Tennessee State Rep. Joe Carr is one of this year’s crop of Tea Party candidates set to challenge Republicans in Congress who they deem too moderate – in Carr’s case, Senator Lamar Alexander.

Carr explained his approach to governing in an interview in May with radio host Michael DelGiorno (at that point, Carr was planning to challenge U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais). Carr told DelGiorno that issues like abortion rights and gun rights “really aren’t that difficult” because “for guys like you and I, we understand why the right to an abortion is an abomination, because it’s the principle of life. So, the issue takes care of itself.”

Carr added that the issue of gun rights is also simple because the Bill of Rights just “enumerates the inaliable rights given us by God.”

Earlier this year, Carr sponsored a radical “nullification” bill that would make it a crime to enforce federal gun laws in Tennessee.