Ronald Reagan, hailed by Republicans in every other context, favored gun regulations, including mandatory waiting periods for purchases.
“Every year, an average of 9,200 Americans are murdered by handguns,” Reagan wrote in a New York Times op-ed in 1991 backing gun restrictions. “This level of violence must be stopped.”

He added that if tighter gun regulations “were to result in a reduction of only 10 or 15 percent of those numbers (and it could be a good deal greater), it would be well worth making it the law of the land.”

You folks, listen to your sainted leader.

My personal heroine of many years had this to say on Face the Nation this morning. She is brilliant, balanced, and explains it so well.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/dianne-feinstein-obama-isis-strategy-isnt-sufficient/

“In every myth, the monster has a father and a mother. And so it is with ISIS: its father is George W. Bush’s America, and it’s mother is Saudi Arabia. The former provided it with pretext in the disastrous invasion of Iraq. This invasion was seen as a rape of the Arab world. It was based on a lie — the false link between September 11 and Saddam Hussein — and it destroyed the West’s moral superiority.”

Kamel Daoud
Algerian journalist and novelist

Sometimes, when I’m coming home and about to pull into my driveway there on the right, I can’t believe I get to live on such a beautiful street.