Posted on 12/21/2012 6:47:10 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
The husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords ripped the National Rifle Association (NRA) on Friday for a press conference that defied “common sense” and defended “extreme pro-gun positions.”
“Gabby and I are extremely disappointed by the NRA's defiant and delayed response to the massacre of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School,” Mark Kelly said in a statement.
“The NRA could have chosen to be a voice for the vast majority of its own members who want common-sense, reasonable safeguards on deadly firearms, but instead it chose to defend extreme pro-gun positions that aren't even popular among the law-abiding gun owners it represents.”
Giffords nearly died in January 2011 after a lone gunman opened fire on an event the congresswoman was holding to meet with constituents. Six people were killed in the shooting, including a federal judge.
The assassination attempt by Jared Loughner is one of a string of mass shootings over the last few years. The latest occurred last week in Newtown, Conn., where 26 people — including 20 6- and 7-year-olds — were killed by another lone gunman.
Kelly spoke out after a press conference by NRA President Wayne LaPierre, which broke a weeklong silence by the group.
LaPierre called for a national program to put armed guards in every school around the country, arguing “the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”
LaPierre also criticized gun-free school zones, saying that they indicated to “every insane killer in America” that they could safely inflict “maximum mayhem with minimum risk.”
The presser, which Kelly described as a “defiant and delayed response,” received immediate heat from Democrats on Twitter, and reaction from liberals like New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I) has been overwhelmingly negative.
Kelly was in Beijing on the day of the Sandy Hook shooting, but posted that the victims of mass shootings “deserve leaders who have the courage to participate in a meaningful discussion about our gun laws — and how they can be reformed and better enforced to prevent gun violence and death in America.”
Bull Crap statement!
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Yes, he’s talking out his rear end
Astronaut or not all I have to say to this clown is...show us *your* firearm collection,pal!
>>The NRA could have chosen to be a voice for the vast majority of its own members who want common-sense, reasonable safeguards on deadly firearms
100% of the NRA members I know (which is almost everyone I know) want criminals punished, crazy people treated, and guns on the hip of every law-abiding citizen who wants to carry one.
Mark, I'm really disappointed to find out you are just another ignorant, blithering idiot.
While hiding behind his wife.
“Gabby and I are extremely disappointed by the NRA’s defiant and delayed response to the massacre of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School,” Mark Kelly said in a statement.”
Does it look like I give a F*** what you think. The Bolsheviks are trotting everybody out now to shill for them.
Astronaut or not, this guy is an embarrassment every time he opens his mouth. I’m sorry for his wife’s injuries, but she was also an embarrassment. Her only memorable moment in congress when when she tried to make a grandstand play for a media soundbite by asking Gen. David Patreus (during his testimony before the house) what he was doing to reduce the carbon footprint of the army in Afghanistan.
And did this jackass rip the media, Pelosi and Pals who tried to blame Rush, talk radio. Palin etc?
Funny how people were to blame in his instance, but guns are somehow the problem here.
What a loser.
Which astronaut that has spoken out on anything political hasn’t been a blithering leftard? Starting with john glenn
Mark Kelly is an active astronaut with NASA. He should be relieved
of his duty immediately.
Yeah, how stupid to wait for the authorities to do a thorough investigation before invoking politics(including code pink)into the discussion.
Too bad someone in the crowd didn’t have a CCW.
Perhaps they could have taken out Loughner before he got to the rep.
We have tried Firearms Prohibition.
It has not worked.
What the left has proven is that if you are unarmed, you are defenseless, and if you are defenseless, you are very likely to be a victim. Time and time again we have proven that law enforcement is not there to prevent violent crime but to draw chalk outlines of the victims.
It is time to allow schools to hire armed security if they so choose or to allow principals and teachers who want to undergo training and certification in firearms to do do and carry if they so desire.
I don’t think he plans on hiding behind his wife.
I think he plans on pimping her the way Sarah Brady pimped her husband.
These libs are nauseating.
I will defend my extreme pro-gun stance with my life,you commie cowards.
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