Oh, bless your heart South Carolina.

South Carolina Republican Congressman (you know what’s coming, don’t you?) Ralph Norman pulled out his .38 caliber Smith and Wesson at a town hall meeting with his constituents and announced, “I’m not going to be a Gabby Giffords.”

Tasteless sumbitch.  He must have stayed awake for days and smoked a pound of synthetic weed to come up with something that mean.

And he thinks just waving that gun around will keep someone from sneaking up behind him or shooting him from a window or mowing him and everybody around him down because he’s, by gawd, armed and dangerous.

If anyone walked into the diner and started shooting, Norman told the attendees, he would be able to protect them because of his gun.

“I don’t mind dying, but whoever shoots me better shoot well or I’m shooting back,” he told The Post and Courier.

If it’s all the same to you, Congressman, how ’bout protecting us with laws that keep military weapons out of the hands of crazy people.  Your silly little handgun may give you a feeling of false security and make your winkie feel bigger, but it’s not gonna help me none at all.  Nor, truth be known, anybody in the diner, either.

Thanks to Sarah for the heads up.