There's Got To Be Something Wrong With Matt Gaetz
On Monday's Rep. Matt Gaetz podcast, the Florida MAGA apologist claimed your grandparents could order AR 15's through the mail.
We are not making that up.
But wait, there's more! Did you know that in 1791, there were no mass murderers, even though people could own cannons?
"Democrats want to blame guns, of course," Gaetz said. "But we know it is not that simple. It's misguided even."
"Your grandparents used to be able to order mail-order automatic weapons," he claimed. "And when the Second Amendment was written, the American people such as they were, could own cannons."
Pretty hard to even move a cannon, let alone kill several of your neighbors with it.
"No mass shootings back then," Gaetz chimed.
WTF? There were no AR15s back in the late 1790s. The first automatic weapon was created in 1884.
This is so stupid on so many levels I'm not going to write my usual rebuttal.
I will make two points.
In 1791, when the Second Amendment, was written, there were under 4 million people in the entire country. Just two years earlier, the U.S. Congress passed an act to establish the United States military.
Rep. Gaetz is either unaware or lying, but for shits and giggles, I will educate him.