Ronald Reagan was for gun control

[democrattotheend]

Someone dug this up on Twitter. It's an op ed that Reagan published in the New York Times (?!) in 1991. Kind of surprising, but I guess it makes sense.

It was on that day 10 years ago that a deranged young man standing among reporters and photographers shot a policeman, a Secret Service agent, my press secretary and me on a Washington sidewalk.

I was lucky. The bullet that hit me bounced off a rib and lodged in my lung, an inch from my heart. It was a very close call. Twice they could not find my pulse. But the bullet's missing my heart, the skill of the doctors and nurses at George Washington University Hospital and the steadfast support of my wife, Nancy, saved my life.

Jim Brady, my press secretary, who was standing next to me, wasn't as lucky. A bullet entered the left side of his forehead, near his eye, and passed through the right side of his brain before it exited. The skills of the George Washington University medical team, plus his amazing determination and the grit and spirit of his wife, Sarah, pulled Jim through. His recovery has been remarkable, but he still lives with physical pain every day and must spend much of his time in a wheelchair.

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/29/opinion/why-i-m-for-the-brady-bill.html

[Edweird]

1. He also gave illegal immigrants amnesty.

So was he a secret 'liberal' or are efforts to drive down wages and destroy the Bill Of Rights actually RW causes furthered by 'liberals'?

[Lasher]

2. I guess you're not a real Democrat unless you're just like Reagan.

And here I've been thinking my whole life that I am a Democrat. Go figure.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

3. Pretty frightening to think...

That Ronald Reagan would be considered a RINO and not able to get the nomination from today's Tea Partiers.

[Edweird]

4. It seems that's where we pretty much are these days.