[Clintons-B-Gone]

I think it's creepy to use your wounded spouse to advance a cause that person might not have supported before the attack.

[Oberon]

It is rather telling that a dedicated Republican converted to being pro gun control after significant brain damage.

[MuttTheHoople]

Anti gunners: Taking Advantage of Tragedy?

Do fat pigs fart?

[MuttTheHoople]

Anti gunners: Taking Advantage of Tragedy?

Do fat pigs fart?

[cuban leaf]

I heard her speech on NPR no fewer than 15 times in two days on NPR. Every time I felt terrible for her for exactly the reason the article mentions.

If one was against cars they could easily find someone brain damaged in a car accident. If they could get that person to make the EXACT SAME SPEECH that she gave, only about cars instead of guns, it would have the same effect on me: None, other than to pity her for being used by others.

This is also what liberals do.

[BuffaloJack]

If someone tells you that they don’t own a gun, because the police will protect them, then ask them if they own a fire extinguisher.
I own a fire extinguishe, because too much damage would occur waiting for firemen to arrive.
I own a gun, because I don’t want to be killed or members of my family to be killed waiting for police to come from a 911 call.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

How about Cindy Sheehan, who though her son rejected her radicalism, and joined the military, and she rejected him as well for his service, once he was dead, she was more than happy to wave his “bloody shirt”(*) around?

(*) “Waving the bloody shirt” goes all the way back to Shakespeare, in Julius Caesar, but in American history “the phrase gained popularity with a fictitious incident in which Benjamin Franklin Butler of Massachusetts, when making a speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, allegedly held up a shirt stained with the blood of a carpetbagger whipped by the Ku Klux Klan. (While Butler did give a speech condemning the Klan, he never waved anyone’s bloody shirt.)”

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Gabby like guns! See Gabby smile! "Bang!Bang!"

[Oatka]

Every time the liberals wheeled that poor man out in front of the public, they reminded me of the old black and white jungle pictures where the witch doctor shakes this doll at the people and scare the daylights out of them. The liberals hoped he'd have the same effect on the public, and for a while, it did. Now he's been replaced by Giffords.

There is one side benefit to some though - these "in memory of" organizations that spring up in response to these tragedies create some nice six-figure a year positions, that, like the TV evangelists, always need annual refreshing, even though 90% or so is eaten up in "administrative purposes".

In 2010, the Brady Bunch took in $3-million plus and spent $1.8 in salaries and "fundraising fees" and $1.2 million in "other expenses".

See Reports.