Rubio wrong to support sales of assault rifles

The junior senator from Florida just can't help acting like what he looks like, a junior high school debater. After telling Americans about the bad job Barack Obama is doing to ensure their safety in the face of the Muslim terrorist threats, Marco Rubio turns around and claims it's all right to sell AK 47s to known terrorists.

His convoluted thinking, created by the NRA, claims that there are law-abiding citizens on the no-fly list, as well as some dead citizens like Ted Kennedy, and that they should not be prevented from purchasing arms.

So, instead of updating the no-fly lists, Rubio prefers that we sell assault rifles to terrorists (and supposedly to dead people).

The junior high senator wants to spend billions more on defense, but he doesn't want to do what's obvious, keep assault rifles out of the hands of known terrorists. Go figure.

Ed Siemaszko

Perico Island

This story was originally published December 23, 2015 at 12:00 AM with the headline "Rubio wrong to support sales of assault rifles ."