Former Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords: 'Too dangerous to wait' on gun control

[SecularMotion]

Source: Associated Press

BOSTON — On the eve of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, former Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords is challenging Washington leaders not to ignore gun violence.

The former Democratic congresswoman is featured in a new television ad set to air immediately before and after the president's speech. In the ad, Giffords faces the camera and says, "Congress is afraid of the gun lobby."

"Tell Washington it's too dangerous to wait," she says in a slightly slurred voice.

Giffords, 43, is still recovering from a brain injury suffered in 2011 when a mentally ill man shot her in the head as she met with constituents outside an Arizona shopping center. Six people were killed in the attack.

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[onehandle]

1. Pro-gun activists should be investigated for hate crimes.

They should be lumped in with the right-wing forces fighting to take our vote away.

[AtheistCrusader]

5. That would be super-convenient for you, wouldn't it?

You know, just silence people who disagree with you. Fun.

[DFW]

2. They're terrified of someone like Gabby

Someone who is still fighting her way back from the brink of death and trying to rewire her brain and body to cope with the effects of a bullet to the brain.

They should be terrified. She has more spirit and even now more brain left than the cumulative amount that her opposition is putting up.

[onehandle]

3. Cue gungeoneers to line up, declare victory in the present, and ignore the inevitable future. nt

[hack89]

4. As a gun owner, she is an effective bridge between both sides

to bad there are not more like her - then perhaps things could get done.

[AtheistCrusader]

6. I'd like to see some comprehensive proposals for improving background checks that would have

stopped Loughner from obtaining a firearm through legal channels.

He went through a NICS check, which didn't reveal his obvious issues.
So, let's hear some proposals.

How about a firearm owner ID that allows purchases, but ties into local LEO feedback? My CLP is checked against state patrol's database before it is even submitted to the FBI for review, because that will catch more recent crimes I might be accused of, than the FBI database would hold. Can we use something like that?

How to compile medically sensitive mental health data like that in a secure manner?
Do we include only adjudication of incompetence, or allegations? What's the bar? How do we make sure a future Loughner doesn't buy a gun of any type?

There were warning flags, but which ones do we look for and how?

[LanternWaste]

8. Where precisely in the story did you see an absolute denial of gun ownership from her?

"She can own a gun but everyone else can't?"
Where precisely in the story did you see an absolute denial of gun ownership from her?

Not so much elitist crap from but rather sub-literate crap from those who are...well, apparently sub-literate.