Representative Thomas Massie: The Only Politician In American With Guts
BY Herschel Smith
7 years, 2 months ago
But since the Las Vegas shooting, Massie has taken his Second Amendment support to a new level, setting himself apart from his Republican colleagues and even the NRA.
The Kentucky congressman, who holds a concealed carry permit and says he is generally armed when he’s his home state, has questioned whether bump stocks truly made last week’s shooting in Las Vegas more deadly.
“Needs to be discussed: Murderer probably could have fired more rounds conventionally instead of dealing with misfires caused by #bumpstocks,” Massie tweeted on Oct. 7.
He has castigated his GOP colleagues for suggesting they would be willing to consider a ban on such equipment.
“Obamacare repeal and tax reform can’t happen in 9 months, but now some GOP signaling they’re ready to immediately work on gun control?” he blasted in another Twitter message.
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Proposed “bump fire stock” ban is a red herring that would lead to ban of other firearms and accessories. See videohttps://t.co/e47eg9QcPN
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) October 5, 2017
“There are at least a dozen ways to make a semi-automatic firearm more quickly,” Massie told the Examiner. “There is no way to ban bump fire.”
Not surprisingly, gun-control advocates vehemently disagree.
“We’ve regulated machine guns in this country quite carefully for the last 80 years,” said Avery W. Gardiner, co-president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. “Why should an accessory that turns a gun into the functional equivalent of a machine gun not be regulated in the same way?”
Because it’s not a machine gun, and machine guns shouldn’t be regulated anyway.
As for representative Massie, he shows the way to do it. All you have to have is a soul, a little bit of guts, and a moral compass. Unfortunately that’s lacking in most politicians today.
Congratulations to representative Massie. We’re in your corner. Stay the course, and keep up the good fight. If the demons, gargoyles and pit vipers in Washington don’t listen to you, at least someone is listening, and He will judge them all one awful day.
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