Posted on 01/16/2011 10:38:34 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan
TUCSON, Ariz. -- Thousands of weapons enthusiasts, many openly packing heat, crammed into an Arizona gun show chock full of high-powered rifles and semiautomatic pistols yesterday -- a mere 13 miles away from last weekend's rampage.
Despite the 4,500 who filed into the Crossroads of the West Gun Show at the Pima County Fairgrounds throughout the day, a donation box at the entrance for the six dead and 13 wounded, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, sat nearly empty.
The audacious showing came as Giffords continued her miraculous recovery, with doctors removing her ventilator by inserting a tube in her windpipe to allow her to breathe without the help of machines.
Some 7,000 people are expected to attend the two-day gun extravaganza that features more than 100 vendors hawking massive arsenals of AK-47s, assault weapons, sniper gear and ammo.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
The dems were expecting Giffords to die.
Oh the horror! They were only 13 miles away! What if one of those guns escaped!
Anybody that uses the phrase packing heat is suspect in my opinion and learned all they know of shooting and guns from movies.
Yeah...I think I will stick with my Bible and Guns. God, Guts and Guns...Salvation, Determination and Self protection.
When there is no news....create it.
Oh my goodness, they must all have been criminals, since they were "packing heat"!
"a mere 13 miles away from last weekend's rampage."
Gasp! That's practically across the street!
" Despite the 4,500 who filed into the Crossroads of the West Gun Show at the Pima County Fairgrounds throughout the day, a donation box at the entrance for the six dead and 13 wounded, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, sat nearly empty."
Well, then...I guess maybe the gun show should be forced to donate it's proceeds to the donation box, since it was an eeeeevil gun that caused that pot-smoking, homosexual, deranged Leftist kook Loughner to open fire. /s
I could go on, but this is too easy.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Just damn, sorry I missed that one, she looks to have been a good one.
“...a donation box at the entrance for the six dead and 13 wounded, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, sat nearly empty.”
Colleen Bush, the ‘author’ of this so-called article didn’t say what time of day she saw this “nearly empty” box. Either she was the first one in or it had been emptied a dozen times already. Gun owners are known to be generous to innocent victims of gun violence.
Filling up another barf-bag.
The author writes like this gun show was planned after the Giffords shooting, when any sane person realizes it was scheduled months ago. What an idiot. The NY Post should be ashamed of itself.
Might have been a different news week if there were a crowd of open carry at Walgreens last week.
These people are total control freaks.
So how much did she put in the empty box???
“Gun nuts”? Did they not get the memo on civility?
Oh Noes!
Gun nuts showing off near site of Ariz. slay rampage
_____________________________________________
To me this headline saye they were on the same block as the Safeway...
13 miles away is not “near site”
“...a donation box at the entrance for the six dead and 13 wounded, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, sat nearly empty.””
The box I saw on TV this AM looked to be about 60 inches tall, about 18 inches square. Tht is a sizeable amount of space.
There was a nice amount of money showing thru the CLEAR walls of apparently plexiglass.
This show was planned for months- such facilities are booked as much as 2 years in advance. There is now way anyone could afford to cancel the event & return vendors fees or throw away all the pre-advertising.
The same show appears in Reno every year. I think they travel all over the western states. No reason to cross the Mississippi.
Gun nuts showing off near site of Ariz. slay rampage
_____________________________________________
Moslem religious nuts showing off near site of NYC slay rampage
and that mosque is just deowen the block...
They hope she will die, as in dead mugged liberals don’t tell tales... tales of the corruption cover up going on between a crazy liberal mother’s son’s mental illness, carried on by Sheriff against the US army recruiters, coming back to haunt them in a shooting of their fellow congress member...
Liberals are the death star.
Nah, we cannot tell about this, we are going to blame guns and gun owners. Too convenient for fed gov. and Marxists.
Not suggesting anything, just asking.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.