It looks like New York has their own Babette Josephs in their Assembly, but his name is Al Stirpe. It’s not just that Stirpe is anti-gun and voted for the SAFE Act, he also gets pissed off when constituents don’t think the same way he does. When they dare think they can petition his government on issues he doesn’t like, well, Stirpe loses all sense of self-control and lets out an F-bomb-laden tirade.
Several people apparently left once he started cursing out his constituents, but the paper interviews people who report hearing the F-bomb dropped between 1-5 times. It was bad enough that one of the local gun groups mailed him a package with a toothbrush and a bar soap to clean out his mouth. While the lawmaker asserts that his constituents were disrespectful to him by not letting him finish answers, I would argue that it’s just part of the job of being a public official to try and politely work around those situations without calling voters in your district various insults.
But Stirpe admits there are problems with the SAFE Act – namely that it didn’t go far enough to disarm his “f—ing” constituents. He said he wanted to see it with a buy-back program for targeted guns so that they could be destroyed because citizens shouldn’t be allowed to possess them at all. He also opposed exemptions that would allow Remington to stay in business because no New York gun maker should be able to make guns that he doesn’t approve of, even if they will be sold in other states.
“‘But it’s not about that, it’s not about hunting, it’s not about anything. It’s about their ability to protect themselves against a tyrannical government. That’s what they think it’s all about,’ he said.”
I do believe the monsignor’s finally got the point!
Who died and made him a little brat…
We need to have a forced buyback of these political offices.
who the hell does this stirpe think he is. he is another one of these politions that thinks he is better than the people he is suppose to represent. just remember stirpe e the people put you in office and we can sure as hell get you out of there.
One can only hope he or someone close to him will someday find himself in a situation where a gun owner (probably an illegal one as most will be, the way NY is going) saves his life or his family’s life.
Betcha he’s got armed security.
Betcha he need armed security after this outburst.
What was that traditional solution to “representatives” of this sort……oh yeah.
Who wants to bring the tar?