Navy ship christened for Giffords, wounded in 2011 shooting

KATV.COM ^ | 13 JUNE 2015 | AP

[JohnBrowdie]

. . . was that on purpose?

[BradyLS]

The sad thing is that I’ll bet it was the best name on the approved list.

[Iron Munro]

Do they have any evil guns aboard?

[DUMBGRUNT]

There are naming conventions to be followed.
Except, when they are not.

Littoral combat ships (LCS) are named for regionally-important U.S. cities and communities.[4] (except for the lead ship of the first two classes for this type, USS Freedom (LCS-1) and USS Independence (LCS-2), and the USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS-10), named for a congresswoman.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_ship_naming_conventions

[novemberslady]

pathetic

[Still Thinking]

Does it have guns? If so, she probably doesn’t approve.

[arthurus]

I hope the Navy Ship has recovered from its wounds.

[Wildbill22]

Ok, having a small underarmed Littoral combat ship named after a luny gun control lib is fine, but the next Ford Class nuclear powered aircraft carrier I want named the USS Ted Nugent.

[central_va]

USS Chris Kyle

[alpo]

There better be a CVA named Enterprise in the works.

And the tradition of naming them after Presidents can be suspended after the GHWB.

[semimojo]

But I think one massive problem in modern politics is a failure to respect everything about our opponents, just because we have real disagreements with them on some issues

Spot on.

[BradyLS]

There better be a CVA named Enterprise in the works.

That's too much to hope for. We'll probably get a drone carrier called the Galactica or Pegasus at this rate!

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

It’s not a battleship.

[Wildbill22]

I like when we named our capital ships after great battles. Ticonderoga, Valley Forge, Coral Sea.

[DakotaGator]

Navy ship christened for Giffords...

I am ashamed.

[batterycommander]

The ship (Little Crappy Ship) has a pea shooter on the bow and two 30MM athwart the Bridge. A well aimed RPG would sink this white elephant.

[montag813]

Disgusting beyond words. I despise this woman and her handlers. As an Arizonan who visited the scene later that day, I was stunned to hear that Giffords not only declined an offer of armed officer protection from the Tucson P.D., but also from the Pima County Sheriff as well. She left her constituents and visitors as sitting ducks at her outdoor town hall in front of a Safeway.

[Kickass Conservative]

What’s next, naming a Submarine after Ted Kennedy?

I’ve got it, The USS Oldsmobile.