KY Guntards in Congress

No surprise that teabaggers Sen. Rand Paul and Rep. Thomas Massie (Fourth District) are proud guntards, along with Florida resident Ed Whitfield of the First District.

Or even that Mitchie-poo "declined to say," although in the context of his probable primary thrashing by a teabagger that seems to translate as "no guns." If I were living in the same house as Elaine Chao, I wouldn't have any guns, either.

Candy Barr and John Yarmuth may have declined out of worry that the many liberals in their blue district would frown on an arsenal.

But why are you so shy, Brett Guthrie of the deep-red Second District? Hal Rogers of the mountainous Fifth?  Is it possible you don't want your guntard constituents to find out you are too smart to have weapons in the house?

Interesting that only the Indiana representatives - one repug, one Democrat - were willing to say they do not own guns.

And yes, teabagger Massie is even more guntardedly insane than you ever imagined.  Thanks again, stay-home Democratic voters of the Fourth.

Joseph Gerth at the Courier: 

A bumper sticker on the car of U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie says flatly: “If you know how many guns you have, you don’t have enough.”

The newly elected 4th District Republican from Kentucky may have some idea of what he owns, but wouldn’t he’d rather not share that publicly for a USA TODAY/Gannett/Courier-Journal survey of gun ownership among Congress members.


“Rep. Massie will not disclose the contents of his gun collection, but he does own firearms that (President Barack) Obama seeks to ban,” Massie spokesman Gary Howard said.


Massie said in a campaign position paper last year that he has had a permit to carry a concealed weapon for 10 years and collects “Class III firearms,” which include machine guns, silencers and short-barreled shotguns and rifles.


The president has proposed reinstituting the federal ban on assault weapons, as well as limiting the number rounds in gun magazines and mandating background checks for all gun sales.


Massie, who is sponsoring legislation that would allow people to bring firearms into schools, is one of at least four Kentucky and Southern Indiana Congressmen who have said they own guns.


The others are Rep. Ed Whitfield, R-1st District, who said he owns two handguns and a .410-gauge shotgun and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who said it would be “irresponsible for me to tell would-be criminals what kinds of guns I would use to defend myself and my family or provide a shopping list for a thief.”