Christie talks guns, education in South Carolina

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By JILL COLVIN

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie talked up his conservative credentials to a room of South Carolina voters Tuesday evening, as he kicked off his first visit to the early-voting state in nearly five months.

The potential Republican presidential candidate had been scheduled to attend a meet-and-greet at a Columbia bar called the Liberty Tap Room, but the event turned into an impromptu town hall, with Christie answering questions from the friendly crowd for an hour and a half.

Among the topics: Christie's support for the Second Amendment. New Jersey has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation, but Christie, who ran his first campaigns for local office defending the state's assault weapons ban, blamed a Democratic legislature for the state's current laws, and said he'd vetoed recent attempts to limit gun owners' rights.

"Listen, I know that there's a lot of perceptions about my view on gun rights because I'm from New Jersey and because the laws are the way they are," he told the crowd. "We'll just have to explain that to folks over the course of time."

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie answers a question during Rick Scott's Economic Growth Summit in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Tuesday, June 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

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[onehandle]

1. Jackass. nt

[jmowreader]

2. So in other words...

The Democrats are going to talk about the economy, and the Republicans are going all "Jesus wants you to have an AR-15!"

[Hoyt]

3. From headlines I thought he was talking about lack of education among gun lovers.

[kiri]

4. brilliant

"I thought he was talking about lack of education among gun lovers"

Lack of empathy, lack of caring, lack of common sense, lack of sense of beauty,.. seems to accompany this malicious gun disease.