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Eleanor Clift: Newtown Families and Gabby Giffords Will Be More Powerful Than the NRA
Newsbusters ^ | April 13, 2013 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 04/18/2013 7:27:29 AM PDT by upchuck

"The Newtown families and Gabby Giffords are in the gun debate to stay, and over time their voices will be more powerful than the NRA."

So said Newsweek's Eleanor Clift during the predictions segment on PBS's McLaughlin Group Friday...

"The culture of guns is beginning to go through a transformation in this country," she added.

Maybe she should say that with a straight face to the people of Chicago so riddled with the kind of gun violence pending legislation will have absolutely no impact on whatsoever.

But nobody seems to care about that - certainly not media members such as Clift.

Tis far more important to restrict gun ownership of law-abiding citizens.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: banglist; giffords; guncontrol; secondamendment
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To: upchuck

The Newtown Families and Gabby Giffords will eventually decide that they have to get on with their lives and they are sick of being used as political props for charlatans.


41 posted on 04/18/2013 7:58:12 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: upchuck

Eleanor does not know anyone who wants the whitey riff raff owning guns. Eleanor and her pals don’t need guns as they have door to door car services, armed body guards and police details to keep them plenty safe. Besides if they don’t report on diversity race violence and crime, it does not exist.

There is nothing worse to Eleanor than a whitey surviving an attack by attacking back. Armed and independent natives is way to uppity and dangerous for socialist global “ruler” wannabes.


42 posted on 04/18/2013 7:58:25 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: upchuck
"The culture of guns is beginning to go through a transformation in this country," she added.

Yes. It's shifting from the old regime of hunters, plinkers, and target shooters to people who practice with their semi-autos and do concealed carry. It's increasingly about second-amendment rights and personal defense.

That ain't workin' in your favor, Ellie Mae...

43 posted on 04/18/2013 7:58:30 AM PDT by Oberon (Big Brutha Be Watchin'.)
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To: upchuck

Never trust anyone named Eleanor!


44 posted on 04/18/2013 7:58:53 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: upchuck

She is one of the rudest individuals I have ever seen attempt to engage a panel debate on anything. It’s ok for her to speak uninterupted on the McLaughlin Group program for years, but when it was Pat Buchanan, Tony Blakely, or the conservative on the panel at the time’s turn to chime in, she could not help to start interupting them trying to raise her voice shouting them down. It is disgusting.


45 posted on 04/18/2013 8:00:01 AM PDT by MachIV
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To: BitWielder1

LOL...that isn’t the point...it will make the STATISTS like her safer from her fellow Americans who will be disarmed, while she and her ilk will still have their weapons.


46 posted on 04/18/2013 8:02:21 AM PDT by rlmorel ("We'll drink to good health for them that have it coming." Boss Spearman in Open Range)
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To: allmendream

You have that right. We can count in literally millions if not billions of pages the bad laws that have been birthed by the victimization insanity and for what? Homicide rates still go up and down with they only thing that really seems to impact them being law enforcement and keeping violent offenders in prison. What worked 100 years still works today and all the gun control laws and bureaucracy that has accumulated since has just been noise in the machine meant to not control criminals as much as to produce power structures so that politicians can control citizens who have did nothing wrong.


47 posted on 04/18/2013 8:02:29 AM PDT by Maelstorm (This country wasn't founded with the battle cry "Give me liberty or give me a govt check!")
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To: upchuck

Why aren’t they complaining that Ob@$t@rd used those families as props


48 posted on 04/18/2013 8:03:25 AM PDT by verga (A nation divided by Zero!)
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To: From The Deer Stand
and the Gabby who was shooting and watching her husband shoot a Glock at a range?

i thought he was shooting in a backyard... the in-laws' backyard? for some reason, i don't think he was even at a shooting range...

49 posted on 04/18/2013 8:04:08 AM PDT by latina4dubya
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To: upchuck

Dream on Eleanor!!!


50 posted on 04/18/2013 8:04:58 AM PDT by ontap
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To: upchuck

tomkat:  E.Clift Will Continue Her Descent Into Complete Irrelevance and Total Madness


sooner = better

51 posted on 04/18/2013 8:07:18 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: upchuck

52 posted on 04/18/2013 8:08:04 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: upchuck

Someone should immediately confront such dummies in public, by saying that they should advocate a “trusted citizen program” in gun control cities rife with violence.

That is, a program whereby the police “shall issue” ballistics tested handguns, ammo, and concealed carry licenses to “willing adult persons of good character” in high crime neighborhoods, on conditions that the guns and ammunition are verified each month by the police, that all incidents in which the guns are brandished or discharged are noted as well, and that when not in use, the guns and ammunition are stored properly. Also that any gun or ammo lost are reported to the police immediately.

Because I bet a “totally unexpected” thing would happen. The level of violent crime would drop like a rock.


53 posted on 04/18/2013 8:08:37 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Best WoT news at rantburg.com)
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To: upchuck
Newtown Families and Gabby Giffords Will Be More Powerful Than the NRA

Because the genuine tragedy and inevitable emotional response of 100 should count more than the civil rights of 5 million.....[cue weepy music]

54 posted on 04/18/2013 8:09:04 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: latina4dubya
Maybe Kelly and Giffords could use taking an NRA safety course. I'm no expert, but it seems to me that using a pile of rocks as a backstop is a pretty dumb idea.


55 posted on 04/18/2013 8:09:59 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: Huebolt
The only thing I want to read about elinwhore cleft is her announced retirement or commitment to a mental inst.

Please to not using "eleanor" and "cleft" in same sentence! Now where did I put that brain bleach????

56 posted on 04/18/2013 8:12:26 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: goldi

But, I thought that king hussein, the royal monarch for the confused states of American, said 90% of the “people” supported further restrictions on our rights. What the heck happened there? On the other hand, if the dems that assisted in voting it down because their re-elections are at risk, that just tells me that they have no principles and need to be voted out anyway. As to the fig newtowns, some of them may tire of the spotlight but others will revel in the light of king hussein. As for mz. giffords, her hubby mark kelley-giffords, will try to remain relevant but will fail. The new improved brady’s I suppose.


57 posted on 04/18/2013 8:18:12 AM PDT by rktman (BACKGROUND CHECKS? YOU FIRST MR. PRESIDENT!(not that we'd get the truth!))
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To: ontap

Substitute “NRA” with “Constitution”


58 posted on 04/18/2013 8:18:26 AM PDT by Phillyred
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To: upchuck
"The culture of guns is beginning to go through a transformation in this country," she added.

yeah, it's growing.

59 posted on 04/18/2013 8:19:16 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (People are idiots.)
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To: upchuck

Eleanor is a ditz. I cannot think of a more descriptive word.


60 posted on 04/18/2013 8:21:57 AM PDT by Daveinyork (."Trusting government with power and money is like trusting teenaged boys with whiskey and car keys,)
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