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2013-03-10 Home Front: Culture Wars

Ooopsie, Gun Control Proponent Caught Buying AR15 And Pistol, Now Says He Wasn't Going To Keep it

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Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-03-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Sorry, only one "Profile in Courage" award per family.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-03-10 01:42|| 2013-03-10 01:42|| Front Page Top

#2 But "Profiles in Chutzpah"? We're givin' 'em away!

Posted by badanov 2013-03-10 03:08|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2013-03-10 03:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Mark Kelly is a Navy pilot with 375 carrier landings, 39 combat missions during Desert Storm, a DFC, then a Space Shuttle pilot and commander. And then his wife got damn near got her brains blown out, in part because leftists destroyed the mental health system in the 1960s. He's obviously got some cognitive dissonance, for which I'd cut him a a lot of slack.

Posted by RandomJD 2013-03-10 09:36|| 2013-03-10 09:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Rgr. Slack, cut.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2013-03-10 10:07|| 2013-03-10 10:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Congress should act to limit the sale of high capacity magazines, which are not needed for hunting or self-defense, but have proven very lethal. He said the purpose of an "assault weapon" is "to kill a lot of people very quickly and he lamented that such products were "too readily available."

First off Bub, its completely irrelevant what you, Senator Feingold, or anyone else thinks I need. Personally, I dont need a massive catapult. But if anyone wants one to chuck a pumpkin half a mile then god bless. What is relevant is there are currently millions of sporting rifles and tens of millions of 10+ magazines in circulation. And only a tiny minute fraction of those guns or magazines have ever been used in the commission of a crime much less a mass slaughter. This proves, beyond any doubt, there is a non-nefarious or common purpose for such items. Second, anyone with even the most casual of knowledge of firearms understands that so-called "assault weapons" are simply small-caliber semi-automatic rifles. Actually, these guns are less lethal than many of the big game hunting rifles you may find in grandpas cabinet. And with all due reverence, do you really think the horror (or body count) of the recent mass shootings wouldve been any less if the shooters used a pump action shotgun with a pocket full of buckshot? You knowlike the one VP Joe Biden likes to pine about. And finally, what pisses me off is I was shopping for those two exact weapons yesterday and the prices in last two years have fuckin sky rocketed! If only I was a former astronaut with a former congresswoman wife I could have afforded to leave with more than just a box of shells.

Posted by DepotGuy 2013-03-10 11:06|| 2013-03-10 11:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Only takes 1 'close to home' incident to make a convert. In this case, very close. I expect he also has a new carry permit and will NOT be found unarmed in public.

Posted by Skidmark 2013-03-10 11:16|| 2013-03-10 11:16|| Front Page Top

#7 They must be hard up for cash. Usually they simply get hired guns to protect them from the common rabble.

Posted by CrazyFool 2013-03-10 11:23|| 2013-03-10 11:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Senator John Kerry: 4 months in Vietnam, service in the Brown Water Navy.....Silver Star, Bronze Star, and three Purple Hearts, plus a wounded VC kill with a Colt-1911.

Man men have letters after their names and fancy stuff in attic footlockers. Hardly passes the so what test of relevancy. Just my two farthings worth.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-03-10 11:30|| 2013-03-10 11:30|| Front Page Top

#9 F*ck cutting him slack. He'd deny you the same weapon he feels he needs. Does that make him or his wife more important than you? You bet

Posted by Frank G 2013-03-10 11:36|| 2013-03-10 11:36|| Front Page Top

#10 I don't cut anyone slack. You walk the talk or you are nothing more than a goddamn hypocrite. Either you are for gun control or you ain't.

Posted by DarthVader 2013-03-10 11:49|| 2013-03-10 11:49|| Front Page Top

#11 I'll cut him some slack. If Kelly and wife stayed with friends and family in D.C. during their Hill anti-gun testimony, and pocketed the Per Diem, I have no problem with him spending it on guns and ammo. There, I said it!

Posted by Besoeker 2013-03-10 11:54|| 2013-03-10 11:54|| Front Page Top

#12 No slack. He's attacking the Constitution he once swore to defend.

Posted by Nero 2013-03-10 12:16|| 2013-03-10 12:16|| Front Page Top

#13 I'm with Darth. Backs down when he gets caught by the anti-self-defense whiny-assed media (who used his wounded wife to advance their non-Constitutional agenda, and slobbered all over the shooter, while not giving a rat's ass about her and the other victims).

Man up, Mr. Kelly. Tell them you bought the firearms, as is your RIGHT, and they can go f*ck themselves and MYODB.

Posted by Barbara 2013-03-10 12:17|| 2013-03-10 12:17|| Front Page Top

#14 Well said Barbara.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-03-10 12:19|| 2013-03-10 12:19|| Front Page Top

#15 So, how do you REALLY feel, Barbara????

Posted by USN,Ret. 2013-03-10 12:53|| 2013-03-10 12:53|| Front Page Top

#16 Barb is quite cordial compared to what needs to be said.

I don't care if the whole can of alphabet soup follows this person's name. He is a liar who would have you DQ'd from your right to have firearms for being a liar. It is the immoral, small souls who create the problems and now he is armed, the very type of person he rails against. Wasn't going to keep them, what the hell, who was he going to give them to then?

And just as a point of order, if a person is going to qualify and emotive a tool by calling it an assault, one must concede that there is the opposite side of the, its shadow, a defense.

And if that isn't clear, when some peacocking gun grabber blabbers about making laws to disarm you while arming themselves, what other conclusion could a person come to; actually driven to that conclusion.

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-03-10 13:52|| 2013-03-10 13:52|| Front Page Top

#17 Regarding cutting slack. A lot of folks have been cutting McCain slack because of his heroic record and instead of going away he's gotten worse. Perhaps cutting slack isn't always helpful and when someone acts like a duffus they need to be hammered down and mocked until they see the error of their ways. At that point they can have slack and forgiveness but not before.

Posted by rjschwarz 2013-03-10 14:00|| 2013-03-10 14:00|| Front Page Top

#18 if he's buying it just to give it away to someone else, he's a classic "straw buyer" and should be prosecuted. Didn't think of that, Mark, you lying douchebag, didja?

Posted by Frank G 2013-03-10 14:16|| 2013-03-10 14:16|| Front Page Top

#19 Cutting slack is for the guy venting at the bar, or who hasn't golfed in a while.

Conceding slack to somebody who would make critical decisions about you and your family is immoral. Bob Dole has a bum arm, I get that, but if the man himself knocked on my door and lectured me that he gave up his arm so I would not have to arm myself I'd throw the man himself, then throw him again.

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-03-10 14:22|| 2013-03-10 14:22|| Front Page Top

#20 Those are some good points and righteous rants - I take it back. If Giffords had been hit by a drunk driver, he wouldn't be out there agitating to ban cars, or meekly surrendering his new car to the authorities after getting caught buying one. A discussion perhaps he and the missus should have had before using their visibility to promote an indefensible position.

Posted by RandomJD 2013-03-10 14:43|| 2013-03-10 14:43|| Front Page Top

#21 If Giffords had been hit by a drunk driver, he wouldn't be out there agitating to ban cars

Exactly the reason we know all of this leftist gun babbling is about control, not firearms safety.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-03-10 16:24|| 2013-03-10 16:24|| Front Page Top

#22 Oh, I don't know about that. He sort of seems like the type who likes the attention. He is a pilot and an astronaut after all.

He probably would try to ban cars, or drunks if his wife had been hit by a drunk driver, just for the spotlight.

And worse, he has never argued that He shouldn't have rights to carry a gun, only that you shouldn't. After all, he is a fighter pilot, and an astronaut, unlike you.

He gave you and I no quarter in his assault on our rights up until now, and he should expect none from us as we defend those rights. Therefore I say, "Thank you for your prior service Mr. Kelly. Thanks for letting your hubris beclown yourself. Please keep your big red clown nose in the spotlight as long as you like."

Posted by rammer 2013-03-10 17:47|| 2013-03-10 17:47|| Front Page Top

#23 Congress should act to limit the sale of high capacity magazines...

More people die on the highways. How about governors on cars that limit speeds below 80mph? Not that it would effect much of the DUI kills, but then again, neither will magazine capacity limits effect psych impaired individuals who steal their means of killing.

The high capacity is to keep the government in line, not hunting or everyday break-ins. That's what the founders fully intended in their writing of the Constitution, to which Mr.Kelly took an oath to uphold at one time.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-03-10 18:30|| 2013-03-10 18:30|| Front Page Top

#24 Wow. Proud and impressed by y'all. Keeping the Rant in Rantburg.

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