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.
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The sheriff STATED to the MEDIA that Giffords was dead.
The Arizona Memorial Ceremony was for her death, but since she wasn't really dead, they threw in the Judge and the little Girl as a Substitution.
Wonder how long they had this Arizona Memorial planned?
“So how much did she put in the empty box???”
Very good question. I’m sure this self-absorbed woman would have mentioned it if she did. Or offer here pay for the day to go to the families. Hypocrites, all of them.
Didn't you know this was not just any gun show, they are selling howitzers and other artillery pieces that can reach 13 MILES!
There's an RPG and grenade show, not to be confused with a gun show, coming up in Houston in a few weeks. Landmines and flamethrowers are two for one.
I see no nobody was shot with any of those guns available.
Perhaps the writer should mention that these people are the responsible gun owners. The ones that gun laws would hope to restrict.
The moslems mentality is that of the captured Iraqi tankist commander making fun of his American counterpart for having a picture of his enemy Romel as a role model.
It’s how they think, like liberals, they want to “speak”, ie. to harass, bully, murder and cut off for good the voices of those who died on the site, and, instead, parading like prostitutes their mosques on sidewalks of NYC. Have at it, I say, let their mosque show off as the whores of Babylon that they are. We need more of that travesty of sand transvestites.
They were also complaining that Sarah Palin is keynote speaker at the Safari Club International convention in Reno at the end of the month.
The media complained that SCI just announced it this week and that it was just so heartless and irresponsible for Palin to attend a show put on by people who hunt with those evil guns.
It’s actually been the lead banner on top half of SCIs website for over a month, and that it was sold out. I was on the website the first of December when my sis told me she had tickets.
Only 13 miles away? 7000 armed citizens and hundreds of vendors with every legal firearm readily available?
Now here's the teachable part: no one was shot. No one was even threatened, apparently. There were no problems whatsoever. Maybe it's true that an armed society is a polite society? But the MSM could never admit that.
If I was a public figure, I might consider a gun show as a safer place to hold a rally...
The headline makes it sound like it was in the parking lot of the Safeway!
You know all the famous stories and movies about the SHOWDOWN in the OLD WEST? One bad guy at each end of the main drag of the town, in a quickdraw shootout?
NEVER HAPPENED. It was all made up by Hollywood based on the old ENGLISH 'dueling pistols'.
All of the bad boys of the old west were shot in the back.
BIG Crossroads of the West Gun Show at the AZ State Fairgrounds in Phoenix next weekend, January 22-23.
The fairgounds are located at 19th and McDowell. (Easy access from I-17.)
See’ya there!
The real question is how much did she take out?
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I still have firearms in my safe.
Very soon, I’ll probably go out and fire some of them at targets!(when the damn weather warms up)
The horror!
100 vendors hawking massive arsenals of AK-47s, assault weapons, sniper gear and ammo.
Yeah, 'sniper gear'. Also called a 'Scope'.
and why would a Gun Show sell ammo? (friggen idiots)
Gun buyers= “gun nuts”
Shopping for guns= “showing off”
13 miles= “near”
You’re right - owning a gun is different than being a liberal who goes in to a political meeting to kill citizens ... I guess that’s a hard one for liberals to understand.
What is the magic number that would be an acceptable distance from the rampage? Apparently there was no "rampage" at the gun show "chock full of high-powered rifles and semiautomatic pistols" with "many openly packing heat".
What a load! (oops, is that violent?) I bet this idiot could write the headline, “Nuts dance around a fire near site of arson fire that killed many” when writing about a Boy Scout Jamboree.
Lots of antique and hard to find ammo there.Reloading supplies too.
13 miles? Uhh NO! Safeways out the northwest end of Tucson in Marana, Fairgrounds are well past city limits to the southeast.
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