Brady Campaign statement on Giffords shooting

[wtmusic]

"Too many public officials have been killed and injured in this country in my lifetime - nearly all of them by guns.

As a result, we at the Brady Campaign are deeply concerned about the heated political rhetoric that escalates debates and controversies, and sometimes makes it seem as if violence is an acceptable response to honest disagreements. Shortly after President Obama took office, the head of the NRA crowed that “the guys with the guns make the rules;” participants in Congressional forums and Presidential events started carrying guns in public; and then, just last year a candidate for U.S. Senate said the citizens unhappy with elections results should consider exercising their “Second Amendment remedies” and Sarah Palin used gun “target” metaphors encouraging voters to defeat Rep. Giffords and others.

We, as Americans, can and should do more to restore civility to our political discourse. And we can and should do more to address the easy access to high-powered guns that make it too easy for dangerous and irresponsible people to disrupt and destroy the lives of innocent Americans, and political leaders who are simply trying to serve their communities and our country.

Paul Helmke, President"

http://www.bradycampaign.org/

[KansasVoter]

1. The gun forum members hate this group!

[ProgressiveProfessor]

2. More Brady Bunch tripe headed by a Repuke

They will milk this tragedy for more $$$ but hopefully remain irrelevant

[wtmusic]

3. What exactly is tripe in the statement

or are you just kneejerking?

[Kolesar]

5. I would expect you to struggle with the idea of "restoring civility" ... eom

[jtrockville]

4. Thanks wtmusic. Seems reasonable to me.

More reasonable than, say, trying to provide SS security for all of Congress - which doesn't address how we'd provide security to protect the general public against shootings like we saw at VT.