Posted on 06/26/2025 2:19:54 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Former U.S. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, who successfully ran for Congress in 1996 as a crusader for gun control after a mass shooting on a New York commuter train left her husband dead and her son severely wounded, has died. She was 81.
News of her death was shared Thursday by several elected officials on her native Long Island and by Jay Jacobs, chair of the New York State Democratic Committee. Details about her death were not immediately available.
McCarthy went from political novice to one of the nation’s leading advocates for gun control legislation in the aftermath of the 1993 Long Island Rail Road massacre. However, the suburban New York Democrat found limited success against the National Rifle Association and other Second Amendment advocates.
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“””The famous “shoulder thing that goes up” bit:”””
I think a barrel shroud is the shoulder thing that goes up and holds all the high magazine clips.
What’s going to be next? My cherished underbarrel chupacabra launcher?
Carolyn McCarthy becomes a “good” Democrat.
I’m quite certain she sleeps in hell tonight. And I don’t say that with any pleasure hell is a horrific place and she’s gonna spend an eternity there.
The murder should have met a hail of gun fire and a train car full of smoke.
Larson’s The Far Side has a homeowner confronting a burglar with his Dobie-O-Matic, which is pretty much a Doberman launched from a shoulder-fired slingshot.
Make certain places “gun-free” soft targets,
Which attract maniacs like blue-bottle flies to a fresh cow patty, then
$*** happens.
“We need more safe places!”. This dead broad, good riddance
Stop being nice to these screwballs.
Yes. Her husband. I suspect that she was an autocratic harpy of a wife, and with him gone , she turned it on everyone else.
I prefer “Woe unto thee who call evil good and good evil.” This was a dreadful person in the way she used her power.
I absolutely disagree. Though I am aligned 180-degrees in opposition to her thoughts on gun control, that doesn't make her a bad person. Her salvation from hell is much more based on whether she received Christ as her Savior, and if she chose not to willfully sin on a regular basis.
Sliwa had his chance. There’s no reason to suggest he’d do any better this time around. Best to stick with Adams.
Nothing. I was talking about Diana DeGette.
OK...but you posted a pic of DiFi.
One of my favorite pictutes, That's Diana DeGette looking on lovingly in the background:
oh. thanks.
Yep, The NYS GOP State Party crashed and burned, terrible shame.
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