I remember her very first campaign. She claimed to be a lifelong Republican that changed over to Democrat because of the gun control issue (she lost a loved on in the shooting incident on the long island railroad). She claimed that she still supported everything the Republicans did and said on other issues and the only reason she changed over to the Dems was because of the gun control issue.
A couple weeks later I watched her denounce Republicans on Medicare and Social Security. Claiming that Republicans wanted to throw old people out into the streets. She had dusted off an old DNC propaganda handbook and was reciting it word for word. These days the liberal ADA gives her a 90 liberal rating.
The REAL problem on that LIRR train was that there was nobody able or willing to disarm Collin Ferguson. Of course, needless to say Ferguson was the only one armed on the train... Had there been one armed civilian, that civilian could have put an end to Ferguson's rampage.
McCarthy's response? We need to be sure that all potential victims are disarmed and defensless. Don't spend too much time trying to make sense of it.
Mark
In fact, Ms. McCarthy is so beloved by the 'Rats and the Left that Barbara Streisand produced a TV biographical movie of her a few years ago. It was so biased that the role of the GOP incumbent she defeated, Dan Frisa (in real life a good-looking young man), was played by an doddering old fogy.