The Top Four Reasons Rick Perry Toured a Gun Factory the Day After a Mass Shooting

[TexasTowelie]

You are a governor of a big state. Someone just shot and killed more than a dozen people in the nation's capital. Question: Should you tour a gun factory the next day?

If you're Rick Perry, the clear answer is yes. As part of his job-poaching tour in Maryland, he took a look Wednesday around the Beretta USA factory in Accocek, Maryland, just a short hop from the site of the D.C. Navy Yard shooting. Sure, there were some in the liberal media who critiqued the visit as insensitive or tactless, but the governor had his reasons.

There were four of them, to be exact, which we have compiled below:

1. Some companies are really good at making guns
Beretta recently threatened to leave Maryland if the state passed an assault weapons ban. In an anti-climactic twist, the ban passed, but Berretta is still there. "Beretta has been a great manufacturer in Maryland, and they feel not only underappreciated, they feel under attack," Perry told reporters in a news conference. Just not under strong enough attack to actually leave Maryland.

The rest of the list is at http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2013/09/procon_should_rick_perry_have.php .

[Jenoch]

1. If you really believe Perry did something wrong,

why do you feel the need to exaggerate and say he toured the plant 'the next day'? You posted that he did the tour on Wednesday.

[TexasTowelie]

2. I must admit that I didn't catch that.

I posted the article as it was written by the reporter without alteration.

[Scuba]

3. When Bobby Jindal said the Republicans have to quit being the "Party of Stupid" ....

... it was Rick Perry who gave the rebuttal.

[Paladin]

4. +1. (nt)