Rep. Carolyn McCarthy is in fact an exceptionally stupid person.
In December 1993 her husband was murdered and her son paralyzed by Colin Ferguson, a madman who did a rampage shooting on a Long Island Rail Road commuter train. Ferguson murdered six people and wounded nineteen others in that railroad car. The extent of his madness was evident when he insisted upon defending himself at his trial: I observed his rambling fantasies.
Despite Rep. McCarthy's own fantasies, it was not the police who ended Ferguson's rampage. Two passengers in the same railroad car as McCarthy's husband and son waited until Ferguson was distracted and then overpowered him.
Colin Ferguson got into that railroad car with an unlicensed handgun in New York City. He violated the city's laws against owning a handgun and presumably the railroad's rules against taking one on its train. Ferguson also violated many other laws including, obviously, those prohibiting murder and shooting people.
Were Carolyn McCarthy capable of rational thought she would recognize that no amount of laws--no matter what their nature--would have stopped Colin Ferguson.
If Mrs. McCarthy were even reasonably intelligent she would realize that her husband might not have been murdered and her son might not be paralyzed if the two courageous men--or any other passengers on the car that day--could have had the means to stop Colin Ferguson earlier. The two men were willing and capable but they could not act sooner because there was a disparity of force: Ferguson was armed and everyone else was at his mercy. He had no mercy. He was insane and he needed to kill white people.
But instead of fighting for the right of others to defend themselves, McCarthy ran for Congress on the one issue of increased gun control. And that has been her issue since 1996 when the even more stupid voters in the Fourth Congressional District first elected her to office.
Of course Rep. McCarthy is a liar too. She is stupid but even she can't be so stupid that she hasn't paid attention to herself. McCarthy is a barrel shroud.