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Gabby Giffords: Hold Hearings on 'Preventing Gun Violence Against Women'
CNSNews ^ | 4/14/2014 | Susan Jones

Posted on 04/15/2014 9:15:34 AM PDT by rktman

Former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.) wants members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to hold a hearing on "preventing gun violence against women," the first step to passing (gun control) legislation, she says.

"[M]any of those who perpetrate violence against women are still allowed easy access to firearms," Giffords wrote this month in an open letter to the Judiciary Committee.

Giffords writes that women are more likely than men to be killed or stalked by an intimate partner; and she says having a gun in a household with a history of domestic violence makes it much more likely that a women will be killed there.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: 2a; arizona; banglist; gabbygiffords; giffords; guncontrol; waronwomenmeme
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To: NorthMountain
Here's what folks should be looking at: The little creep who almost killed Reagan is out on parole (visit) with his mom........IN DC!!!

Why is he on the streets at all. That's insane.

21 posted on 04/15/2014 9:35:45 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: driftless2

Don’t leave home without it.

Last thanksgiving, one of the teenage girls at the dinner was being teased about her height.

I said:

I’m only 5:3, but I play a Full-Sized Bass, Ride a Full-Sized Harley, and shoot a Full-Sized GUN!


22 posted on 04/15/2014 9:37:15 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Jane Long

“Who keeps trotting her out like this?”

Her husband allows it, the A$$hat Astronut.


23 posted on 04/15/2014 9:40:32 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: DAC21

What a disgusting leech he is.


24 posted on 04/15/2014 9:42:39 AM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: DManA

> There really should be a law against shooting a woman.

I once put three M16 rounds into the chest of a young woman who was shooting at me (Quang Tri Province, Viet Nam, 1970). After she was no longer an immediate threat, I took her AK47 out of her hand, brought the bleeding under control and got her on a helicopter to a hospital, where they patched her up, kept her for a few days and the shipped her to a women’s POW camp. There are circumstances where a women needs to be shot.
A woman is just as capable of violence as a man.


25 posted on 04/15/2014 9:43:57 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Freedom isn't free; nor is it easy. END ALL TOTALITARIAN ACTIVITY NOW.)
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To: rktman
The voice behind this ventriloquist's dummy is her creepy husband. No low is too low for the left. If it advances the agenda, using and abusing the mentally impaired is a virtue. Vile.
26 posted on 04/15/2014 9:46:45 AM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: Sacajaweau
The little creep who almost killed Reagan should be rotting away in a nasty little cell all by himself.
27 posted on 04/15/2014 9:50:28 AM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: rktman

Here is CA, if your “Spouse” decides to file a Restraining Order against you, you have to turn in your Firearms.

The is no Due Process, period. It appears that anyone can say anything about you, true or not, and you will be forced to capitulate your God Given Right to Self Defense to the State. Good luck getting your Guns back if the Restraining Order is cancelled or overturned.

Of course, if you were so inclined, you could Stab your “Spouse” with an Assault Knife or run her over with an Assault Chevy.


28 posted on 04/15/2014 9:50:42 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Nobody owes you a living, so shut up and get back to work...)
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To: rktman
She acts like she was the only one shot. I wonder how much interaction she has had with the families of those who died that day.

You want to prevent gun violence again women Gabby? Then push for them to own guns.

29 posted on 04/15/2014 9:58:43 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: BuffaloJack

Good shooting Bro!!! I was in Northern I Corp (C-2 A-4 Dong Ha Khe Sahn, Rockpile, Cam Lo Vandergrift) in that same time frame!!! Who knows, you mighta kept her from plugging me!!! Thanks a bunch.


30 posted on 04/15/2014 10:08:48 AM PDT by DMZFrank
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To: rktman

From the “Grasping at Straws File”


31 posted on 04/15/2014 10:22:39 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: rktman

What about Taser violence against women? She’s got no problem with that I presume.


32 posted on 04/15/2014 10:27:52 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: rktman

To prevent violence against women, get them into a CCW class.


33 posted on 04/15/2014 10:34:41 AM PDT by logic101.net (How many more children must die on the altar of gun control?)
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To: BuffaloJack

Thanks for your service, BuffaloJack!

I have to say that’s not the most stirring endorsement for 5.56mm that I’ve ever heard. Still, you did your job, and I suppose it did its, in a fashion.


34 posted on 04/15/2014 10:40:43 AM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Unfortunately, she completely missed the influence of guns on climate change.

I like what you did there. Work in how evil American guns are harming gay Mexicans, and you can have a future in government.

35 posted on 04/15/2014 10:44:21 AM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: Rinnwald

> I have to say that’s not the most stirring endorsement for 5.56mm that I’ve ever heard. Still, you did your job, and I suppose it did its, in a fashion.

I do not endorse the M16 rifle. Earlier in the same fire fight, I had to take the damn thing apart and remove a bent cartridge that was jammed in the breech. You have no idea how fast you can repair a rifle unless you have to.


36 posted on 04/15/2014 10:45:08 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Freedom isn't free; nor is it easy. END ALL TOTALITARIAN ACTIVITY NOW.)
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To: BuffaloJack

I had a close family friend who was a Marine sharpshooter in Vietnam. He hated the M16 and was not bashful in telling you why. He managed to hold on to his M14 during multiple tours of duty.


37 posted on 04/15/2014 11:09:40 AM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: rktman

“...because gun violence against men is perfectly acceptable!”


38 posted on 04/15/2014 11:11:01 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: rktman

This woman was my representative. I spent many an afternoon protesting on her office’s street corner, where she was never in residence. She ducked all the meetings we had set up with her. I heard her complain that people who talk to her about politics on the planes home (Texas with her husband) was wearisome.

She seems more active politically now.

One of the people who disarmed the gunman was a woman, who was on the ground. She knew how to drop the magazine out of his weapon (press the button) and was brave and practiced to do this in the middle of a squabble. One of the men had a gun on him, but did not want to use it in close quarters. He strong-armed the killer instead.

Idiot Giffords, used pictures of herself at the shooting range, but wants to deny other women and their husbands guns and target practice.

Good riddance. Your husband looks like bald Lauffner and his political ambitions to ride on your coat tails is blatantly obvious and repulsive.


39 posted on 04/15/2014 11:15:40 AM PDT by lulu16 (May the Good Lord take a liking to you!)
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To: mass55th

One of the people who died was a judge, Judge Roberts. He was a Republican, a devout Catholic, who went to church every day. He used his body to cover another.

You never hear about this hero. I met his family at a Mass for him to receive posthumously the St Thomas medal. At the Mass, it was never mentioned how he had died and how, as Jesus had preached, did what the greatest thing one can do, is die for another.

A man covered his wife, but she died.

God Bless you forever Judge Roberts, you are who we should always remember on that tragic day in Tucson.


40 posted on 04/15/2014 11:20:24 AM PDT by lulu16 (May the Good Lord take a liking to you!)
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