HYPOCRISY ALERT

By now, you’ve all heard about Mark Kelly, former astronaut and the husband of Gabby Giffords, who was grievously brain-damaged in the mass murder spree by the madman Loughner in Tucson.  After establishing his territory as a high-profile opponent of “assault rifles” and “high capacity magazines,” he was observed and photographed buying an AR15 to go with his new 1911 .45 pistol.

As soon as he was “outed,” he claimed he was doing it to show how easily such armament could be acquired. (Like it wasn’t already legal for law-abiding people to buy those guns.) He added that he planned to give it to the Tucson Police.

This strikes me as right up there with, “Your Honor, I only bought that heroin and cocaine to get it off the street and show the world the scope of our drug problem…and then I was gonna turn it over to the DEA.”

David Codrea, one of our most indefatigable fighters for gun owners’ civil rights, deconstructs Kelly’s lame excuse here.

And of course, the gun control propaganda machine mainstream media comes to Kelly’s aid. For him, it’s not an “assault weapon,” it’s just a different kind of rifle. Dissected by Dave Workman, here.

Whew.  It’s chilly out today, but I feel an urge to go to the shooting range nonetheless.

It should be at least one place that’s free from blatant hypocrisy.

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