"Conservatives" are working themselves into a lather over this new "Gipper was packing heat" meme

[Miles Archer]

EXCLUSIVE: President Ronald Reagan's biggest secret: He packed heat in his briefcase
BY Brad Meltzer
SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Saturday, June 13, 2015, 10:00 AM
Updated: Monday, June 15, 2015, 1:01 PM

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/06/15/incredible-revelation-reagan-carried-gun-after-attempted-assassination-author/

After the 1981 assassination attempt on his life, former President Ronald Reagan reportedly began carrying a gun almost everywhere he went, bestselling thriller author Brad Meltzer told MyFoxNY Monday.

Meltzer, who discovered the reported gun's existence for himself after speaking with a Secret Service employee at the agency’s museum, called it an “incredible revelation.”

Reagan reportedly carried the gun in his briefcase and would even take it on Air Force One, Meltzer said.

“I trust these (Secret Service) people around me, but if someone comes at me again, I want to be prepared,” Reagan reportedly said in explaining the action, according to Meltzer.

[xfundy]

1. Gosh, he was so dreamy.

He could do everything!

[Miles Archer]

2. It's like throwing gas on their flaming love for his rugged cowboy-ness.

You've heard the expression "red meat to the base?' This little fantasy is a Porterhouse for freepers and the like.

[Exilednight]

3. Meltzer, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I can sell you. Reagan built it, I even have pics of the bridge

And can take you to it.

[drm604]

4. In his briefcase?

What possible good could that do? Did he expect to get caught in a shootout where all of the Secret Service people are dead or injured but he's had time to get the gun out and can then use it to defend himself against whatever wiped out his SS detail?

[hatrack]

6. Would have been even better with those little three-digit locks

But yes, I agree, I'm just about to melt into a puddle of steaming human slag thanks to his awesome bad-ass cowboy Gorbachev-wrestling freedumb-bringing royaltypherenomelonerangermanwhoshotlibertyvalenceness.

How about you?

[drm604]

16. President Harrison Ford.

[tishaLA]

5. The man who signed gun control legislation in CA....?

Because the Black Panthers started open carrying? That Ronny Reagan?

[tularetom]

7. If you want to be prepared you wouldn't be carrying a gun in your briefcase

The gipper would have been well on his way to room temperature before he ever got the thing unlocked.

[rustydog]

8. And he was able to remove that GUN from the briefcase and drop his intended assassin

Oh wait, no, he didn't. he was shot buy the bad guy...

[Beaverhausen]

9. Reagan carried a briefcase?

[Art_from_Ark]

10. More like a duffel bag in one hand

and a briefcase in the other.

"Now which bag has the heat?"

[Beaverhausen]

11. That's not work attire

They make it sound like he had it with him at all times.

[Art_from_Ark]

12. For Reagan, "work"

was cutting brush at the ranch.

[Octafish]

13. I wonder who he was scared of?

It's not like he's having dinner with the Hinckley's or anything.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

14. Then he's dumber than I thought n/m

[madokie]

15. he would have never know what to do with one

if it was real and had real bullets and the cameras weren't rolling. fuck them and the gippers horse they rode in on.