Norris:Gun Owners Must Vote

Back in the day, action movie star Chuck Norris couldn’t escape adoring fans asking him for tips on how to fend off an attacker or how to take out eight opponents with a single roundhouse kick.

Now, it’s all about “the facts,” those “Chuck Norris Facts” that have become Internet legend (example: “There is no chin behind Chuck Norris’s beard. There is only another fist”).

So, when Norris made an appearance at the National Rifle Association’s convention in Charlotte on Friday, he heard just as much about the facts as he did, say, gun racks.

“People have been telling me facts all day, today,” Norris told POLITICO late last week. “I hear these new ones all the time. I’m thinking, ‘How in the world do they think of all these things?’”

But Norris took to the NRA convention with a clear message: Register, or else.

“Fifty percent of hunters and self-identified gun owners are not registered to vote, and that’s not going to help us in November,” he said.

Norris made it clear how he’ll be voting in the fall.

“With President Obama really against gun rights, I’m very, very concerned,” said Norris. “He has a certain ideology that we should be like Great Britain — no guns. … I’m just a concerned citizen and I’m just concerned about the direction our country is heading and I’d love to see some way for us to be able to maintain the Constitution the way it is. The Constitution is not a living document. It means and it says what it means,” he said.

“If we don’t get gun owners to vote in November, then we have no one to blame but ourselves,” he continued. “If we’re just apathetic and we say that whatever happens will happen, then it’s not going to be good for the future of our country. I’m really concerned about my kids and my grandchildren and I want them to have a country that they can grow up in and be proud of and, given the direction that we’re going in now, that’s not happening.”-[source]