Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has made a remarkable recovery after suffering a gunshot to the head during the Tucson massacre two years ago. Today, on the second anniversary of the shooting, she’s ready for her next chapter as the face of the gun control movement.
Bells will ring in Arizona today to mark 2 years since Rep Gabrielle Giffords was shot. She is announcing support for new gun control…
— RobSpicker (@RobSpicker) January 8, 2013
Monday night, Giffords’ husband Mark Kelly teased the launch of their “broad new effort,” an organization called Americans for Responsible Solutions.
Gabby and I are making an announcement tomorrow about our next project and the impact we hope to have in America.
— Captain Mark Kelly (@CaptMarkKelly) January 7, 2013
Evidently “responsible solutions” don’t necessarily involve respecting Second Amendment rights.
Former #Arizona Rep. @GabbyGiffords launches "Americans for Responsible Solutions." #azpol #AZ #guns #guncontrol http://t.co/iTcUrgOh
— Samantha Lowe (@sebare) January 8, 2013
The couple’s op-ed introducing the initiative appears in USA Today and ABC will air their interview with Diane Sawyer today.
Our op-ed is online! http://t.co/95AS679W #ResponsibleSolutions
— Captain Mark Kelly (@CaptMarkKelly) January 8, 2013
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Tomorrow night watch Gabby and me discuss with @DianeSawyer what we're doing in the next phase of our lives together http://t.co/LeP0gih6
— Captain Mark Kelly (@CaptMarkKelly) January 8, 2013
The op-ed blasts Congress for doing “something quite extraordinary — nothing at all.” So, of course, the answer is to do something. Giffords and Kelly blame an “ideological fringe” that has “used big money and influence to cow Congress into submission.”
https://twitter.com/wrappedinflag/status/288633288371879936
Ban Second Amendment supporters!
Gabby Giffords and her husband say they want to raise money "to balance the influence of the gun lobby."
— Katina Rankin (@katinarankin) January 8, 2013
Giffords and Kelly complain that the fringe gun control lobby makes Americans “more vulnerable to gun violence” by being way too into those pesky “individual liberties.” You know, the ones safeguarded by the Constitution. Oh, and that much-hyped national conversation about gun violence? You gun nuts are doin’ it wrong.
Rather than working to find the balance between our rights and the regulation of a dangerous product, these groups have cast simple protections for our communities as existential threats to individual liberties. Rather than conducting a dialogue, they threaten those who divert from their orthodoxy with political extinction.
@allanbourdius @gabbygiffords Yes exactly! Or how about the fact that she has ARMED guards keeping her safe! Ok for her, NOT for us!
— Lisa Dente (@Faithful_YFE) January 8, 2013
Armed guards for the politerati? Totally different! Surely you don’t expect your betters to adhere to the same rules as the hoi polloi?
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