Ronald Reagan would not fill the bill for the right-wingers of 2014

"March 30, however, marks an anniversary I would just as soon forget, but cannot.

It was on that day 10 years ago that a deranged young man standing among reporters and photographers shot a policeman, a Secret Service agent, my press secretary and me on a Washington sidewalk. …

Every year, an average of 9,200 Americans are murdered by handguns, according to Department of Justice statistics. This does not include suicides or the tens of thousands of robberies, rapes and assaults committed with handguns.

This level of violence must be stopped.”
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Ronald Reagan, announcing his support for the handgun control bill known as the Brady Bill, in 1991 … and proving again that he was way too moderate for the current Tea Party Republicans who claim him as their founding saint.