Ex-US Rep. Gabby Giffords attends NY gun show

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Ex-US Rep. Gabby Giffords attends NY gun show
By MICHAEL HILL, Associated Press | October 13, 2013 | Updated: October 13, 2013 8:44pm

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — A smiling Gabrielle Giffords toured rows of tables loaded with rifles and handguns Sunday in her first visit to a gun show since surviving a 2011 shooting, and pleaded afterward for people to come together to stop gun violence.

The former Arizona congresswoman visited the Saratoga Springs Arms Fair with her astronaut husband, Mark Kelly and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to highlight a voluntary agreement that closely monitors gun show sales in New York.

The trio mixed with a gun show crowd that was mostly welcoming — with a few hostile undertones — before calling for people to build on the cooperative effort.

"We must never stop fighting," Giffords said at a post-tour news conference, her fist in the air. "Fight! Fight! Fight! Be bold! Be courageous!"

Giffords, a face of the national gun control effort, slowly walked hand-in-hand with Kelly through the large room where Winchester rifles, muzzle-loaders, antique knives and other weapons were on display and "Don't Tread on Me" flags hung from poles.


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[NYC_SKP]

1. We need more like her in the discussion between different factions among progressives on this matter

The fighting and treatment of others is just so very sad and unproductive.

K/R

[Skittles]

2. she has more courage than all the gun humpers put together

[gopiscrap]

7. Agreed

[cosmicone]

10. My dalmatian has more courage

than all the gundamentalists put together. The bar is very low.

GG has as much courage as the marines in Afghanistan or some other high-level comparative you may want to use.

[Old and In the Way]

3. She's gut more guts than any of these morons who are making $ selling weapons

that is helping to destroy this country. 24,000+ gun deaths per year, every year.

[gopiscrap]

8. Absolutely!!!

[Cha]

9. Yes, she's so very Courageous! I wouldn't

even want to look at any guns.

[tofuandbeer]

4. Amazing!

[DRoseDARs]

5. Boggles the mind that anyone would have the nerve to heckle her. n/t

[Loudly]

6. Good cause, whoever brought this to her.

Private covenants can dovetail with public regulation just fine.

[onehandle]

11. How embarrassing for gun nuts. She survives an attack from their little fetish, now this.

I would be surprised if there wasn't a bounty out for her.