Mitch McConnell Brings a Gun to CPAC

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Source: National Journal

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Mitch McConnell strode out onto the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday morning, packing heat.

The Senate Minority Leader finds himself in an odd position at CPAC. For one, he's the Republican leader in the Senate and stands to take over as the majority leader next year if some of the audience's favored candidates win control of blue seats in November.

But McConnell is also a five-term senator whose career has largely been characterized by the kind of earmarking that conservatives did away with following the tea-party wave of 2010. And he's facing a challenge from a tea party acolyte, albeit an underfunded one, in his home state of Kentucky this year.

It's almost no wonder that McConnell walked onto the stage this morning with a rifle in hand, which he quickly passed to Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, a hero among fiscal hawks. That moment marked the only time that the audience cheered loudly during McConnell's five minutes on stage.

Read more: http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/mitch-mcconnell-brings-a-gun-to-cpac-20140306

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Hey Look! That photo is a cross section of the GOP.

Old white male millionaires and lunatics with guns.

[Contrary1]

1. Can we get a :puke: icon that works in the reply title line?

That would sum up my opinion of these morons and save me time.

[rtracey]

2. that's a no no....

The District of Columbia prohibits carrying firearms, openly or concealed. (DC Code Ann. § 22-4504(a).)

Please arrest Mr. McConnell

thank you

[tofuandbeer]

6. Why do they get away with breaking the law like that?

Pisses me off!

[rtracey]

7. the same way

The same way David Gregory did when he brought a large capacity magazine on "Meet the Press" and nothing happened to him..

[PatrynXX]

13. To say nothing happened to him is silly

To be sure he came close to being arrested. Now Mitch no they won't blink an eye. However unlike the media elected officials must really follow the law. or they could be impeached. Hence why Issa almost got whipped for his illegal action yesterday course the GOP was having none of it.

[smokey775]

33. To say nothing that this wasn't even in DC,

it was in Maryland.

[former9thward]

21. The CPAC convention is in National Harbor, Maryland.

It is not in DC.

[tofuandbeer]

27. Thx!

[Contrary1]

10. This circus is being held in National Harbor, MD, which is south of DC

For what it's worth, Bon Jovi's “Livin' on a Prayer” played as the court jester came on stage waving the rifle.

An interesting and appropriate choice, given the Repub party of today.They should adopt it as their official theme song.

[NickB79]

22. Blackpowder muzzleloaders aren't legally firearms

Firearms laws don't apply to them, the same as they don't typically apply to paintball or BB guns.

[former9thward]

23. The convention is not in DC anyway.

It is in Maryland.

[Adrahil]

34. Yup. +1

[smokey775]

31. The laws concerning black powder muzzle loading firearms are in a class of their own.

They're exempt from background checks and can actually be mailed the the postal service, so I doubt he was in violation of DC law.

[santamargarita]

3. Well, we know he can't shoot his chin off.

[Contrary1]

5. I'm going to hell...

for laughing at your comment.

[MinneapolisMatt]

14. BWAHAHAHa!

You win the internet today.

[Judi Lynn]

29. Oh, god! I was thinking that, too!

Doesn't keep him from shooting off his mouth, repeatedly, however.

[tularetom]

8. It's a flintlock Kentucky rifle, big effin deal

Anybody over the age of 21 can walk into Cabela's and purchase a fully operational replica, no questions asked. If you're really good, you might be able to fire a shot every 45 seconds or so.

So I'm not sure what point he is trying to make by brandishing a perfectly legal firearm in front of an audience of paranoid yahoos. I doubt that anyone even among the nuttiest of anti gun nuts is proposing to make these guns illegal.

Of course I doubt if McConnell even knows that. And probably 90% of his idiot audience has never fired a gun either.

[Jerry442]

9. Looking at the video linked to in the National Journal article...

...it seems to me at least once, and possible as many as three times, that gun was aimed into the crowd.

Got gun safety?

[hrmjustin]

11. And Jesus Wept!

[Cali_Democrat]

12. Pathetic...nt

[James48]

15. He doesn't even know how to hold a rifle?

Give me a break!

[billh58]

16. This is what right-wing neoconservatives

do best: pretend to be "patriots" by threatening violence against other Americans while denying them the most basic of human rights and dignity. They wrap themselves in the flag, and hide behind their perverted interpretation of the Second Amendment.

McConnell and Coburn are representative of the bought-and-paid-for corrupt politicians which have been hand-picked by the NRA/ALEC/Koch Brothers/Fox News/Tea Party right-wing, anti-American, political machine.

[Javaman]

18. Aaaaand it's a flintlock...

this is the same thing as those teapart halfwits dressing up as "minutemen" to prove...I have no fucking idea what that proves.

[truthisfreedom]

19. One and done. If your powder's dry.

[VA_Jill]

20. But....

does the old fool know how to shoot it? Because he sure doesn't know how to hold it!

[SummerSnow]

24. using guns to please the Baggers.lol

[Blue Owl]

25. Elmer Fudd

n/t

[marble falls]

26. Shouldn't that ought to have been a blunderbuss?

[CherokeeDem]

28. Oh...

Just when I thought he couldn't embarrass Kentucky any more than he already has....

[BrotherIvan]

30. What for?

Was he afraid of the audience? Or does gun = cheer nowadays?

[KinMd]

32. McConnell video from CPAC