These are the same idiots who freaked out over Sarah Palin’s gun sight map.

Via Politico:

Sen. Ben Cardin asked House Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday to “put down the gun” in the shutdown stalemate.

“It’s time for Mr. Boehner to put down the gun and put more faith in the democratic process,” the Maryland Democrat said at a news conference with Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer of California and Bill Nelson of Florida to discuss the shutdown’s impact on environmental work.

Cardin said it’s appropriate to use terms like “ransom” and “hostage” to describe the GOP demands to defund the health care law as a price for passing a stopgap funding bill.

“The gun isn’t raised to President [Barack] Obama’s head or the Senate’s head,” Cardin said. “The gun is raised at the nation, as a whole. That’s why descriptions like ‘ransom’ and ‘hostage’ are not mere hyperboles: They’re as close as the English language gets to actually describing the GOP strategy.”