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Gabby Giffords Shot a Gun for Gun Control
New York Magazine ^
| Joe Coscarelli
| 7/2/2013
Posted on 07/02/2013 12:48:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
As part of her seven-state "Rights and Responsibilities" tour, former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords appeared at a gun range in Las Vegas and fired a weapon for the first time since she was shot in the head more than two years ago. The image is poignant, and even slightly unsettling, but serves a larger purpose: Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, firearm owners before and after she became a victim of gun violence herself, are out to prove that common-sense gun control and the Second Amendment can co-exist. As a spokeswoman for this concept, Giffords should be all but unassailable.
"Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage," she writes in a USA Today op-ed explaining the tour and encouraging the expansion of background checks. "But when children are gunned down in their classrooms, when families are slaughtered at a movie theater, when a little girl dreaming of running for office is shot dead standing next to me in a grocery store parking lot, we have to admit what we're doing is not enough. We've all got to do more to reduce gun violence."
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; secondamendment
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To: nickcarraway
Well that explains a lot.
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posted on
07/02/2013 12:48:57 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: nickcarraway
Sure looks to be having fun.
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posted on
07/02/2013 12:49:39 PM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: nickcarraway
New York magazine, read my gun.
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posted on
07/02/2013 12:49:52 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(The RINO/amnesty argument goes like this: 1) If we pander to Hispanics, we will save the GOP, at le)
To: nickcarraway
OK,sweetiepie...repeal the Second Amendment.It's been done,it ain't easy but certainly “do-able”.
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posted on
07/02/2013 12:50:45 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(The Civil Servants Are No Longer Servants...Or Civil.)
To: nickcarraway
Giffords lies just like Obama, with ease and purpose.
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posted on
07/02/2013 12:51:01 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(The RINO/amnesty argument goes like this: 1) If we pander to Hispanics, we will save the GOP, at le)
To: Puppage
Hang on...does that magazine hold more than 10 rounds?
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posted on
07/02/2013 12:51:41 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(The Civil Servants Are No Longer Servants...Or Civil.)
To: nickcarraway
Mark Kelly is a lying, fascist, hypocrite
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posted on
07/02/2013 12:51:53 PM PDT
by
thorvaldr
To: All
she realizes that under the “enhanced background checks” she would probably be disqualified from owning a gun because of her diminished mental and physical condition.
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posted on
07/02/2013 12:51:59 PM PDT
by
newnhdad
(Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
To: nickcarraway
Camel’s nose “gun control” and the Second Amendment CANNOT coexist. That’s a Nazi myth.
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posted on
07/02/2013 12:52:07 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Former member of the GOP useful idiot voter base.)
To: nickcarraway; All
Hypocrisy knows no limits...
And there is NO such thing as “common-sense gun-control” laws...
They cannot co-exist...It will always be in conflict with one another...
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posted on
07/02/2013 12:52:24 PM PDT
by
stevie_d_64
(It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
To: nickcarraway
Explain to me how making it harder for law abiding people to defend themselves will reduce crime.
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posted on
07/02/2013 12:55:16 PM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: nickcarraway
If they did a background check on Ms. gifford, they might find that she has had a recent brain injury that has significantly affected her mental capacities and potentially influenced her sense of reason and judgement. I suspect she would not be allowed to own or handle guns should her cause be rewarded with passage of the bill she is promoting.
She may well have already committed a future crime in the firing of this weapon.
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posted on
07/02/2013 12:56:08 PM PDT
by
Tenacious 1
(If the government told us to expect rain, I'd schedule an outdoor wedding.)
To: Gay State Conservative
Hang on...does that magazine hold more than 10 rounds?Only a freedom restricted New Englander would catch that...well done!
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posted on
07/02/2013 12:56:15 PM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: SkyDancer
This is one of the comments under the article:
Only in America can someone be shot in the head and then proclaim that they love guns.By that logic, they think we should hate all Muslims.
To: Puppage
Lean into it, woman. Get your center of mass over your toes, not over your heels. A strong recoil will plant you on your butt.
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posted on
07/02/2013 12:58:33 PM PDT
by
JoeFromSidney
( New book: RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY. Buy from Amazon.)
To: nickcarraway
Isn’t that kinda like fornicating for abstinence?
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posted on
07/02/2013 12:59:12 PM PDT
by
Impala64ssa
(You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
To: Puppage
Only a freedom restricted New Englander would catch that...well done! I'm not just *any* New Englander,I'm from the Gay State.(Check my profile for an explanation of the term).
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posted on
07/02/2013 1:00:43 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(The Civil Servants Are No Longer Servants...Or Civil.)
To: nickcarraway
Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, firearm owners before and after she became a victim of gun violence herself, So what are you protesting for? Or do you even know?
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posted on
07/02/2013 1:01:17 PM PDT
by
McGruff
(I need a new party.)
To: JoeFromSidney
Might get make up all over the stock.
(Funny story, Mrs. Jewbacca got completely chewed out by her DI for wearing makeup and getting it on her rifle. Can relate the dressing-down in detail to this day.)
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posted on
07/02/2013 1:02:20 PM PDT
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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