State rep defends ‘Machine Gun Social’

Ummm… okay, so we’ve got a Republican Ohio state rep who’s going to have a public campaign fundraiser – called a “Machine Gun Social” – where there will be a few fully automatic weapons available for the public to shoot. As far as campaign fundraisers go, that sounds like a hoot (caveat: there will be only one gun at a time and it will be mechanically locked so it can’t shoot anywhere but downrange). Who could have a problem with that? Why… the Republican’s Democrat opponent, who opines:

“It’s hard to imagine the words “machine gun” and “social” in the same sentence. It’s an oxymoron. It doesn’t jive. It causes cognitive dissonance. … In my opinion, there is nothing social about machine guns, ever. They are weapons. The reason they exist is to kill people.

Feh.