Newt on guns
I like Newt Gingrich. He, like Fred Thompson, reminds me of a time when Republicans were cool. You know, back before they were just big spending democrats who happened to cater to the religious right instead of the coo-coo-banana left? Remember those days? I do.
Anyhoo, Newt on guns. He says the AWB was crap (he’s right) but citizens shouldn’t be allowed to own machine guns and tanks. Well, Newt, citizens can own both of those.
March 30th, 2007 at 9:51 am
Is still murmuring about running for president? I’d be shocked (pleasantly) if any presidential candidate came out in favor of my right to own heavy machine guns. But most definitely the line on what the second amendment protects is going to be drawn somewhere. It’ll be nice when the political debate of the day centers around whether I have a right to own heavy machine guns, or just light machine guns.
Much better than whether I have a right to have a rifle with a bayonet lug.
March 30th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
You know, back before they were just big spending democrats who happened to cater to the religious right instead of the coo-coo-banana left? Remember those days? I do.
I don’t, and we’re about the same age. I’m not sure those Republicans ever existed. Their power was always checked, is all. But they’ve been kowtowing to the Religious Right since Reagan, and they’ve always spent like drunken sailors, too; they just would rather spend on the military and corporate welfare than things like education and social welfare.
March 30th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
Ah, but at least in the 1990s, they talked the talk. Who knew they were such lying bastards?
March 31st, 2007 at 3:15 am
Hell, a lot of them still talk the talk, but still vote “Yea.”