Fred Thompson Meet Richard Cohen
Richard Cohen is at it again. Writing about issues he would be best leaving alone. But I guess that is what makes him so special and so funny to read. I often think he is a closet republican working the inside to expose the lunacy of the left.
In his latest article he takes on Fred Thompson and his support of the Second Amendment. Yes that amendment. The one the Left often forgets exists.
First Richard takes issue with Fred Thompson on the Virginia Tech Shootings:
This is how Thompson articulated his anti-gun-control position recently on National Review Online. According to Thompson, the horrible massacre at Virginia Tech ( 32 dead) proved not that the shooter should have been in some sort of tightly controlled mental-health program or that it was too easy in Virginia for a nut to buy semiautomatic weapons, but — incredibly enough — that there were too few guns on campus. If the university did not prohibit guns, students would have been able “to protect themselves” — presumably by reaching into their backpacks and gunning down the shooter.
Then explains why he has a gun himself:
Mind you, while I subscribe to the Marshal Dillon Rule, I am on record as being sympathetic to those who like to keep a gun in the house. This is because I was burglarized one very dark night by a klutz of a thief who burst though my back door and ran around the first floor making so much noise that I was certain he was coming for me. (This was before the deranged had recourse to e-mail.) I very much wanted a gun — not to whack the intruder but merely to protect my life.
So he can appreciate himself having a gun for self protection, but is confused as to why Fred Thompson would advocate students enjoying that same self protection.
That’s Richard Cohen for you. Making the case for the Second Amendment while arguing against. That can only be done from the Leftist perspective.