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Topic: Giffords pleads on gun control: ‘Let’s get this done’ |
Giffords pleads on gun control: ‘Let’s get this done’
New York Daily News, by Dan Hirschhorn
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Posted By:JoniTx, 2/11/2013 5:33:47 PM
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| Gabby Giffords is taking her campaign for gun control to the airwaves. Giffords, the former Arizona congresswoman who was shot in the head in 2011, launches a new TV ad this week through her recently-formed "super PAC." The 30-second spot, in which Giffords herself implores America to "get this done," is targeting congressional leaders with ad buys that will reach constituents of House Speaker John Boehner, House Minority Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Over pictures of grieving families after recent massacres in Newtown, Aurora and Tucson, Giffords, who is still
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Coy860, 2/11/2013 5:41:35 PM (No. 9170862)
Turn in your own gun, leave me alone.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
JAN, 2/11/2013 5:41:53 PM (No. 9170863)
Guess she and her piggish husband would prefer the people in CA would have no way to defend themselves.
For shame.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
rubberneck, 2/11/2013 5:43:41 PM (No. 9170867)
By all means, let´s make raw emotion take precedent over rational thought and an honest "conversation." (That word sucks!)
I pity Ms. Giffords. Apparently she used to be a proponent of the 2nd Amendment, and the right of law-abiding citizens to have their guns. Now it´s impossible to tell whether she´s truly voicing her own opinions, or whether they are the opinions of the Puppet-Master, a la James Baker.
(I hope she continues to improve from her tragic injury at the hand of an insane criminal.)
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
rubberneck, 2/11/2013 5:45:03 PM (No. 9170871)
Sorry! I meant James Brady.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Namma, 2/11/2013 5:46:41 PM (No. 9170874)
get the right kind of mental health care for people that need it...and leave my guns alone and I bet that the Giffords know this..they are just pandering to obama
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bkt23, 2/11/2013 5:47:12 PM (No. 9170876)
I have regret and pity for your tragic, senseless plight, Ms. Giffords.
But when you advocate disarming my family so that the same thing that happened to you can more easily happen to my family, we part company. I´ll keep my guns. I suggest you do likewise, but that´s your choice.
No law would or could have prevented what happened to you. No law will disarm me.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
ronnietheK, 2/11/2013 5:47:42 PM (No. 9170877)
Shut up and get off the stage. Sorry you were attacked. Guns in hands of nuts are a problem. Can´t solve it by taking everyone´s guns away.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
oh-heck, 2/11/2013 5:49:52 PM (No. 9170879)
What is it you want done? Do you want to make public the list of Americans that have major psychological problems and should never have a gun? How about the convicted felons who have done their time? Are you going to make that list public? Or are you proposing to only publish that information for those who own a gun? What is you concept of Constitutional law. I inherited a pistol and completed FFL paperwork to transfer a non-functioning pistol. Should I have less rights than convicted rapist?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
starkness, 2/11/2013 5:50:20 PM (No. 9170881)
by all means let´s pass another idiotic gun law! We can call it the Christopher Dorner Act!!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 2/11/2013 5:50:40 PM (No. 9170883)
I predict a run on shovels at Home Depot as people look for a good place to bury their guns when the Feds come looking for them....
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
capt scurvey, 2/11/2013 5:50:49 PM (No. 9170885)
Even headshots can´t stop the motivated liberal...
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Mike PHX, 2/11/2013 5:58:32 PM (No. 9170902)
I don´t blame her. I blame her husband, Edgar Bergen.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 2/11/2013 6:01:04 PM (No. 9170907)
There is some degree of irony in the fact that Giffords was not eligible to serve in congress from Arizona, because she lived in Houston with her famewhore husband, astronaut kelly. And had she not been a member of congress, the crazy lad would not have shot her.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
JimS, 2/11/2013 6:06:28 PM (No. 9170913)
Spoken by the stupid Leftist who would not be here today running her mouth, showing her ignorance, if there had not been a bystander with a concealed carry permit, and who stopped further bloodshed.
Thought we´d forget that part of your sob story, Gabby?
If you had a lick of sense in what remains of your brain, you would be pro-2nd Amendment, pro-CC
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
sliver of truth, 2/11/2013 6:07:03 PM (No. 9170914)
#13 - ROFLMAO
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Jethro bo, 2/11/2013 6:10:25 PM (No. 9170922)
Would a background check prevent the recent schools shootings? No. Would background checks stop the Clifford shootings? No. Would a background check have stopped VT shootings? No. In other words, she proposes nothing new except another intrusion on law abiding citizens to once again accomplish nothing except to diminish our freedoms once again. Lets do the research to identify the most common causes of these shootings and then address it with effective measures. Lets stop demanding the same failed policies and hoping for a better outcome.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
jackie, 2/11/2013 6:11:25 PM (No. 9170923)
Ah yes..another stupid do nothing law... and should they call it the "Gifford Bill" ala the "Brady Bill"? Will that satisfy the fame seeking husband... He reminds me Valerie Plame´s creepy husband...Hollywood Joe....
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Hooter, 2/11/2013 6:17:11 PM (No. 9170933)
Yes, let´s get it done!!! End the hypocrisy of gun free zones and save lifes.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
jalo1951, 2/11/2013 6:22:15 PM (No. 9170938)
And if one of two people in the crowd had concealed weapons things might have turned out differently.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 2/11/2013 6:23:16 PM (No. 9170939)
The Edgar Burgen comment was great.
Poor Gabby....at least she makes Nancy Pelosi look good....kinda.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
blunderbuss, 2/11/2013 6:25:17 PM (No. 9170941)
She is shamefully being used as a anti 2A prop. Probably negligently stand her in the corner between photo ops with a drool bucket underneath.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
curious1, 2/11/2013 6:26:17 PM (No. 9170946)
I´m all for repealing the remains of the 1934 GCA, the 1968 GCA and the 1986 FOPA - Let´s get it done! Back to the way it was in 1933, where you could order a Thompson by mail and get it a few days later. Let´s trim these nimrods back to their roots.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
keekng, 2/11/2013 6:30:05 PM (No. 9170949)
#13, that was cold, I love it! When she says, "Lets get it done", is she saying, gimme one for the gipper? Has she turned in her Glock since she is now obviously impaired and prejudiced?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
MsZzroyal, 2/11/2013 6:42:53 PM (No. 9170965)
This is all about for husband to run for the office she held..in 2014, after all he is out of work.
I fell sorry for her...but she didn´t even know that the shooter wasn´t dead...she said "Isn´t he dead yet?"
They are using her.....including her husband.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
artman1746, 2/11/2013 6:48:33 PM (No. 9170968)
Let´s see. Start a Pac that pays all you travel expenses; stay in the finest hotels; pick some excuses for traveling to the greatest destinations; dine on the finest foods and the most expensive restaurants; travel the nation and maybe some world travel as well ( who would dare to call a n audit on the pity party.
A good life if you can get it!
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
volksford, 2/11/2013 6:48:39 PM (No. 9170969)
Staged question and staged reply.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
pineledger, 2/11/2013 6:49:21 PM (No. 9170970)
I don´t see why we should listen to her.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
LC Hoghead, 2/11/2013 7:10:07 PM (No. 9170997)
There is some degree of irony in the fact that Giffords was not eligible to serve in congress from Arizona, because she lived in Houston with her famewhore husband, astronaut kelly.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
SourKraut, 2/11/2013 7:15:23 PM (No. 9171006)
She better get some older clothes to wear, going under the bus is tough on the duds.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Sanspeur, 2/11/2013 7:18:06 PM (No. 9171011)
So when you become a wreck from a horrible murderous event.. You are entitled to repeal all OUR Constitutional rights?
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet, 2/11/2013 7:34:42 PM (No. 9171030)
Giffords is being used by the gun grabbers.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
BigGeorgeTX, 2/11/2013 7:40:38 PM (No. 9171036)
Gabby Giffords is the Cindy Sheehan of gun control.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
coldoc, 2/11/2013 8:22:05 PM (No. 9171069)
Maybe you should ask your sheriff dupnik why loughner, a known screwball, wasn´t prevented from buying guns. Why did dupnik fail to protect his citizens?
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
antiquegolf, 2/11/2013 8:48:17 PM (No. 9171087)
Left wing ghouls exploited gifford´s plight almost immediately after the shooting. Reports cited that she was moderate from a competitive district and pro 2nd Amendment. That narrative was mostly false. giffords is and always was a liberal. She posed as a 2nd Amemdment advocate to pander to conservat
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
hamrman, 2/11/2013 8:48:22 PM (No. 9171088)
Get real and leave me out of your liberal shenanigans!
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
antiquegolf, 2/11/2013 8:57:22 PM (No. 9171098)
Conservatives in her district. obama showed up for the photo op and said pelosi and wassserman-schultz were in the room when gabby opened her eyes for the first time. That was another lie, as pelosi was not at the hospital let alone in the room with gabby. Then gabby´s pig husband slammed Sarah Palin over a campaign brochure that used a target motif. Liberals clearly have no limits.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
NRA_Forever, 2/11/2013 9:24:41 PM (No. 9171122)
I feel terrible about what happened to this poor woman and the other victims that died. However, the disgusting, insane individual that perpetrated this heinous act has absolutely nothing to do with me. I will not have my unalienable Constitutional rights taken away because a brain-damaged hysterical woman demands it.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
thewarden, 2/11/2013 9:39:28 PM (No. 9171136)
My sympathy for her stops with her attempts to turn me and my family into crime victims by taking away our rights to protect ourselves. Shut up, Gaby.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Italiano, 2/11/2013 9:47:18 PM (No. 9171150)
Gabby, please. Just shut up.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
reilly, 2/11/2013 9:50:43 PM (No. 9171157)
Gabby, we cannot trust you and the government. I´m sorry about your affliction, but please stop.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
zzzghy, 2/11/2013 9:50:46 PM (No. 9171158)
It IS done. It´s been done since the Second Ammendment was penned.
Sorry about what happened to you. That could´ve been prevented if your supporters weren´t walking around dumb, unarmed and unprepared.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
get er done, 2/11/2013 10:59:51 PM (No. 9171219)
I seem to recall an article after the Giffords shooting which stated that Giffords had received threats, but did not have an adequate security detail, and we all know the result of her lax security. Sadly, others are dead due to lax security.
The logical conclusion from her experience should be that Americans need increased security to protect them against gun violence, NOT disarmament.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 2/12/2013 12:20:48 AM (No. 9171275)
I am really sorry about her being shot while serving as an elected official. However, what her husband is doing by dragging her around as the dummy for Edgar Bergen is more shameful. Somehow I think he has to remind her what breakfast cereal is today. That´s unforgivable.
Her good buddy Debbie, isn´t telling him to keep her at home either.
All for the cause.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
Mr. Hanky, 2/12/2013 1:19:20 AM (No. 9171294)
I feel sympathy for Gabby Giffords and all the victims of Jared Laughner, however, disarming law-abiding citizens isn´t the answer.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
readaholic, 2/12/2013 1:34:12 AM (No. 9171303)
After seeing the way Debbie Was-A-Man-Shultz herded Giffords around oh-so carefully at the demonrat convention it´s obvious the unfortunate Ms. G hasn´t two functioning brain cells left to rub together, so why should we care what she "thinks"? -- LOL #13.
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