Damnit. I sling up my first post in almost a week and I mention that nobody booed McCain’s speech.
Two minutes later this pops up in my RSS reader:
Over the years, I haven’t agreed with the NRA on every issue. I have supported efforts to have NICS background checks apply to gun sales at gun shows. I recognize that gun shows are enjoyed by millions of law-abiding Americans. I do not support efforts by those who seek to regulate them out of existence. But I believe an accurate, fair and instant background check at guns shows is a reasonable requirement. I also oppose efforts to require federal regulation of all private sales such as the transfer between a father and son or husband and wife. I supported campaign finance reform because I strongly believed our system of financing campaigns was influencing elected officials to put the interests of “soft money” donors ahead of the public interest.It was at this point, early in his speech, that a slow but steady trickle of people started leaving the venue. He had lost our interest. John McCain’s determination to do away with the private sale of firearms is unacceptable. Yes David, no one booed. Honestly now, would you have? This was not a crowd of liberal college students bent on making a disturbance, but a crowd of good and decent Americans. They offered up polite applause and stood when he was done. They clapped again when he came back on stage, it was the polite thing to do.
Emphasis mine, just to draw your attention to it.
Yeah, that was definitely the polite and mature way to handle it.
