Upstate, Downstate, Gungate

Somehow I just knew Kirsten Gillibrand was going to be a problem when Governor David Paterson appointed her to Senator Hillary Clinton's vacated Senate seat.

Last week she told reporters that she and her husband (the dude pictured in the middle above) sleep with two rifles under their bed for protection. Don't most people use condoms?

Update: This week the story is the guns have been removed from beneath the bed. We are sure this was done to stave off critics and not because the Gillibrands are particularly concerned about their two young children getting the weapons and killing each other. What will they do if a couple of deer break into the house now?

This might be acceptable if Senator Gillibrand represented Montana, but she is a senator from New York and no, this is not playing well downstate at all.