The Libertarian VP candidate spouted something last week that is just frankly beyond the pale.
Bill Weld Just Compared AR-15s to “Weapons of Mass Destruction,” & Said Pistols Were Even Worse!
“The five-shot rifle, that’s a standard military rifle; the problem is if you attach a clip to it so it can fire more shells and if you remove the pin so that it becomes an automatic weapon, and those are independent criminal offenses,” Weld said. “That is when they become, essentially, a weapon of mass destruction. The problem with handguns probably is even worse than the problem of the AR15.”
This is just mind-numbing asshattery. First of all, it shows he knows absolutely zip about what an AR-15 actually is. Secondly, it shows that he knows absolutely zip about guns. (Clips? Attaching clips? Seriously? That’s a dumbass mistake I made when I was a teenager and didn’t know any better.) Thirdly, and as the article graphically pointed out, the phrase “weapon of mass destruction” has a very specific meaning — and this ain’t it.
Both Weld and Gary Johnson have made some highly-suspect comments about guns and gun control in this campaign season. I more or less expect it out of Weld — after all, he was a RINO governor of a liberal east-coast state — but I’d expect better of the guy Libertarians have heading their ticket and think ought to be president.
I have espoused Trump hatred and flown the #NeverTrump flag on this blog for quite some time. My choice for the GOP would have been Cruz. But as Deroy Murdock points out at National Review, to remain solidly #NeverTrump in the face of our current electoral disaster is little more than a sure win guarantee for Hillary Clinton.
Sooner or later, conservatives are going to have to hold their noses YET AGAIN and vote for the lesser of two weevils. I’m done with my dalliance with the Libertarians, even if Trump is a sure thing in Indiana — and with Evan Fuckass Bayh running for the Senate now that the hapless Baron Hill has dropped out, and the likelihood that the Moustache will be our next Governor now that Trump has co-opted Mike Pence, I really think Indiana is in play — and I don’t think we ought to hand it to Hillary on a silver platter.
Gotta go down fighting even if our general is an asshole. Vote Trump, even if he’s an olfactory disaster. You may regret it, but you’d regret a Hillary presidency even more. If you are a conservative and you sit this election out because you get nauseous just thinking about the dregs we’ve dredged out of the bottom of the barrel politic to run this cycle, you’re a damn fool idiot and we can’t be friends. (I can still understand someone voting Libertarian, but for the reasons I’ve pointed out above, I can’t respect you for it anymore. That’s different from not voting at all, though.)