At first, Chris Christie just didn't recall his anti-gun stance, reports Nolan McCaskill:
In November, Christie said he couldn’t remember supporting an assault weapons ban, remarking that maybe he did, but “it doesn’t sound like me.”
Sometimes, when you're a serial flip-flopper, it's hard to keep track.
During his state Senate bid in 1993, Christie called a GOP effort to repeal the state’s assault weapons ban an “issue which has energized me to get into this race.” Two years later, Christie campaigned as a supporter of an assault weapons ban and called those in opposition “dangerous,” “crazy” and “radical.”
“They must be stopped,” he said at the time.
Oh, right, that whole “dangerous,” “crazy” and “radical” spiel. It was all coming back to him Wednesday on Fox News with host Sean Hannity.
“Well listen, in 1995, Sean, I was 32 years old and I’ve changed my mind,” Christie said. “And the biggest reason that I changed my mind was my seven years as a federal prosecutor. What I learned in those seven years was that we were spending much too much time talking about gun laws against law-abiding citizens and not nearly enough time talking about enforcing the gun laws strongly against criminals.”
Maybe you've just run one too many times, Chris.