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Gabby Giffords launches group to counter gun lobby
NBC ^ | 1/8/2013 | Alastair Jamieson

Posted on 01/08/2013 5:45:52 AM PST by tobyhill

A national initiative aimed at curbing gun violence was launched by former US. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, on Tuesday -- the second anniversary of the shooting that killed six people and left her critically injured.

A new campaign website, Americans For Responsible Solutions, promised to “launch a national dialogue and raise funds to counter influence of the gun lobby.”

The couple last week visited Newtown, Conn., where a gunman opened fire in an elementary school, killing 20 children and six adults in December. They also met with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a gun control advocate.

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KEYWORDS: banglist; bloomberg; bloombergfunding; bloombergpropaganda; giffords; guncontrol; nocompromise; secondamendment; youwillnotdisarmus
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1 posted on 01/08/2013 5:45:55 AM PST by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill

Everyone should go to their local news site’s message boards and post Armed Citizen stories and links in their message boards, with links and such.
Counter this crap with facts.

I did it here:
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/u-s-world/former-us-rep-gabrielle-giffords-launches-initiative-to-reduce-gun-violence-fight-gun-lobby


2 posted on 01/08/2013 5:48:14 AM PST by RandallFlagg ("Liberalism is about as progressive as CANCER" -Alfonzo Rachel)
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To: tobyhill

you would have thought that a politician out in public talking with the voters in a large group would have had police presence or a private guards stationed about.

I am not a politician, nor do I play one on TV...but if I was going out in public glad handing, I do believe I would have brought along protection in one form or another.


3 posted on 01/08/2013 5:53:08 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: tobyhill

Its sucks what happened to her, but quite frankly, Im sick of hearing about this woman and her efforts toward a liberal agenda.


4 posted on 01/08/2013 5:53:54 AM PST by ObozoMustGo2012
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To: tobyhill

Yep. Everyone should wait for the police to come rescue them, like Gabby did. And how well did THAT work out?

If she was honest, she would press for laws to open up mental illness records and to make it easier for nuts to be committed to an institution. THAT is a gun violence law I could support...


5 posted on 01/08/2013 5:54:19 AM PST by Mr Rogers (America is becoming California, and California is becoming Detroit. Detroit is already hell.)
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To: tobyhill
launch a national dialogue and raise funds to counter influence of the gun lobby.


She will receive probably 80% of those proceeds for her valuable time.
Hunger organizations do this on the backs of starving women and children.

The rest of the money will be doled out to her high end supporters. As long as there are
no promises of investment return it's totally legal, just not morally. Pyramid scheme, or Ponzi?

6 posted on 01/08/2013 5:56:32 AM PST by MaxMax (Gun free zones was the invitation to gun bans)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

I wonder who is pulling her strings lately....

Can’t believe she’s energetic enough to be initiating these things herself.


7 posted on 01/08/2013 5:58:09 AM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: tobyhill

Seriously... just time in front of the camera. Don’t these people ever get tired of their own blah blah blah? I am not taking anything away from her being a victim... I cannot imagine the moments of terror. But seriously, guns do no horror without a criminal behind the trigger. What part of physics class did she sleep through. Inanimate objects are simply that. Bully pulpit alert.


8 posted on 01/08/2013 6:00:44 AM PST by momincombatboots (Back to West by G-d Virginia.)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

During the Obamacare fiasco, she didn’t want to meet with ANY constituents. After a series of protests outside her vacant Tucson office forced her hand, she made it clear at the townhall meetings that there was only ONE constituent she cared about - Nancy Pelosi.

Giffords managed to get reelected after boasting of her endorsement by the VFW. The truth was the VFW PAC endorsed her, and then the VFW disbanded their PAC and repudiated the endorsement - but that didn’t stop Gabby from flooding the area with signs saying the VFW supported her.

She was a lying bitch turned into a political saint by being shot by a madman. She refused to resign her seat until she had enough time in to get a lifetime pension and healthcare, and she will now ride the political fame of being shot for the rest of her life.

Her husband sucks too...


9 posted on 01/08/2013 6:01:53 AM PST by Mr Rogers (America is becoming California, and California is becoming Detroit. Detroit is already hell.)
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To: tobyhill
I guess James Brady must be getting too old, Giffords is going to take his place as the “victim on parade” that is rolled out by the gun grabbers at all their press events.
10 posted on 01/08/2013 6:02:12 AM PST by apillar
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To: Mr Rogers

Best post of the day.


11 posted on 01/08/2013 6:05:05 AM PST by ILS21R (Everything is a conspiracy. No? You're living in one.)
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To: tobyhill

> raise funds to counter influence

And now these shysters have their useful retard to carry the water. America is full of suckers to fund these misfits for life.


12 posted on 01/08/2013 6:07:29 AM PST by soycd
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To: tobyhill

Agree with everything mentioned by posters. Sick of Gabby and her husband going around pandering. She chose the public square life so live with the consequence.


13 posted on 01/08/2013 6:09:34 AM PST by YukonGreen
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To: tobyhill

Agree with everything mentioned by posters. Sick of Gabby and her husband going around pandering. She chose the public square life so live with the consequence.


14 posted on 01/08/2013 6:09:47 AM PST by YukonGreen
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To: Vaquero
She forgot all that stuff, and by now has forgiven the mad dog killer who shot her. Now it's time for her revenge on innocent parties who never did anything to anyone.

As I've said repeatedly, Democrats do not have any morals.

15 posted on 01/08/2013 6:10:53 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: tobyhill

More shameless emotional exploitation and demagoguery by the radical left.


16 posted on 01/08/2013 6:12:22 AM PST by Obadiah (It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.)
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To: tobyhill
Will Gifford acknowledge that someone at her shooting had a CCL and was instrumental in subduing the perp?

No, I didn't think so...

17 posted on 01/08/2013 6:13:16 AM PST by TADSLOS (I took extra credit at the School of Hard Knocks)
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To: treetopsandroofs
I wonder who is pulling her strings lately.... Can’t believe she’s energetic enough to be initiating these things herself.

I agree about the energetic part and about someone pulling her strings. Liberals, socialists, and all who hate an armed citizenry are the ones pulling her strings.

18 posted on 01/08/2013 6:18:09 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: tobyhill

i lost any and all respect for her now that she’s trying to cash in on her injury....she’s trying to do for gun control what al gore did for environmentalism.


19 posted on 01/08/2013 6:25:18 AM PST by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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