Former Rep. Gabby Giffords saw her political career, as it was going, put to an end by a madman. No one thinks what happened to her was justified.
It’s not surprising that she recovered and started a gun control group. I don’t think anyone was overly shocked by that.
However, many of Giffords’ supporters have argued over and over again that people like her respect the Second Amendment and just want what they call “common sense” gun control.
The problem is Gabby didn’t get that memo.
As we wrap our interview in her office, I ask how she keeps coming back to a challenge so deeply ingrained in politics. She pauses for 12 pregnant seconds.
“No more guns,” she says.
Ambler, her aide and adviser, tries to clarify that she means no more gun violence, but Giffords is clear about what she’s saying. “No, no, no,” she says. “Lord, no.” She pauses another 32 seconds. “Guns, guns, guns. No more guns. Gone.”
An aide tried to say what she meant was something like Australia, but that’s not what Giffords said.
Further, based on quotes throughout the piece, her mind is sharp enough that if it were, she’d have said it. She didn’t. She never mentioned Australia. No, she said, “No more guns.”
In fact, she apparently said it twice.
What Giffords did was say the quiet part out loud.
We’ve long argued that gun control advocates’ endgame was the complete disarmament of the civilian population. They might not be advocating for that explicitly at the moment, but that’s where the incrementalism was going to inevitably lead.
We were called crazy, paranoid, and a few things not fit to print.
Yet here we are. One of the leading voices of the gun control debate – one held up as the perfect spokesperson due to her own personal experiences – says, “No more guns.”
That puts the Giffords organization in a bad spot. They either agree with “no more guns,” or they don’t. No one should accept the claim that the former congresswoman was talking about Australia when she clearly never mentioned it. They need to be pressed and pressed hard over this, and any talk of being like Australia should be questioned even harder.
They either need to defend Gabby’s comments or disavow them. It’s that simple.
But they won’t.
Further, it’s not like the media is interested in doing anything except covering for her, as the above-linked Time piece does. They merely accepted the aide’s explanation as if that was all that needed to be said. They were given an excuse, and they ran with it.
No one else should accept this, though, because either Giffords is cogent enough to speak on behalf of gun control, or she’s not. If she is, then her words should be taken at face value as anyone else’s would be.
If not, she probably doesn’t need to be making the rounds advocating for a policy that she’s not cogent enough to adequately define her position on before a member of the press.
Tom Knighton
Find the original article in its entirety at Bearing Arms.
She knows, as do all our foreign and domestic (Democrat Socialists/Communists/Marxists) enemies understand that we have sufficient arms to repel and invasion or overthrow attempt by them.
She was responsible for getting people killed because she didn’t have security at her event.
Please release your thoughts who was responsible for leak. Our own lives depend on the CORRUPTION!!
Madman? She was shot by a fellow Democrat. What if she had said, No more Democrats?
‘Zactly. We don’t need more gun control. We need more liberal control.
This from an apparently mildly-deranged , elected official who tempted fate by venturing forth into the interior to seek her supporters – dems – one of which shot her while his own mental bathtub boiled over . His Dad called the cops , worried because his own guns were missing . No one called Federal Security (FBI) in this immediate area ? Really ?? Was Everyone somehow transfixed by the presence of a Democratic Fairy Queen – from the immediate reality into LaLa Land where nothing Ever goes wrong ? Are any democrats anywhere – unaware that 99% of shooters anywhere – are Democrats , liberalistas , socilaists , and other—-social sacks ?
She is just one of the many left wingers that want to take all guns from the citizens of this country. The only way that could even come about is that another revolution take place, and they win. Of course during the war this country would be pretty much destroyed, and some groups would continue to fight, and there would never be a real peace take hold.
So how does she expect to enforce this? First of all, no more guns means that the Second Amendment is gone. In order to seize them she would probably also have to dump theFourth Amendment. The go for to door and collect them forcibly from 140 million people. That’s not going to happen. In that case, why not just trash the entire Constitution while they’re at it.
They’re workin’ on it.
Gabby, you have a problem. First, take care of the gangs and the mentally ill. There is only one reason to take all guns. Ask the Venezuelans. Or the Jews of 1930s Germany. If you want no guns move to New Zealand or Australia. You can’t have all the guns in this country without a war. Although. it may be one reason for 87,000 new “IRS” agents. Re-read the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence. Also, check out Ronald Dworkin and his thoughts on the social costs of freedoms which includes the first eight of the ten Bill of Rights.
Gabby Giffords Says The Quiet Part Out Loud
Interesting how the left wants so-called “common sense” gun laws. But the problems is the left is void of common sense. None whatsoever! All they really want is the repeal of the Second Amendment. Followed shortly by the first, and so on. And then on to socialism / communism. No thanks.
Gifford is just another bimbo too stupid to see that guns aren’t the problem. The first and biggest problem is lousy parenting which is complicated by the lousy public education system both of which produce psychotic losers. First, there are far too many stolen or illegal guns brought into the country that are used to kill. When I/we were growing up before we had teh hippie/liberal idiots running rampant this never happened so look in a mirror Gifford for the bigger problem.Remember, it was one of your own Demonrats that killed your own president in 1963. The last half decent Democrat and it’s escalated since with the said lousy parenting and public education systems of yours.
I’m a female American citizen. I live in a downtown area of a major city. I legally went through all the steps, learned to shoot, practice, and received my concealed handgun license. Why should I trust the police (who take hours to show up) to defend me? It’s not my fault criminals have guns. Gabby has guards. I don’t!
Yup, and unfortunately Gaby left her guards behind and told them to stay away. Perfet no guns allowed cenario that almost got her killed and then got others killed. Where would she stand if her guards were there, and no one got hurt other than the bad guy?