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Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords
and husband Mark Kelly launch
gun control initiative

Fox News, by Staff

Original Article

Posted By:KarenJ1, 1/8/2013 11:21:37 AM

Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband launched an initiative aimed at curbing gun violence on Tuesday, the second anniversary of the Tucson shooting that killed six people and left her critically injured. Giffords and Mark Kelly wrote in an op-ed published in USA Today that their Americans for Responsible Solutions initiative would help raise money to support greater gun control efforts. "Achieving reforms to reduce gun violence and prevent mass shootings will mean matching gun lobbyists in their reach and resources," they wrote in the column.

Comments:
It is really sick and twisted to use Newtown for political purposes like the Democrats have done.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: BaseballFan, 1/8/2013 11:32:36 AM     (No. 9105000)

A truthful headline would read:

"launch attack on US Constitution"


Oh - and in Aurora, Colorado - it was disclosed yesterday that police removed several prescription bottles from the apartment of the Aurora theater shooter.

Who´s surprised? LeftMedia certainly aren´t bothering to highlight that bit.


Reply 2 - Posted by: curious1, 1/8/2013 11:33:47 AM     (No. 9105004)

Well, as I´ve been saying for decades, LPs (Libtards/Progtards) really are sick and twisted (as well as a clear and present danger to the Republic) - they´re LPs, what did you expect.

We´re in a war, but not too many non-LPs seem to realize that yet. I hope they wake up before it´s too late, because they seriously outnumber the sick and twisted LPs, but can´t win if they won´t fight the war (and treat it seriously as a war).


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: SGMIsles, 1/8/2013 11:36:24 AM     (No. 9105010)

When will these two go away?


Reply 4 - Posted by: Happy Trails, 1/8/2013 11:44:41 AM     (No. 9105030)

Mind altering drugs, prescription drugs pushed on children, produce this murderous rage and confusion. It´s this stimulant to madness that will perpetuate this behavior. Don´t be stupid, the disease is in the mind, and the disarming of the citizen supports the tyrant, who´s agenda is to promote chaos like this, so that you are defenseless to stop it. Communist Russia, Communist China, Nazi Germany, now the communists in the White House all want you defenseless against them. Give up your guns to them and be their stooge. Rights are to be exercised, and now. Obama is not your friend.


Reply 5 - Posted by: CEP, 1/8/2013 11:52:10 AM     (No. 9105048)

Seems like there are a lot of initiatives started after something happens. Just name it and you´ll find this group or that group always someone who wants to so called be outfront of something. It´s sad that this happened to Giffords but I´m sure that in any big city hospital there are many that it has happened to. It´s calls crazy people and the rest is gang mentality.


Reply 6 - Posted by: FL_Absentee_Voter, 1/8/2013 11:52:10 AM     (No. 9105049)

She was shot by an individual who used a legally-purchased semi-automatic handgun. Short of banning such a weapon from possession, what´s the intent of their "gun control" initiative?


Reply 7 - Posted by: Keekng, 1/8/2013 11:56:09 AM     (No. 9105055)

Glock toting Gabby wants Mark Kelly to run for office.....Any office to keep them in the limelight. Notice that neat jacket with lots of patches he was wearing? Bam Bam would like to have a jacket like that! Bwahahahaha


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: bmw50, 1/8/2013 11:58:36 AM     (No. 9105061)

I´ve yet to see a gun jump up and kill someone. In every case, there was a person squeezing the trigger, every time.

So if a gun can´t kill anybody on it´s own, shouldn´t the attention be toward the shooter, the mental health of the person and the moral health of our culture and our society instead?

According to Democrats, No! Democrats want to live the most perverse and destructive lifestyles without any consequences. They want no moral judgments, not moral standards and nobody telling them what is right or wrong. In a world where there is no morals and no absolutes, the only way to maintain a society is to romove anything that will hurt us. It´s much easier than making moral judgments and holding people responsible for their actions.

The problem is, government cannot create eneough laws and regulations to make people moral. But Democrats can´t quit trying because the alternative is obedience to God... and they have no use for God... after all, they like being God.


Reply 9 - Posted by: Mike PHX, 1/8/2013 12:01:02 PM     (No. 9105069)

It must really suck to be a dwarf and married to a disabled person. That goes for both of them and is the extent of my sympathy.


Reply 10 - Posted by: trapper, 1/8/2013 12:08:02 PM     (No. 9105081)

"Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband..."

The operative word in that phrase being "former." She is no longer in Congress, and he is just the "husband of a former." So they are now just two more aimless celebrities, running from camera to camera in a desperate attempt to hog attention to themselves. They actually showed up in Newtown. They have crossed the line and are now just icky. Should we watch for their appearance on a reality TV show?


Reply 11 - Posted by: veritas, 1/8/2013 12:09:23 PM     (No. 9105084)

Well, I see both have repudiated their oaths to support and defend the Constitution.

Murder is illegal everywhere. That doesn´t seem to help stop evil crazy people, though. Nor will it ever, barring a huge change in human nature.

It´s not about the guns. It´s all about control.


Reply 12 - Posted by: gabula, 1/8/2013 12:10:15 PM     (No. 9105086)

I now refer to her as: Gabby "James Brady" Giffords.

Gabula


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: zephyrgirl, 1/8/2013 12:15:27 PM     (No. 9105096)

For some reason, when I see those two I think of a ventriloquist and his dummy.


Reply 14 - Posted by: flyonthewall, 1/8/2013 12:16:23 PM     (No. 9105097)

Trot out the victims of leftwing ideology, Ann Coulter exposed this formula with the 911 widowd


Reply 15 - Posted by: Patchy Groundfog, 1/8/2013 12:34:05 PM     (No. 9105139)

I´m sure that the Giffords will decline any salary, donations, speaking fees or other personal enrichment from their noble cause.


Reply 16 - Posted by: Talk2, 1/8/2013 12:42:01 PM     (No. 9105160)

The woman has a right to be concerned about gun violence, but not a right to take away legally purchased weapons.


Reply 17 - Posted by: johnr, 1/8/2013 12:43:56 PM     (No. 9105168)

i´m a zonie & tired of the 2 attention seeks for any cause that gets their faces in the paper & on t.v. ....


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: farmwife, 1/8/2013 12:44:30 PM     (No. 9105170)

Look at MEE! Look at MEE! They don´t want people to forget how important they are, and Mr. Gabby Gifford will be running for something soon. Don´t want to leave the gravy train.


Reply 19 - Posted by: msjena, 1/8/2013 12:54:20 PM     (No. 9105196)

No, a truthful headline would read Mark Kelly uses his wife´s injury to keep his name in the headline and hopefully find a way to make some money of a tragedy.


Reply 20 - Posted by: bighambone, 1/8/2013 1:06:55 PM     (No. 9105219)

That the liberal Democrats are really after is the conservative oriented small arms industry and all the other firearms related industries in the USA. If those industries are wiped out by a ban on the production and sale of almost all modern firearms, the liberal Democrats believe that they would also wipe out the NRA. In doing that the liberal Democrats would also be wiping out tens of thousands of well paying American jobs.

By doing that, the liberal Democrats are also distracting attention away from a liberal Democrat constituency group, the combined mental health industry, and the mentally ill themselves, who have perpetrated just about all the mass shootings as most of those people tried to bring attention to themselves while on their personal suicide missions.


Reply 21 - Posted by: hot coffee, 1/8/2013 1:18:36 PM     (No. 9105243)

Obviously these two will concentrate their efforts on the real problem: guns held by the mentally deranged on mind-altering drugs and inner-city gang bangers.

Or maybe not.


Reply 22 - Posted by: altoona, 1/8/2013 1:20:12 PM     (No. 9105248)

Gabby unnecessarily insulted her nutty shooter at a prior meet up in front of a crowd. He asked a nonsensical question thinking he was being erudite and she blew him off, letting him know what she thought of him. His fragile ego then needed revenge. She was always a bit of a smart alec, as I understand it.
Did she deserve to get shot? No. Would the nutcase have exploded at some point at someone else? Very likely.
The fact is that liberal killer from a liberal household was a fan of hers until the insult. All things never to be mentioned.


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: dman, 1/8/2013 1:25:15 PM     (No. 9105257)

Jim and Sarah Brady redux. Good law does not come from emotion and guilt trips. How many patriots have died to protect our rights - including our right to bear arms? It´s about liberty.


Reply 24 - Posted by: dvc, 1/8/2013 1:40:42 PM     (No. 9105293)

If he had run her down with his truck, would we be hearing about ´truck control´ or about the need to deal with lunatics running loose?

The inanimate object is easy to blame by the intellectually lazy that are unwilling to realize that a certain minority of mentally unstable people just cannot be wandering loose. But this might hurt somebody´s feelings and would require hard choices and difficult, adult decision making. Easier to attack a "bad" object. Simplistic, ignorant totemism.


Reply 25 - Posted by: tedinmich, 1/8/2013 1:41:36 PM     (No. 9105295)

Poop on both of the giffords!!


Reply 26 - Posted by: krause, 1/8/2013 1:51:46 PM     (No. 9105319)

Taking advantage of a hot button issue. Now they´ll get some sort of grant, and they have new careers, highly paid I´m sure.


Reply 27 - Posted by: TXknitter, 1/8/2013 2:07:22 PM     (No. 9105362)

I find this professional victimhood thing disgusting. Yes, Ms. Giffords, I am talking to you. This whole thing is not just the husband. They both intend to make a career out of this whole thing.


Reply 28 - Posted by: Hammock, 1/8/2013 2:13:45 PM     (No. 9105376)

I have my doubts about the former politician´s ability to set things up like this. My belief is that the poor thing is damaged enough that it´s all on her husband. Just as high-paid Sarah Brady is behind her own gig and her husband is so damaged he is along for the ride.


Reply 29 - Posted by: chief1942, 1/8/2013 2:19:13 PM     (No. 9105387)

Simply two more faces to add to the chorus of 2nd Amendment demonizers. Since both their professional careers have drawn to a close, this gives them a way to keep the $$$$ rolling in.


Reply 30 - Posted by: Italiano, 1/8/2013 2:26:20 PM     (No. 9105401)

Every time I read or hear "Gabby Giffords," I find that I care even less than I did the time before.


Reply 31 - Posted by: Rafter, 1/8/2013 2:35:34 PM     (No. 9105425)

#22, thanks for the enlightenment.
Did not know that until now.
If a Republican had been guilty of such a faux pas...
that´s all we´d ever hear about.
"He/She provoked his constituent... !!"

As for my personal response to these Klownz...

Half my brain...


Reply 32 - Posted by: Mike43, 1/8/2013 4:12:43 PM     (No. 9105619)

As I have some experience working with brain injured patients, I think the commenter who suggested the ventriliquist and the puppet is close to the mark.

Given the location, and severity of her wound, I don´t think her cognitive skills are strong enough to co-write anything. The last time I saw her speak, it was halting, painful and cued by Mark Kelly.

And it was the Pledge of Allegiance.


Reply 33 - Posted by: BigGeorgeTX, 1/8/2013 4:49:00 PM     (No. 9105684)

I see Gabby has found a way to keep the bucks flowing.



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