The Dutchman

Now wouldn't be grand if he would just follow in his fathers foot steps. Then again it was he who most likely drove his dad to it!

Harry Reid cites father’s suicide in gun debate

There is no level Reid won’t stoop to.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid again took the Senate floor Tuesday morning to make a very personal plea for a v**e on gun control legislation.

The Nevada Democrat mentioned his own father’s suicide, who k**led himself in 1972. Reid pointed out that as a state lawmaker he authored a bill to require waiting periods for handgun purchases.

“In Nevada, if you purchase a handgun you have to wait three days to pick it up,” Reid said. “And it is believed that alone has saved the lives of many people. Sometimes people in a fit of passion will purchase a handgun to do bad things with it, Mr. President even as my dad did, k**led himself. Waiting a few days helps.”

It was the second day that Reid took to the floor to call for Republicans to drop their promises of a filibuster on gun legislation.