Sarah Palin compares registering military style weapons to Colonists being asked to register their single shot, muzzle-loaded, muskets. Oh yeah, so similar.

So the above graphic is currently posted over at the Facebook home of the addle-brained albatross from Arizona. 

There is in fact so much stupid about this that I hardly know where to start.

Should I start with the fact that an AR-15 can fire 700 rounds per minute, while a musket can fire only.....one? (Okay maybe two if you are Fess Parker.)

Or that the Colonial army was fighting for the right to form a government that would represent their interests, and create laws to protect them from the kinds of people who might someday want to own an arsenal of weapons which could include a 700 round per minute firing AR-15?

Or that in colonial times long rifles were the only weapons owned by the majority of Americans and these were not something easily concealed or used to mug pedestrians on the street?

I can tell you with some certainty that if the Founding Fathers had been dealing with a reality which included the possibility of the average citizen owning hundreds of automatic weapons, grenade launchers, and easily concealed handguns, they would have dramatically tightened up that language in the 2nd Amendment. Or possibly done away with it altogether.

By the way the inspiration for this post was nothing more than the opportunity to pimp  Brancy's post from the other day, about the Connecticut gun owners refusal to register their military style weapons, that I already ridiculed here.

My assumption is that with the SarahPAC funds running low there is only so much money available for ghostwriters. So instead of having two separate Facebook posts written, this way they can have one and then share it.

They're wasting their time really, I think that at this point everybody recognizes that the Palins as a unit are against ANY laws which might protect citizens from having bits of their body shot off, believe that the 2nd Amendment was written by Jesus while riding a dinosaur, and that anybody who introduces any gun legislation is probably an America hating communist Nazi.

Or something like that.