[b]Liberals give new attitude their best shot[/b]
[url]www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/carr11022001.htm[/url]
by Howie Carr
Friday, November 2, 2001
There's an old saying that a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged.
Now I guess we can add, a gun-owner is a liberal who's worried about terrorists.
It's a silver lining to a dark cloud, isn't it, this sudden collapse of the anti-gun movement? But by God, it's happened. In the halls of Congress and the State House, they used to debate: Should we ban assault weapons?
Now the more pressing question is: Do I buy a revolver or an automatic? Do you want to give up the larger magazine on an automatic for the greater reliability of the .38 caliber revolver? Ask any liberal - the choice is clear. The pros take the revolver, and so should any card-carrying member of the ACLU.
My favorite newly minted gun-nut is Rep. Jay Kaufman from Lexington. You don't get any more politically correct than Jay Kaufman. The last time this guy got in the headlines, he was sticking up for Judge Maria Lopez after she let the transvestite pedophile named Ebony off with a slap on the wrist.
Now, we learn in yesterday's paper, Jay Kaufman is thinking about investing in what Damon Runyon called ``the equalizer.'' May I suggest, Representative, that if you decide to journey north to shop for a previously owned firearm, you consider the Charter Arms Bulldog.
Time may have passed the Bulldog by, but it's a snub-nose .38, and how can you beat the name? When confronted on Route 2A by a wild-eyed savage from al-Qaeda, Rep, right before you let him have it, you can grab that small extra measure of satisfaction by yelling: ``Listen to the Bulldog bark, Abdullah!''
Mother of Gawd, what's next? Is Sen. Cheryl Jacques (rhymes with Fakes) pricing a new crossbow?
We all understand that Massachusetts has perhaps the most repressive anti-gun laws in the nation. Tom Reilly, the demented attorney general, despises guns - at least in the hands of law-abiding citizens. But when the likes of Jay Kaufman are considering purchasing a piece, it doesn't matter how many campaign contributions Tom Reilly vacuums up from indicted mobsters like John Connolly, eventually you, too, will have as much right to own a non-PC gun as the Bulger mob.