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Gabrielle Gifford's Resignation Another Cost Of Love Of Guns

by: Rep. Jim Splaine

Sun Jan 22, 2012 at 15:09:49 PM EST


So unfortunate, and what a loss.  Arizona Congressperson Gabrielle Giffords is resigning from Congress, to focus on her recovery from the shooting last January.  

It's another cost of the guns-anywhere-and-anytime-by-anyone gun culture that is rampant in the nation, from the New Hampshire State House to the Wild West.  

We need a serious national dialogue on this.  But it might take so many future losses before we get to that.  

In the meantime, let's hope for the best for Gabrielle Giffords and her husand and family.  Such courage.

Rep. Jim Splaine :: Gabrielle Gifford's Resignation Another Cost Of Love Of Guns
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As some may know, two innocent citizens from NH, (4.00 / 2)
along with a sheriff's deputy, were murdered in Gabby's home state a couple of weeks ago, apparently by an unhinged ex-serviceman with a high-powered AR-15 type assault rifle. As the suspect was killed in a firefight with police, we will never know what set this human "weapon of mass destruction" off, or why it was that he needed to own such a weapon.

There is a single purpose for a weapon like that: it is designed to kill humans, period.

One of those humans was a friend and fellow musician, and I will never be able to get my mind around the level of insanity that killed my neighbors and left Gabby in her current situation.

November 2012
Hope for a return to sanity.



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