A Chicken in Every Pot and a Gun in Every Home

What's the deal? At a pro-gun rally in PA state capital building in Harrisburg last week, gun-rights proponents unfurled a banner saying that State Rep. Angel Cruz (D., Phila.) should be hanged for introducing legislation that would require people to register their guns and pay a $10 fee to the state police. See Gun-rights banner at Capitol draws outcry over its language.

WTF? Why should Cruz be hung from a tree for promoting gun control? Why shouldn't he be shot? What's the matter with these gun rights people? That's just carrying racism too far.

Oh well, at least some of these gun nuts know their place. Another state representative, Jewel Williams, received a threatening email from a man Williams identified as a resident of Allentown, who said Williams should be shot while in the Capitol. In a follow up piece, the Inquirer reports,
Gun-control lawmaker threatened:

For protection, State Rep. Jewell Williams packs a .38-caliber revolver in his North Philadelphia district and while traveling to Harrisburg.

But a threatening e-mail he received yesterday has him considering a further precaution: dusting off an old bulletproof vest stored for the last seven years in his closet.

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"Now that I hear this attitude of people recommending lynching, I'll probably be wearing my gun more and possibly wearing my bulletproof vest, because we now think we're being threatened," Williams, a former police officer, said yesterday at a news conference calling for tighter gun laws.

Williams, a Democrat, was among members of the Legislative Black Caucus who on Tuesday called on the state police to investigate the banner, believing it amounted to a terroristic threat against Cruz, the General Assembly's only Latino member.

Only in Pennsylvania would a gun control advocate also be a gun owner. There's only so far you can go with this gun control stuff.

In another gun story:

David Huckabee, a son of former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, was arrested on Thursday after trying to board an airliner with a loaded pistol, police said.

Huckabee, 26, was jailed after an X-ray of his carry-on bag revealed the weapon, identified in a police report as a Glock .40-caliber semi-automatic pistol containing eight live rounds of ammunition.

Presidential hopeful's son arrested in Ark. with gun.

Well, isn't this a travesty? Maybe the NRA should start protesting these unconstitutional laws banning guns on planes. After all, I'm sure that the inviolate 2nd Amendment right to bear arms applies to airspace in the friendly skies.

After all, it is the only Amendment that is absolute and not subject to any limitation or infringement. Don't want to get started on that slippery slope. Next thing you know, we might have civilized gun laws.

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