The assassination attempt of US Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-Az), the death of US District Judge John Roll, the death of a nine (9) year Christina Taylor Green,the three other dead and twelve wounded - the blood is on the hands of those Republican Party, Tea Party and Sarah Palin whose - anti Obama, birther, anti health care, anti gun control, anti immigrant and anti big government rhetoric, laid the emotional ground work for assassin, Jared Loughner, to develop and nurse his hatered and to form a rational for the shootings.
Dozens and perhaps hundreds of US citizens have been give the green light to hate - to feel that picking up a gun and killing those people who disagree with them is 'doing the right thing' because of the leadership and direction of the Republican Party, Tea Party and its chief bad mouth, unintelligent and wrong Sarah Palin, aided by the Glen Beck's, Shawn Hannity's, and others who lost the ability for rational discussion and logic.
Sarah Palin put a gun sight - a cross hair, on Giffords and other Democrats she wanted to defeat - an encouragement for the gun lovers to take up guns against their governmental leaders ( a terrorist act???) and Giffords opponent Jesse Kelly, held a fundraiser, at a SHOOTING RANGE, with M-16 assault weapons - asking HELP to remove Giffords from office (a terrorist act???).
The Republican Party, who controls the US House of Representatives, and a majority of State Governorships and the National Rifle Association (NRA), should support, as a priority, in the name of Christian Taylor Green and Rep Gabrielle Giffords, an ANTI ASSAULT WEAPONS BILL to ban the sale, manufacture, and distribution of all assault weapons, and place stronger restrictions on purchase of semi automatic weapons and require 40 hours of gun use training, (assault weapons and handguns are being bought and smuggled to Mexico - causing over 25,000 deaths) and a ban on all extended magazines for semi automatic weapons, which together with assault weapons are killing American citizens, unnecessarily.
Republicans, Tea Party memebers and above all Sarah Palin, will deny any responsibility for the deaths and injuries of this act - by a crazed gun man - but how much death could have been avoided if he didnt have the gun, and we had intelligent leaders and intelligent honest discourse on our policy differences.
But, the question is - Is Sarah Palin and Jesse Kelly - terrorist??? - did they not implicitly encourage the assasination of Gabrielle Giffords, a member of the US Congress. Did their imagery convey encouragement to those to take up guns against a member of Congress...???? I say - Yes...
Ps..An Arizona public official has now said "it is easier to get a gun (in AZ)than a drivers license" that is wrong and ludicrous !!
Arizona should NOW be the leading state to REPEAL all open carry pistol / rifle (except hunting) laws - and make stonger gun educational requirements for concealed weapons laws - leading the nation to a saner gun control laws.
The NRA has already mounted a campaign to condemn those who want stronger more effective gun laws - blaming those 'who attempt to exploit this situation (Giffords shooting)' - after John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Marting Luther King, Jim Brady etc, there were calls for stronger more effective gun laws - the Giffords shooting is no different - The National Rifle Association is a dangerous anti American organization that prevents and stymies effective and sane gun laws. Now is the time to stand up against the NRA. We must save US residents and Mexican lives.
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Guns don't kill people.
People kill people.
You can make all the gun laws you want and it won't change any of the above.
My gun sits in my closet, day after day, for 40 years now, and it hasn't killed anybody yet.
I could tell it to kill every 5 minutes and it won't do a thing, unless I pick it up and shoot someone.
Then did the gun kill that person, or did I?
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