Inherit the Windbag

"Sounds like the Old West is returning to the Sunshine State!" Ron Reagan intros in his MSNBC discussion panel on Florida's new "stand your ground" law.

Ron mugs. Ron grimaces. Ron laughs at his own wit ("Snarf, snarf, snarf!").

Ron argues that the average person doesn't have the training or the judgment or the intelligence that police do, to know when it's appropriate to use lethal force.

Ron doesn't think a regular person would have time to react appropriately to an attack. Interestingly, Ron's guest and fellow citizen disarmament fanatic, Richard Aborn, argues just the opposite--he's against Florida's bill because he thinks people need to deliberate and cogitate and think about consequences and weigh and evaluate and think some more before deciding to consider responding to an immediate, life-endangering threat.

Ron speculates that if he pulled a knife on a woman and she responded by retrieving a gun instead of a wallet from her purse, he could take it away and use it against her.

I'm sure I could find some people who would love to see him try. Hey Ron, any time you want to give a public demonstration, have your people call my people.

"By the way, you're not packin' heat are ya?" Ron asks his other guest, CCRKBA's Alan Gottlieb. "Because if I ask you a threatening question I don't want you drawing down on me! Snarf, snarf, snarf!"

Yeah, maintain the bigoted lie that peaceable gun owners are prone to violence when they don't get their way. Hopefully, in the future, now that he has the benefit of hindsight for this sort of question, Alan will use it as an opportunity to correct the record and educate the viewers instead of laughing along with such catty insults.

"Untrained amateurs are notoriously bad at recognizing threats and responding to them with a cool head," Ron claims with authority. "The last thing we want is someone who's never been in this sort of situation before waving a gun around firing off rounds."

Right, Ron. Tell these people they were wrong.

"Hey everybody," Ron concludes, "I love to say this when we do this sort of segment. Keep your powder dry. Snarf, snarf, snarf!"

What a talentless moron. What a prime example of how inheriting a famous name puts totally unworthy people in the spotlight.

So, Ron, how does it feel to be MSNBC's answer to Paris Hilton? Snarf, snarf, snarf!