‘It’s Going to Be in My Pocket From This Day Forward’
U.S. Rep. Chris Collins wasted no time Wednesday morning in blaming Democrats’ “rhetoric” for the shooting of Steve Scalise, the Republican Majority Whip. Collins, a Republican who represents Western New York, was the first congressman to announce support for Donald Trump. Wednesday morning He denounced what he called the “outrageous .. finger-pointing” and “the anger directed at Donald Trump, his supporters” from Democrats.
A few short hours later, Rep. Collins again made another aggressive move, announcing he will from now on carry his gun when he’s “out and about.”
“On a rare occasion I’d have my gun in the glove box or something, but it’s going to be in my pocket from this day forward,” Collins, speaking with talk radio station WKBW, promised.
“I can assure you from this day forward, I have a carry permit, I will be carrying when I’m out and about, which I have to tell you I have not been even though I have a carry permit at home,” Collins said.
Collins, however, is the one with a “rhetoric” problem.
The Buffalo News reports “in 2009, he saw his dreams of winning the 2010 GOP gubernatorial nomination disappear after he compared Sheldon Silver, then the Democratic speaker of the New York State Assembly, to Hitler and said Silver may be the anti-Christ. Collins later apologized for the comparison.”
Rep. Collins’ New York constituents shouldn’t worry about their congressman being armed if they meet him at a town hall. “IÂ never will have a town hall,” Collins vowed earlier this year.
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