Dallas Green recalls granddaughter, laments gun laws at Phillies camp (Tucson victim)

[jpak]

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/dailypitch/post/2011/02/dallas-green-phillies-christina-taylor-green-death-giffords-shooting/1

Since the day he debuted as a Philadelphia Phillies right-hander in 1960, Dallas Green has always maintained a tough guy image.

Standing 6-5 and more than 200 pounds, Green became Phillies manager, then general manager of the Chicago Cubs. He's weathered some tough times, but nothing could prepare him for what he would experience Jan. 8 when his 9-year-old granddaughter Christina Taylor Green was one of 19 people shot and six people killed at a Tucson neighborhood meeting of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords' constituents.

"That little girl woke an awful lot of people up. We just miss the hell out of her," said Green, speaking publicly for the first time Wednesday at the Phillies spring training headquarters. "I'm supposed to be a tough sucker, but I'm not very tough when it comes to this."

The Phillies went out of their way to make sure Green could keep his sunglasses on. Knowing there might be tears, they moved the press gathering outdoors. But Green, 76, wearing a mock turtleneck, green windbreaker and tasseled loafers maintained his composure for the better part of 20 minutes.

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30 round mags are instruments of mass murder

yup

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[aquart]

1. Yup.

[DonP]

2. But he doesn't want to give up his "High Powered Sniper Rifles"

I'm sorry for his loss, but he only wants them to crack down on the kind of guns he doesn't own and has no problem with his hunting rifles, which the Brady people refer to as Sniper style rifles.