Saw this story yesterday. Apparantly Mark Kelly decided to go to Diamondback Police Supply in Tuscon to buy an AR-15 and a 1911. It is up all over the place so I am reasonably sure this is legitimate.
I sincerely felt for this couple. They are by all measures good people who has a terrible thing happen to them. For goodness sake the woman got shot in the head. If they (as it seems) started to have different feelings about guns and gun control I can sort of respect that. Don't agree with them but can at least respect the position.
However if he is so violently anti gun why should one of those evil mean guns live in their house. Shouldn't he get a double barreled shotgun or something? Tactical expert Joe Biden says they are easier to aim than an AR-15 anyway. This is the classic guns for me but not for thee of the gun banners.
I sincerely felt for this couple. They are by all measures good people who has a terrible thing happen to them. For goodness sake the woman got shot in the head. If they (as it seems) started to have different feelings about guns and gun control I can sort of respect that. Don't agree with them but can at least respect the position.
However if he is so violently anti gun why should one of those evil mean guns live in their house. Shouldn't he get a double barreled shotgun or something? Tactical expert Joe Biden says they are easier to aim than an AR-15 anyway. This is the classic guns for me but not for thee of the gun banners.
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I like this part: "I don't have possession of it yet but I'll be turning it over to the Tucson PD when I do."
Yes, I'm sure. He just stopped in and decided to drop $1,000+ on a rifle to hand it over to the PD. Sure. Right. Uh, huh.
Who in their right mind would sell him a gun, for that matter?
I bought a couple of "assault rifles" in Arizona a few years ago and was able to take them home immediately after payment-- and I was a non-resident of the State of AZ. What gives?
The way things are it might be that he ordered one or was waiting for one to show up.
Ryan, in the article, it states he saw a used AR and bought it too. It was in store/stock. I do not understand why he did not take it home.
That said, Mr Kelly is an example of many people arguing for more gun control. How many of these people start their spiel with, "I support the second ammendment, 'BUT'. . ."
How many of Doomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns are felons? The guns aren't illegal, just possession of them by certian people.
How many of these 'elected ones' know little to nothing about firearms but try to make laws regarding them. ("Black" is scary. Sounds racist to me.)
Both the ignorance and the hypocracy of some(many) of our 'leaders' is truly amazing.
DRJ
DRJ, Could well be.
I'd counsel throttling back.
He's the congresswoman's "wife", so he's not one of our "leaders". This is a bit like picking on Sarah Palin's kids.
He's also an astronaut, so clearly, NASA's standards still haven't improved since the crazy lady stalker astronaut in Depends kidnapping fiasco a few years back. If NASA's looking for someplace to cut a little money, it seems he could use a transfer to the private sector with all due haste, given his lack of common sense or integrity. Let him live off his wife's disability.
And he's a lying jackass. Then again, he's married to a Democrat congresswoman, so that's probably redundant piling on too.
On the other hand, if he'd simply had the wits to say that he bought the weapons so that he could plug the next sumbitch who took a potshot at his wife, folks'd be carrying him around on their shoulders, and running him for the next NRA Board of Directors election.
Given his demonstrated intelligence, it's only a matter of weeks before we read about him shooting himself in the foot, literally and figuratively.
My suggestion is to quit kicking the handicapped kids on the bus, and leave this dingaling alone. At the rate things are going, I suspect the folks at the Darwin Awards will be putting the entire family on speed dial in short order.
Aesop, If I recall he has testified in Congress in support of gun control. That makes him part of the conversation. If he were just doing his own thing and coming home to the wife at the end of the day I would not be writing this.
You make a good point. If he said good people need guns to protect their selves I would be cheering for him.
His wife seems like she was a nice enough lady and even now I can forgive her feelings about gun control though I disagree with them.
I know he's popped off publicly, but I ascribe that to taunting the cat with a feather until the bait was irresistable.
IMHO, and given past experience with relatives, from Martha Mitchell to Billy Carter to Netune Obama, it's best to just let gravity sort them out of the stream of life; circumstances will wedge the flotsam back into the cracks among the rocks where they belong.
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