential candidate said at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). "But we have to defend the whole Bill of Rights."
"To defend the Second amendment, you have to defend the Fourth Amendment," he continued. "You need the First Amendment to protect the Second Amendment... The Fifth, the Sixth -- we should have speedy trials in our country."
Paul cited the case of Kalief Browder, an African-American teenager accused of a crime who spent three years in jail without even getting a trial. While behind bars, he tried to commit suicide several times.
Browder "lives in that 'other America' that Martin Luther King talked about," Paul said.
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read more:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rand-paul-gop-needs-to-care-about-more-than-gun-rights/