All in the Gun Family

Republicans channel their inner Archie Bunker on gun control:

"I believe that, with all my heart, that if you have the citizens who are well trained, and particularly in these places that are considered to be gun-free zones, that we can stop that type of activity," Perry said during an interview on CNN's "State of the Union." This narrative is echoed across the Republican party, throughout the right wing media, and in the minds of most conservative voters. It's also eerily similar to the tone taken by the character Archie Bunker from the hit 1970s TV show, "All in the Family." 

Archie, played by actor Carol O'Conner, was a middle class citizen from Queens, NY, who was the stereotypical white conservative, filled with racial ignorance. In the episode "Archie and the Editorial," the elder conservative who would frequent "Kelsey's bar" to rant about his grievances, demanded equal time against a TV station manager who broadcasted an anti-gun speech. Ever the prototype for the modern day Tea Party movement, Archie was granted his time on the station's local channel where he explained what the country needed to do to handle gun violence.

In his rebuttal titled "Guns for Everybody," Archie gave a detailed explanation on how to stop "stick ups" and "skyjackings." "All you gotta do is arm all your passengers," Archie told the audience. "They just pass out the pistols at the beginning of the trip, and then pick them up again at the end. Case closed." Archie prefaced this by claiming their was a "conspiracy" by the government to take away guns from Americans, in some sort of "communist" plot.

"But Xmastime", you say in the voice of Craig “Ironhead” Heyward from those soap commercials (RIP), “didn't you call this six years ago?"  

OF COURSE I DID!!