win the presidency. sarah palin s scripted performance today has been wisely criticized by everyone from charles krauthammer and perez hilton. two people who have never before found a single point of agreement. sarah palin was echoed today by sharron angle who issued her own self-involved statement about the tucson massacre. she said, the despicable act in tucson is a horrifying and senseless tragedy and should be condemned as a single act of violence by a single unstable individual. she apparently doesn t realize that we have all already condemned it as such. palin leveled a cold-eyed outrage at people attempting to apportion blame for this terrible event. palin s self-defense seems aimed
time for tonight s rewrite. today sarah palin said, like many, i ve spent the last few days reflecting on what happen ed and praying for guidance. her prayers were not answered. leaving her obviously without divine guidance about what to say today. instead, she sunk into a self-involved defensive, inappropriate ramble about well, i guess it was supposed to be about the tucson massacre. left to her own devices she turned, where else? to ronald reagan. president reagan said, we must reject the idea that every time a law is broken, society s guilty rather than the law breaker. no one has ever told sarah palin that ronald reagan like most politicians said some very
like to have the firearm that was involved in the shooting because they think that there s going to be some legislation against it, and it becomes possibly some day down the road a collector s item. the other thing is there s this strange fascination with some gun owners. they just want to own the gun that was used. and then others will view it, you know, this really is a good firearm for safety. maybe i ought to get one of these things because it was pretty effective. so there s a wide range of reasons as to why people would lock on to gt the glock 19, but you re exactly right, in a number of different states we ve seen a run on this firearm because of this tragedy in tucson. now, this 30-clip magazine that carries the extra bullets, it was illegal until 2004. still illegal in new york, new jersey, connecticut, hawaii california, hawaii. that doubled the amount of shots that he could fire on saturday. why would anyone need to be able to do automatic fire of more
loughner would have needed to reload after firing half as many bullets as he did. half. imagine the amount of grief that could have been saved if 15 of those bullets were never fired. when the investigation reveals the exact order of the 31 shots fired, we ll be able to do the grim accounting and tell you exactly, exactly who would be alive today if the republican house, the republican senate and the republican president had the basic human decency to do the right thing in 2004. i think we are at a turning point in american political culture. it s raised questions, too, about gun control laws in this country. there s no reason why anybody needs more than ten round per pistol. three days after the tucson massacre, attention finally turns to guns. what happened was not because of the guns. this was about hate.
like to have the firearm that was involved in the shooting because they think that there s going to be some legislation against it, and it becomes possibly some day down the road a collector s item. the other thing is there s this strange fascination with some gun owners. they just want to own the gun that was used. and then others will view it, you know, this really is a good firearm for safety. maybe i ought to get one of these things because it was pretty effective. so there s a wide range of reasons as to why people would lock on to gt the glock 19, but you re exactly right, in a number of different states we ve seen a run on this firearm because of this tragedy in tucson. now, this 30-clip magazine that carries the extra bullets, it was illegal until 2004. still illegal in new york, new jersey, connecticut, hawaii california, hawaii. that doubled the amount of shots that he could fire on saturday. why would anyone need to be able to do automatic fire of more than the 15 bullet