Showing posts with label Gabrielle Gifford. Show all posts
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A Well Regulated Militia

Monday, January 10, 2011

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, who lost her husband to gun violence before coming to Congress, and who has since become one of the leading pro-gun control politicians in the country, plans to introduce legislation in response to the shooting in Tuscon, Arizona that claimed the life of six and left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in a medically induced coma.
“My staff is working on looking at the different legislation fixes that we might be able to do and we might be able to introduce as early as tomorrow,” McCarthy told POLITICO in a Sunday afternoon phone interview.

Gun control activists cried it was time to reform weapons laws in the United States, almost immediately after a gunman killed six and injured 14 more, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, in Arizona on Saturday.

Many said that people with a history of mental instability, like the alleged shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, should not be able to buy a gun — and no one should be able to buy stockpiles of ammunition used by the 22-year-old assailant.

McCarthy said she plans to confer with House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to see “if we can work something through” in the coming week.
I believe we need to preserve the right to have a well regulated militia and I fully support the right of all Americans to own a firearm. However, think we need to make it very difficult for most Americans to purchase a firearm.

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Pot Calling the Kettle Black

Sunday, January 9, 2011
We are already failing to learn the potential lesson of the tragedy in Arizona. While the media is reporting on what is known about Loughner and what may be attributed to him the right is blaming the left for violent rhetoric.


Neither one is right here however the last thing I would ever accuse the left of is violent rhetoric. If any violent rhetoric can be assigned to any group it is the Tea Party candidates and Sarah Palin. 

I don't mean to actually accuse the Tea Party candidates and Sarah Palin of wanting people dead. But, there is no doubt that they used the rhetoric of Tea Party members to reach out their base.


I think what we are seeing with Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and other far-right members of society is a cult of personality. Where what they say maybe construed as instructions to others.

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Jared Lee Loughner an Atheist?

Saturday, January 8, 2011
Jared Lee Loughner
Commenter's (and a few posts) on several of the many sites reporting on the Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shooting are claiming that Jared Lee Loughner is an atheist. They are saying that Loughner's My Space and You Tube postings show that he claimed he was an atheist. 


Unfortunately, I can not confirm the My Space and You Tube postings because I can either not find them or they are not loading (too many viewers). 

However, I can certainly find many references to Jared being an atheist:
I do not think it matters weather he was an atheist or not. What matters was his mental state, which appears to me to be not so good. However, the religious right is going to have a field day with this whether or not Loughner was an atheist.


There mere suggestion that he was an atheist will be played over and over in the Christian media and most certainly on Fox.

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