The US senator tells the crowd at the 2010 NRA Annual Meetings in Charlotte, NC that America is now faced with two competing visions: one involves more freedom and less government, the other involves more government and less freedom. Senator John Thune of South Dakota won his Senate seat in 2004, when he made history by defeating a sitting Senate party leader for the first time in 52 years. He serves on the Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry Committee, the Armed Services Committee, the Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee, and the Small Business Committee.