What is the point of owning guns?

[Al B. Sure!]

Former Republican presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan did support the Brady bill. They (along with Jimmy Carter) wrote a letter to Congress in 1994, here quoted in the LA Times:

http://articles.latimes.com/1994-05-05/news/mn-54185_1_assault-weapons-ban/2

Reagan also wrote a New York Times op-ed in 1991, entitled "Why I'm for the Brady bill":

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/29/opinion/why-i-m-for-the-brady-bill.html

[Felch]

2004 election results, by county:

It's a remarkably close fit with the map of "share of gun violence 2011".

I like how MtG took it seriously. As if Maine were some sort of densely populated, post-apocalyptic hellscape.