Marital strife and gunplay don't mix, anyway

Here's the marvelous lead from Anjeanette Damon's story in the Reno paper:

Gov. Jim Gibbons temporarily surrendered his concealed weapons permit earlier this year after it was discovered he didn't complete the required qualifications training for his nine handguns.

The story goes on to explain that Gov. Pervus A. McSkanktard is now and always has been a certifiable (but apparently no longer certified) gun nut, which should surprise absolutely no one, McScurve being so obviously a deeply insecure individual who, struggling with a constant need to compensate for his profound sense of inadequacy, desperately tries to mask powerful self-doubts about his own masculinity behind a cache of firearms.

The predictability of Perv's gun nuttery notwithstanding, there is virtually no conceivable way that the act of him carrying a loaded weapon is going to end well in the long run. And so he is also an excellent prima facie case for comprehensive behavioral and emotional testing prior to gun sales.

Comments

[Juice]

And all this time we thought Chrissy M thought the Gub'nor liked her. It was a concealed weapon after all.

[PW'd?]

Las Vegas Metro tell us that a permit CAN be denied/revoked for any of the following reasons:

"Applications can be denied for reasons outlined in the Nevada Revised Statutes. Such reasons include:

An outstanding warrant of arrest (including Traffic).
A felony conviction
Judicially declared incompetent or insane.
Habitual abuser of drugs or alcohol.
A conviction for a violent crime including a misdemeanor.
A conviction for domestic violence or stalking.
Currently subject to a restraining order, injunction, or other order of protection involving domestic violence.
Currently on parole or probation.
A pending entry of a felony conviction or recent suspension of a sentence for a felony.
Pending criminal charges
False statements on the application."

[Gus]

Week after week, without fail, there is some news item concerning Gibbons that is simply unbelievable. If he didn't exist, the Onion would have had to invent him.

But then everyone would have said, the Onion is losing its ironic edge and dipping down into the outright slapstick.

[Sam Dehne]

BURP!

[Beastie]

What a stupid picture. Who would have a bipod for a rifle that short? And if you have a bipod, why are you holding the rifle?