The Gun Blogs

Rudy explained his opposition to things like the line item veto with “strict constructionism”. He was then cornered on his gun control position, which amounts to the racist nonsense about “what works for y’all white folk in Montana and Texas don’t work for us folks beset by all those inner city types”. He then goes on to say that his strict constructionism leads him to believe that the 2A say exactly what it sounds like it says, and that it guarantees the rights of Americans to own firearms…but that at the same time it should fundamentally be up to the individual states to decide gun policy. Rudy’s trying to have his cake in the states that aren’t in the upper east coast and still get to eat it in the conservative south, midwest, and western states. His position reads like sniveling efforts at placating the progun vote by saying he favors an individual RKBA yet simultaneously winking at DC, NY, MD, NJ, CA, MA, IL, and CT by saying “hey, if you guys wanna ban all those pesky guns…that’s cool with me.” If it doesn’t infuriate you as a gun owner that he thought he could slide that crap past you, somebody needs to put some smelling salts under your nose, and that right soon. Pretty sure a strict constructionist reading of the 2A does NOT including letting states enact whatever the hell confiscatory, authortarian gun control laws they fancy and abridging the RKBA just because it suits them. Screw you Rudy for even dreaming for a second that we might be schnookered by that crap.

Wallace didn’t let him get away so easily–he put his foot down and called him out on his effort to have it both ways. Wallace pointed out that Rudy favored a draconian gun control policy (not the least of which was blaming other states for NY’s gun problem, which we’ve shown here to be baloney) that included federal-level gun registration and policy making that superceded state law. In short, Rudy’s flip flopped, bigtime. He once tried to export NYC’s “only rich and connected people and agents of the state get to have guns, the rest of you can get buggered” policy to the federal level…but now he wants you to think he values the RKBA at the individual level–unless of course you happen to live in a state that doesn’t share that value.