Gabrielle Giffords: Giffords calls out Ayotte [Politico ADMITS Senate Bill Couldn't Stop Newtown]

Union Leader ^ | 5/5/13

[SoFloFreeper]

... I was proud of almost all your New England senators, who listened to their constituents, and put safety over the big money of the gun lobby. But like so many Granite Staters, 89 percent of whom support expanded background checks, I was disappointed with Sen. Kelly Ayotte, who did not listen to her constituents and who alone in New England voted in lockstep with the NRA....

When I voted for health care reform, which was not at all popular among my constituents, I got a lot of angry calls about my vote for health care. I listened. I felt it was our best option to reverse a years-in-the-making crisis of health care costs and affordability...

I heard Sen. Ayotte, at her town hall last week, tell the daughter of murdered Sandy Hook Principal Dawn Hochsprung that she felt she could vote against the background checks bill because expanded background checks might not have prevented the Newtown shooting. But that's not the goal the policy was trying to solve....

I don't believe that political courage means voting lockstep with public opinion. Sometimes, if the evidence isn't there, you take a tough vote that you have to help the public come to understand.

[LibLieSlayer]

Thanks.

LLS

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Giffords still does not realize she was the first one shot, then another, then Judge Roll dead. The reason she is alive is the 9MM bullet. It was not wide enough to do murder on her.

With a limited capacity magazine, (.357 or .45) she would be dead, the second person dead, and Judge Roll still just as dead.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Gabby is an idiot, before and after.

[Oztrich Boy]

“Politicians should follow the passions of their constituents, except, of course, when the constituents are wrong”

[BitWielder1]

How is it courageous to vote in agreement with one public opinion but not with another?
Eye of the beholder, certainly.
Gabby, how is it courageous to disarm the American people?
This is not the time, with increasing unrest and terrorism here and abroad, to leave regular folks defenseless.
Just because you're afraid of guns (understandable) does not mean they are all bad.
It depends on who is holding the gun, as you well know, since your own armed guards and your hubby doesn't seem to bother you.