Reply #101: They ARE the same brand--GLOCK. Not the same MODEL.

[MADem]

They are "similar." You're the one shy of a clue--or ten, and the last cheerleader standing. Not even the GOP leaders in Pima are touting this abject stupidity.

It's getting the bipartisan thumbs-down, from everyone but YOU and a few other obtuse diehards. Even the guy who thought up this hair-brained raffle is having second thoughts.


James Kelley, the GOP’s Legislative District 29 chairman, said he advised his colleagues not to raffle the gun. He acknowledged the party has held gun raffles before without problems, "but post-Jan. 8 it's bad messaging and it's insensitive."

Kelley continued: “It doesn’t mean the Republican party doesn’t have an incredible record of supporting the Second Amendment, but at this point it’s ill-advised and I won’t stand with them on this.”


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"Let's make this perfectly clear: I advised against this raffle from day one," said Kelley, who also is on the Pima County GOP's executive committee.

"I said, 'This is insensitive and stupid and a no-brainer. Do not advertise this.' The chairman and our executive director did the wrong thing. They said, 'Well, we've done it before.' Yes, but not since January 8, and we shouldn't be doing it now."

Despite the criticism, which Shaw said included "a lot of nasty calls," the Pima County Republican Party doesn't intend to cancel the raffle. The office also received some supportive calls and requests for tickets, he said.

The Glock in the current raffle actually was raffled off last year, Shaw said, but the winner never claimed it..."We didn't go out to buy a Glock to make people mad - not at all," Shaw said. "There are some people who are sincerely offended or maybe even hurt, and I feel bad about that. It was not my intent, or anybody's intent, to hurt anyone at all."


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I think it shows a stunning lack of judgement and decency at a time like this, when the community is still grieving and healing over the events of January 8th,” said Jeff Rogers, chairman of the Pima County Democratic Party. “Raffles are fine - how about an iPad, or a bag of golf clubs… if you want to honor the 2nd amendment, why not raffle off a shotgun or a hunting rifle?”

Opposition to the Glock raffle appeared to have bipartisan support.

“There’s a woman who has a bullet in the brain and who everybody is wishing a full recovery,” Brian Miller, the immediate past chair of the Pima County GOP told Talking Points Memo. “I don’t think that raffling off a firearm right now is probably the right way to go.”


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