Fun With Guns: Hey, The Boss Says Okay Edition
Republican Rep. Tom Marino, said to be the most conservative congressman from Pennsylvania, has a press secretary.
No, scratch that. Had a press secretary.
Ryan Shucard had a rotten morning. He’s been charged with a felony.
Shucard entered the southeast door of Cannon with the weapon. The Smith & Wesson 9mm and magazine were found during the search required for entry into the building, according to Schneider. People entering Cannon, including those with staff identification badges, like Shucard, are required to step through metal detectors and place bags on the belt of an X-Ray machine.
Yeah, Marino is not a fan of gun control.
Thanks to Sharon for the heads up.
What part of ‘well regulated’ does he not understand?
1That ol’ boy is dumb enough to work for Louie Gohmert.
2He’s been charged with carrying a pistol without a license. Doesn’t that mean that if he’d had a license it would have been okay to haul it into a House office building?
People who lug their metal pacifiers into places like this because they didn’t remember it was in their bag worry me.
3Bingo, Rhea! Love this line from the many ‘responsible’ gun owners, “I forgot” same dimwitted idiots who ‘forget’ their children in hot cars and don’t secure their swimming pools.
Enough already with their lame excuses, we need a dumber than dumb law. Republicans want responsibility, so I’ll meet them more than halfway and not overfill prisons. Let’s make stupid a felony. Most child drowning accidents, gun accidents and hot car smothered child accidents are not accidents. Or, not something that would happen with competent people.
Water is an issue anyway, so for the failure to secure the pool idiots, drain and concrete at their expense. And, register them as child abusers so they cannot move on and repeat their felony stupidity.
Child left in a hot car? Ankle bracelet and public transportation, until the morons are way past their child bearing years. 70 sound good?
Gun dummy ammosexual dumbness resulting in injury? Equip them with ankle bracelets that can detect their presence within 100 yards of a gun, for life.
Not accidents. Preventable/avoidable/unnecessary deaths.
2014 Vote to protect all children. Blog, write your Congress varmints and take on the Fourth Estate and call them out for their complicity, too.
4You know what they say: Pennsylvania has Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, and in between, Alabama…I personally live on the edge of Alabama, but still with one foot in Philadelphia. This guy is terminally dumb. He deserves the felony. Send him back to Alabama, and may it be far from me.
5OK. Must admit. This is a staffer I don’t know and I work with a whole lot of them. It was major stooooopid to try to get a gun past security. And the statement from Marino’s office tells me that the Chief of Staff is taking his time before announcing that the guy is fired. Whatever Marino thinks of the 2nd A., he’s now got some explaining to do himself. Did he ask the staffer to do this? Was it some dumb ploy to stir up debate or whatever? And I can just imagine what his Congressional colleagues are asking him! Will be an interesting day when I get back to work on Monday.
6Interesting that politicians and their staffs so often “forget” that they have a firearm with them, or “inadvertently” carry it. It’s a weapon, not a lucky rock or a receipt from Hank’s BBQ. You don’t “inadvertently” do anything with a weapon. And yet they expect that an “Oops, sorry,” will work.
While someone who “inadvertently” has an ounce of pot…wow, you’d think they were carrying a loaded weapon and planning to shoot someone.
Was it some dumb ploy to stir up debate, as Maggie suggests? Certainly a lot of right-wingers are confrontational, especially about firearms. I think calling it a conspiracy would be reasonable…certainly, given the persons involved, more reasonable than claiming the President conspired to have a plane-ful of people shot down to deflect attention from the Border crisis.
7The building is called Cannon.
8Disgusting. PKM, one more thing: the people who “accidentally” carry loaded rifles/pistols/etc., “accidentally” leave children in locked cars with the windows up (I was frequently left in the car, but we could roll down the windows back then), or “accidentally” don’t child-proof their pools — well, their birth was likely an “accident,” too. I know, I know, that’s a lot of broken condoms, but how else to explain them?
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