If she wasn't attractive, he wouldn't have even bothered responding.

A person fleeing that situation who may well be unarmed is self-preservation, not hypocrisy, regardless of their stance on guns. He is however reaping what he has helped sow. Hypocrisy is simply the wrong word. This isn't the same as being anti-abortion and then paying for your mistress to get one. Being pro-gun doesn't mean you just stand there.

Half split bracketing was the term I learned in aviation electronic school in the Navy.

He doesn't know anything. The only thing that keeps him there are the razor thin margins in the house.

Highly unlikely. Freedom caucus will not get the speakership. GOP hates them more than McCarthy. Gaetz didn't think this through. The only option is more of the same or somebody more friendly to the Democrats.