Surprise, surprise. Former disgraced House Speaker turned Fox "news" contributor is calling for the Wild, Wild West in the wake of Wednesday evening's spree shooting in Maine. In Republican-land, it's always too early to talk about gun laws following a horrific event such as the Maine shooting, unless of course it's to trash them, or accuse Democrats of "politicizing" a tragedy if they dare to call for stricter gun legislation.

Here's Gingrich making an appearance on Sean Hannity's show and immediately saying the solution is more guns, and pushing the same nonsense as Franklin Graham where he suggested Israel was to blame for recent terror attacks because the country does not require citizens to own assault-style rifles.

GINGRICH: Well, I mean, first of all, it’s horrible, and I think that we’re gonna have to really think through a better method of protecting people. Frankly, in states that have conceal carry and other permits, constitutional carry permits, you have a much more rapid response to these kind of people who are crazy.

And we have no idea what this person’s motivation was, but I think we have to assume, as we move forward, that people... and by the way, this also applies to what happened in Israel when Hamas attacked... we have to have a greater ability for our citizens to protect themselves, because it’s clear that law enforcement comes in after the massacre. But law enforcement’s almost never there to stop the massacre.

This has been true in Europe. It's been true here. It's been true in Israel. So I think we have to think about a whole new strategy, because these kind of people are extraordinarily dangerous, are willing to kill others, have no sense of decency, and frankly, you have to stop them as early as possible to minimize the loss of individual lives.

If more guns in more hands somehow made us safer, the United States should be the safest place in the world. Sadly, as we know, that's not the case.