Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Good for that guy

Richard Lugar, invites a Teatard challenge by having the actual balls to do the right thing, as opposed to the right-thing.

Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) this weekend called on Congress to reinstate the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004.

9 comments:

Privatize the Profits! Socialize the Costs! said...

A good start.

And actually having those well regulated militias mentioned in the Second Amendment would be even better.

But I guess that idea's a non-starter, because it would touch the third rail of American politics--- unrestricted guns for everyone!

Call me a dangerous radical, but my opinion is that the nation should actually practice the very kind of gun control that the Founders intended.

Where are all the Constitution fetishists on this? Mysteriously silent...

Anonymous said...

And the Reich-wing screaming begins in 5...4...3...2......!

Major Woody said...

I'm with Privatize. In this case, I agree with the strict constitutionalists, and believe that the Founding Fathers wanted us to have unrestricted access to muzzle-loading blunderbusses. Assuming anything else goes beyond what they could have anticipated in their powdered-wigged noggins.

Athenawise said...

Or, as the Founding Fathers intended, the right to bear arms means everyone has the right to a set of bear's arms mounted on the wall.

(All I really need to know I learn on "Family Guy".)

DanF said...

I thought Lugar was safe from a tea bagger challenge given his popularity in Indiana, but I think this does him in.

pansypoo said...

a rational republican? we can't have that.

Privatize the Profits! Socialize the Costs! said...

I agree with the strict constitutionalists, and believe that the Founding Fathers wanted us to have unrestricted access to muzzle-loading blunderbusses. Assuming anything else goes beyond what they could have anticipated in their powdered-wigged noggins.

Thank you, Major Woody, for your friendly amendment to my motion!

pansypoo said...

muskets and dueling pistols.

Anonymous said...

Lugar the leader. First time in my recent memory a Republican proposed something intelligent and straight forward. And it wouldn't affect the national debt.
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