Bobby Jindal: 'The left are bullies'

Gov. Bobby Jindal

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, one of the Republican Party's potential candidates for president, said "bullies" on the left will try to steamroll the Second Amendment if Americans don't take care.

He also said in an interview with Breitbart religious liberty has come under attack, and it's crucial for patriots to step forward and fight.

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"The Founding Fathers were smart enough to know that the American people need to have the right to bear arms for self-defense," he said. "They wrote the Second Amendment with the knowledge that a well-armed colonial citizenry had just defeated a tyrant and the most powerful army in the world, in the British army. So the most basic reason for the Second Amendment is our own self-defense."

He then said the Second Amendment was a tool to keep hunting free.

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"Third, even for those who many not own a gun themselves, like I do, they should understand that this is an important liberty right,' Jindal said, Breitbart reported. "That the right to keep and bear arms is part of our greater liberty which demonstrates that the Founding Fathers trusted the American people, not the government."

And his warning?

"If we let those on the left come after one of our liberty rights, they will come after them all," he said. "So we see there are those on the left who will come after our Second Amendment right and who are also coming after our First Amendment religious liberty rights, they are coming after our freedom of speech and freedom of association rights."

Jindal faulted the left for an attitude of "they know how to live our lives better than we do."