Mitt Romney's Vacuous Incoherence on Guns
While Mitt Romney is getting a lot of attention for the stumbling start to his European tour (new slogan: "I won't apologize for America ... I'm too busy apologizing for myself"
, his comments on gun laws merit a little more scrutiny for their awe-inspiring incoherence and vapidity.
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But I don't happen to believe that America needs new gun laws. A lot of what this young man did was clearly against the law. But the fact that it was against the law did not prevent it from happening.
Well, yes, a lot of what the shooter did was illegal, like shooting people. But the fact that shooting people is against the law did not prevent it from happening. So I guess by Romney's logic there's no point in outlawing shooting people?
The point that Romney is clearly missing is that a lot of what he did before committing murder was actually legal.
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Well this person shouldn't have had any kind of weapons and bombs and other devices and it was illegal for him to have many of those things already. But he had them. And so we can sometimes hope that just changing the law will make all bad things go away. It won't. Changing the heart of the American people may well be what's essential, to improve the lots of the American people.
Again, the guns were all legal. A Romney spokeswoman later tried to clean up his mess by saying he meant bombs when he referred to "weapons and bombs." Maybe legal guns aren't "weapons" in his view.
more:http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2012/07/26/mitt-romneys-vacuous-incoherence-on-guns