Posted on 01/08/2013 5:45:52 AM PST by tobyhill
A national initiative aimed at curbing gun violence was launched by former US. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, on Tuesday -- the second anniversary of the shooting that killed six people and left her critically injured.
A new campaign website, Americans For Responsible Solutions, promised to launch a national dialogue and raise funds to counter influence of the gun lobby.
The couple last week visited Newtown, Conn., where a gunman opened fire in an elementary school, killing 20 children and six adults in December. They also met with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a gun control advocate.
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Everyone should go to their local news site’s message boards and post Armed Citizen stories and links in their message boards, with links and such.
Counter this crap with facts.
you would have thought that a politician out in public talking with the voters in a large group would have had police presence or a private guards stationed about.
I am not a politician, nor do I play one on TV...but if I was going out in public glad handing, I do believe I would have brought along protection in one form or another.
Its sucks what happened to her, but quite frankly, Im sick of hearing about this woman and her efforts toward a liberal agenda.
Yep. Everyone should wait for the police to come rescue them, like Gabby did. And how well did THAT work out?
If she was honest, she would press for laws to open up mental illness records and to make it easier for nuts to be committed to an institution. THAT is a gun violence law I could support...
She will receive probably 80% of those proceeds for her valuable time.
Hunger organizations do this on the backs of starving women and children.
The rest of the money will be doled out to her high end supporters. As long as there are
no promises of investment return it's totally legal, just not morally. Pyramid scheme, or Ponzi?
I wonder who is pulling her strings lately....
Can’t believe she’s energetic enough to be initiating these things herself.
Seriously... just time in front of the camera. Don’t these people ever get tired of their own blah blah blah? I am not taking anything away from her being a victim... I cannot imagine the moments of terror. But seriously, guns do no horror without a criminal behind the trigger. What part of physics class did she sleep through. Inanimate objects are simply that. Bully pulpit alert.
During the Obamacare fiasco, she didn’t want to meet with ANY constituents. After a series of protests outside her vacant Tucson office forced her hand, she made it clear at the townhall meetings that there was only ONE constituent she cared about - Nancy Pelosi.
Giffords managed to get reelected after boasting of her endorsement by the VFW. The truth was the VFW PAC endorsed her, and then the VFW disbanded their PAC and repudiated the endorsement - but that didn’t stop Gabby from flooding the area with signs saying the VFW supported her.
She was a lying bitch turned into a political saint by being shot by a madman. She refused to resign her seat until she had enough time in to get a lifetime pension and healthcare, and she will now ride the political fame of being shot for the rest of her life.
Her husband sucks too...
Best post of the day.
> raise funds to counter influence
And now these shysters have their useful retard to carry the water. America is full of suckers to fund these misfits for life.
Agree with everything mentioned by posters. Sick of Gabby and her husband going around pandering. She chose the public square life so live with the consequence.
Agree with everything mentioned by posters. Sick of Gabby and her husband going around pandering. She chose the public square life so live with the consequence.
As I've said repeatedly, Democrats do not have any morals.
More shameless emotional exploitation and demagoguery by the radical left.
No, I didn't think so...
I agree about the energetic part and about someone pulling her strings. Liberals, socialists, and all who hate an armed citizenry are the ones pulling her strings.
i lost any and all respect for her now that she’s trying to cash in on her injury....she’s trying to do for gun control what al gore did for environmentalism.
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