230.4 - Clown Award: Marco Rubio

Clown Award: Marco Rubio

So let's stay on the topic of guns and switch over to one of our regular features, the Clown Award, given as always for meritorious stupidity. And oh do we have a winner this time.

The Big Red Nose goes to the man who was once the GOPpers great Latino hope, Marco Rubio.

One of the bizarre aspects of our laws about guns is that if you are on the no-fly list because you are, at least supposedly, a suspected terrorist, you can't get on a plane. Now, I am no fan of these lists which are often based on flimsy evidence and by definition put restrictions of people based on suspicion rather than knowledge, but that's not the point here.The point is the lists exists and if you are on one you are suspected of a connection to terrorism and so can't fly.

But you can buy a gun. Being on the no-fly list is no hindrance.

So there was a move in the Senate to say if you're on the no-fly list, you can't buy a gun. It lost, of course, because enough of those bozos, despite all their blather about security, are more scared of the NRA than they are of terrorism or terrorists.

Sen. Marco Rubio

When Rubio was asked on one of the Sunday-morning talk shows why he voted against it, he said it would impede too many law-abiding citizens from purchasing a gun. The lists "shouldn't be used as a tool to impede 700,000 Americans or potential Americans - people on that list from having access to be able to fully utilize their Second Amendment rights." Because, y'see, the lists are "imperfect," in fact "the majority" of those on the lists shouldn't be there.

Beyond wondering if Rubio would say that "potential Americans" also have rights under the rest of the Constitution, I also wonder where the 700,000 figure comes from or even if it's supposed to represent the total number of people on the lists or the "majority" that shouldn't be.

But what I really can't help but notice is that Rubio makes no reference to getting rid of the lists or cleaning up the lists or providing people wrongly on the lists to have a way to get off the lists; no, he just thinks we must continue to let suspected terrorists buy guns because, you know, guns.

But you know something, that isn't even what got him the award. This is:

Being interviewed on Faux News after the San Bernadino massacre, Rubio sneered about the left talking about gun control and said Farook and Malik "put bombs and left bombs behind on the scene of attack."

Here it comes....

"I don't hear anybody talking about bomb control."

Um, maybe that's because bombs are already illegal, you moth-brained twit?

Say what you want about him, the thing that you can't deny is that Marco Rubio is a clown.

Sources cited in links:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/marco-rubio-no-fly-list-vote
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/rubio-bashes-gun-control-narrative-i-dont-hear-anyone-talking-about-bomb-control/