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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumGabby Giffords, Mark Kelly stump for Hillary and gun control in N.J.
Newark Star-Ledger:Gabby Giffords, the former congresswoman who has advocated gun reform since her near fatal shooting five years ago, and her husband Mark Kelly returned to New Jersey Wednesday to support Hillary Clinton's presidential bid.
They argued for reforms they said make common sense and would help curb gun violence: Preventing people on the terrorist watch list from purchasing a firearm, making it harder for those with mental illness to get their hands on guns and putting restrictions on the gun market to prevent a flood of dangerous weapons from flooding the streets of cities like Camden.
"We're in the grips of a gun crisis in the United States," said Kelly, a former astronaut and New Jersey native, who has advocated gun reforms alongside his wife since she was shot in the head in 2011 at a constituent relations event in Arizona.
The couple pushed for electing someone to the Oval Office with a plan, and the resolve, to stand up to the nation's gun lobby for what they argued are common sense reforms.
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Gabby Giffords, Mark Kelly stump for Hillary and gun control in N.J. (Original Post)
brooklynite
May 2016
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"The only way to stop a bad terrorist with a gun is a good terrorist with a gun"?
brooklynite
May 2016
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TeddyR
(2,493 posts)1. What sort of
"Restrictions on the gun market"? And no thanks on the terrorist list proposal - I don't think we should take away constitutionally protected rights without due process.
brooklynite
(94,727 posts)2. "The only way to stop a bad terrorist with a gun is a good terrorist with a gun"?
TeddyR
(2,493 posts)3. If they are truly "terrorists"
Then they aren't going to be buying guns legally.
panader0
(25,816 posts)4. Gabby was my representative.
I voted for her. I like her and what happened to her was a tragedy.
But Gabby was always a blue dog and voted with the repubs more than once.
It does not surprise me at all that she is an HRC supporter.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)5. What's going in NJ? Why is there going to be a flood of weapons?
Is someone talking about bans again?