Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign very much wants you to know that the senator spent what precious little free time he had over the Christmas holiday with people he loves: gun store clerks. The New York Times reported late last Friday afternoon that Rubio, according to his campaign staffers, spent Christmas Eve purchasing a firearm, because that day just happened to be “one of the only days he was home in Miami recently.” As far as panders go, this is a pretty good one – guns, freedom, and Jesus all in a neat little package. And the news dovetailed nicely with Rubio’s debate performance last week, which saw the Florida senator embrace the role of the paranoid gun-rights zealot. “I am convinced that this president, if he could get rid of the Second Amendment, he would,” he said. So Rubio went and got strapped over the holidays before Grinch Obama could take all the guns away forever.