Mark Kelly: ‘Middle-Aged White Men’ with Decreased Life Expectancy Cling to Guns

Breitbart ^ | January 3, 2016 | Awr Hawkins

[sauropod]

Mark Kelly can go *entertain* himself!

[Sarah Barracuda]

I think Mr. Kelly needs to take a nice stroll to South Central Los Angeles, lots of white guns there clinging to their guns/sarc.

[ichabod1]

dog bites man. thats why.

[Terry L Smith]

Here’s my take:
I was raised in the NorthEast.
I was an under-classman in the same high school as Sen. Joseph Lieberman, of CT.
There were gang fights, with zip guns, bats, chains and knives between the Puerto Ricans and the Negroes.
There were bombings, not called in fake threats.
There were fires set.
My girlfriend was raped and killed in one of the many staircases between floors, during class time.

This was the last three years of my high school life, before graduation, my military enlistment, and serving in SouthEast Asia.

And these high and mighty pointy heads think to ask me why i would want a firearm???

[Noumenon]

We won’t go quietly. Remember the Ceaucescus.

[Iron Munro]

Gun Store Owner Cancels Mark Kelly's AR-15 Purchase

Mark Kelly Says: Buying AR-15 'pretty easy'

Tuesday Mar 26, 2013

Former astronaut Mark Kelly discusses the steps he and wife Gabrielle Giffords are touting for gun control reform, including the passage of a universal background check law.

An Arizona gun store owner says he will not sell Mark Kelly the AR-15 rifle that the vocal advocate for tighter gun control bought earlier this month.

The manager of the Tucson, Ariz., store where Kelly, husband of former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, bought the firearm has said that he will not complete the March 5 transaction, according to a statement posted on Facebook.

"While I support and respect Mark Kelly's 2nd Amendment rights to purchase, possess, and use firearms in a safe and responsible manner, his recent statements to the media made it clear that his intent in purchasing the Sig Sauer M400 5.56mm rifle from us was for reasons other then [sic] for his personal use," Douglas MacKinlay, owner of Diamondback Police Supply, said in the post.

The store was required to hold the rifle purchased by Kelly for 20 days, MacKinlay told the Associated Press after Kelly purchased the firearm.

"He is a U.S. citizen, an Arizona citizen expressing his Second Amendment rights to purchase and own a firearm," MacKinlay told the AP at the time.

The gun store owner said in his statement posted on Monday that he had reconsidered the sale. MacKinlay did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday morning.

"In light of this fact, I determined that it was in my company’s best interest to terminate this transaction prior to his returning to my store to complete the Federal Form 4473 and NICS [National Instant Criminal Background Check System] background check required of Mr. Kelly before he could take possession of this firearm," MacKinlay said in the statement.

The store sent Kelly a refund last Thursday, according to the statement. Kelly, an astronaut, has promoted tighter gun control since his wife, Giffords, was shot in the head at point-blank range by Jared Loughner in 2011.

The couple launched a new national campaign in January to combat gun violence. Americans for Responsible Solutions was launched "to encourage elected officials to stand up for solutions to prevent gun violence and protect responsible gun ownership."

Kelly, who is a gun owner, has said his purchase was meant to demonstrate how easy it is to buy a semi-automatic rifle.

[bigbob]

This guy is either incredibly stupid, or incredibly unethical, or both.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

I know many young women who also cling to their guns.

And I’d bet my next paycheck that Mark Kelly isn’t man enough to try to disarm any of them.

[castlebrew]

He's a Navy officer . Bergdahl'd his Oath. Traitorous attention-whoring collaborator. Disgrace to the uniform.

[Secret Agent Man]

Did Mark finally donate the AR-15 “assault rifle” he bought in another state to the sheriff to destroy?

Mark’s an olf guy who likes his guns, and Gabby was looking pretty middle aged in her photos of her firing her asault rifle.

[jwalsh07]

Uncle Fester is a moron. Life expectancy for white males is about 80. Though life expectancy for unarmed white males in democrat urban hellholes is considerably less.

[spintreebob]

1) The increased gun sales are women, not men.

2) I live in mostly Black S and E Atlanta. I see many Blacks, whites and Hispanics with both concealed and open carry at Kroger, Walmart, etc. But my neighborhood is very peaceful. I’ve never heard a gun shot ... except NewYears. The number of guns going off from all directions was deafening. So it isn’t just Whites with guns either.

[ichabod1]

They never point out that we NEED guns in this ungodly society because ‘Society’; steadfastly refuses to protect us from those who want to kill us.

[Ronald_Magnus]

I thought they only selected the best and the brightest to be astronauts. Did he get a waiver or what?

[FR_addict]

Horrible school.
You made your point very well. Did they arrest your girlfriend’s murderer?

[maddog55]

Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, keep pushing for stricter gun laws as they continue to own weapons for recreational purposes, including the same type of gun used in the January 2011 shooting rampage that left Giffords wounded.

For target practice, Kelly said he uses a 9 mm Glock with a magazine that can hold 17 rounds. That’s the same kind of handgun that Jared Lee Loughner used when he opened fire outside a Tucson supermarket during a meet-and-greet event organized by Giffords. The shooting injured Giffords and 12 others and left six people dead.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/giffords-kelly-own-guns-while-pushing-gun-control/

[pallis]

It seems to me there are a lot of young black guys with short life spans who are clinging to guns. Hardly a day passes when we don’t hear about blacks killing blacks, or killing people of other races. Most of us old, middle aged, white guys just want to be left alone by all-y’all. Our guns are our way of saying that. Racist and stupid is no way to survive your dumb-assed life.

[CrimsonTidegirl]

There are no words that are strong enough to express my disgust towards this piece of trash. I would bet though, like other liberal elites, he & his home are well protected by those “evil” guns. He just doesn’t like the thought of the “peasants” being able to defend ourselves.

[Fightin Whitey]

These guys get so they seem like they enjoy the role.

They are martyrs and heroes in their own minds and they want to control others’ lives because of one day of evil and helplessness in theirs.

[N. Theknow]

Your wife got shot!

You were no where around.

You blame me, an old white guy, for that?

How does it feel to be publicly castrated by a whacko who damn near killed your wife?

And you disparage others for your failings as a man and husband?

Pathetic mewlings of an incompetent wimp.

You sir, are beneath contempt. An inept, whining, blame-shifting, despicable mound of quivering, spineless gelatin.

Instead of attacking nut jobs like the one who shot your wife, you come after those of us who protect our own.

Protecting our own. A concept of which, you are unfamiliar.