Libertarians across the entire country were dismayed and nauseated last week to hear "their" Vice Presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Governor William F. Weld denounce, in the most mechanically and historically ignorant terms possible, the private , civilian ownership of AR-15 rifles—apparently because they can be loaded with more than five cartridges (the appropriate loading, the moron claims, for military weapons) and address handguns as possibly an even worse "problem", inspiring even as squishy a publication as Reason.com to assert "William Weld Isn't a Softcore Libertarian—He Just Isn't a Libertarian At All".

It is a most ugly and dishonorable thing for the man to hobnail his way up onto the LP soapbox and shamelessly attempt to exploit it for the sake of his long-discredited and utterly obsolete Liberaloid agenda. Surely he could not help having heard, sometime over the past twenty or thirty years, that widespread and increasing individual weapons ownership has caused crime rates to collapse in double digits. One of the most charming things I know of is the way that young women have taken the thirty-shot AR-15 to their hearts as their very own "pet" rifle.