Arizona remembers deadly day with bells, tears

[Playinghardball]

TUCSON, Ariz. — Rep. Gabrielle Giffords led a crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance, her words ringing out across a cold Tucson night in a rare public appearance Sunday evening at a candlelight vigil one year after surviving a deadly shooting that killed six.

The Democratic congresswoman stepped onstage to cheers from the crowd. Ron Barber, a staffer who was wounded in a deadly shooting one year ago, invited her to lead the audience in the pledge.

The crowd chanted: "Gabby, Gabby."

She limped to the podium, and husband Mark Kelly helped lift her left hand over her heart. After a year in which she has struggled to speak, Giffords recited the pledge with the audience, head held high and a smile on her face as she punched each word.

More at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45917707/ns/us_news-life/

[Xipe Totec]

1. Go, Gabby, Go! nt

[thelordofhell]

2. And A Gun Show

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/01/06/399800/tucson-gun-show-held-on-anniversary-of-giffords-shooting/?mobile=nc

[AtheistCrusader]

3. And the connection?

Since Loughner bought his guns from a sporting goods store... ?

[ellisonz]

5. Insensitivity.

Like Charlton Heston going to Denver after Columbine...

[AtheistCrusader]

6. I'm missing what is insensitive about it.

Was the sporting goods store open today? I bet it was. Was that insensitive?

The gun show didn't have a damn thing to do with this tragedy. Nothing at all.

[lunatica]

7. Just like photos of naked children have nothing to do with pedophiles right?

How convenient to see the world so clearly pigeonholed for your preferences.

[AtheistCrusader]

8. I might say the same for you.

If the gun show had been in ANY WAY involved, I might see your point. The show scheule was likely set more than a year in advance. I'm hard pressed to think of a reason why they would change it.

[lunatica]

9. How about just plain thoughtfulness for the people who were murdered that day?

You "fail to see..." sound more like "you refuse to see..." what is obvious to many. Close shop for the one hour. Put a sign up saying you'll be open in an hour or whatever. Ya know the bottom dollar doesn't have to always be the end all.

Sometimes being decent and thoughtful is the right thing to do and no one will take away your god given right to own as many guns as you see fit. You gun owners are the most paranoid people I've ever talked to. You think everyone is out to take your guns away, when no such thing is being planned.

[AtheistCrusader]

10. Presupposes some sort of link between the gun show, and the tragedy in Tuscon.

There isn't any. None. No link at all.

Nobody but you brought up 'taking away guns' or paranoia or anything.

[PavePusher]

11. So, car dealerships should close on the anniversary of each car death.

It's the natural extension of your "logic".

[PavePusher]

12. Are you talking about the NRA convention, that had been scheduled/planned/booked....

for over a year before the incident?

The one where they immediately cancelled all recreational activities, and held only the meetings required by their charter/legal/tax code incorporation?

That "Denver"?

[ellisonz]

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