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Marr

(20,317 posts)
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 03:32 AM Oct 2012

Romney's comments on AK47's, simplified and illustrated with cats.

CROWLEY: Governor Romney, how would you deal with assault weapons?


ROMNEY: Gosh, marriage, of course.




Was anyone else taken aback by his bizarre, meandering answer to that question?

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Romney's comments on AK47's, simplified and illustrated with cats. (Original Post) Marr Oct 2012 OP
Wait... he answered it? Scootaloo Oct 2012 #1
He blamed single mothers for gun violence blogslut Oct 2012 #9
His performance was kittehstrophic pinboy3niner Oct 2012 #2
Not really Reasonable_Argument Oct 2012 #3
Is number 2 a cat or a tribble? BainsBane Oct 2012 #4
No wonder it was so confused by marriage. Marr Oct 2012 #6
Just like Romneys BainsBane Oct 2012 #8
I was thoroughly confused dballance Oct 2012 #5
Why the laser like focus on mass shooters? Reasonable_Argument Oct 2012 #7
Because the question was about Assault Weapons dballance Oct 2012 #10
 

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
1. Wait... he answered it?
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 03:37 AM
Oct 2012

There was an odd buzzing noise, a drone, if you will, and I completely blanked out.

...Which was probably the exact answer he intended.

blogslut

(38,018 posts)
9. He blamed single mothers for gun violence
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 04:34 AM
Oct 2012

I feel so special! I.(a single mother) haven't been blamed for the ills of the nation in weeks!

 
3. Not really
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 03:38 AM
Oct 2012

He's trying desperatly to appeal to the gun rights voters and not be portrayed as a gun grabber. It's obviously a subject he knows little about and was half remembering talking points his handlers had fed to him.

 

dballance

(5,756 posts)
5. I was thoroughly confused
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 03:40 AM
Oct 2012

It seemed like he had those education and two-parent household talking points burning a hole in his pocket and he just had to work them in somewhere. Of course forgetting that the Aurora, CO shooter, the Columbine shooters, the AZ Giffords shooter and most other mass killers like them all came from two-parent homes. Typically with professional working parents.

And they were all educated, not drop-out slackers who went from sitting at home playing video games to becoming mass shooters.

So his points don't hold up.

 
7. Why the laser like focus on mass shooters?
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 03:44 AM
Oct 2012

They are pretty rare compared to crime in general, even if they do get a lot of news coverage.

 

dballance

(5,756 posts)
10. Because the question was about Assault Weapons
Wed Oct 17, 2012, 05:12 AM
Oct 2012

I naturally gravitated to people like the CO shooter with his 100-round magazine.

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