What an odd thing for a Democrat to say

According to TheHill.com:

"If they (Republicans) bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun," Obama said at a fundraiser in Philadelphia Friday, according to pool reports.

Y'know, I get the metaphor. This is nothing to get worked up about. He wasn't actually talking about fighting it out with knives and/or guns.

But if a Republican said that, you'd have liberal Democrats fainting with the vapors all over the place. Oh, the violence. Oh, the horror.