Mr. Toomey, a conservative Republican in a tough re-election fight in Pennsylvania, has been rewarded with support from unlikely sources: former Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, a Democrat who was shot in the head in a 2011 assassination attempt and started a political action committee focused on gun control, and Michael R. Bloomberg, a former mayor of New York, who is behind another gun control PAC. [More]
Well gosh, if a trusted source for unbiased reporting like "the newspaper of record" calls a gun-grabber "conservative," who am I to argue?
Well David, Henry Hyde was a conservative republican, author of the famous (infamous?) 'Hyde Amendment' -- less well known perhaps, he favored 'sensible' gun control, remember?
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"People have a right to own weapons, but not weapons of mass destruction and mayhem whose only purpose is to kill a lot of people in a hurry," Hyde said at the time.
That's the son of a bitch who said declaring war was anachronistic in addition to infringing on 2A and having multiple mistresses. That's no conservative.
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