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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nThe Associated Press<\/a> makes Gabby Giffords a very sympathetic figure in their piece about her struggle – a woman shot in the head by a mad man stands up to the giant National Rifle Association and their single-minded Bubba constituency as she tries to make guns an issue in this election. <\/p>\n As Giffords visited nine states in the past two weeks, the National Rifle Association was working in at least 30, with advertising and get-out-the-vote manpower, to strengthen its position in Washington and state capitals. She will be widely outspent this year by the NRA and others who support the rights of gun owners.<\/p>\n Two days after Giffords’ appearance in Seattle, a 15-year-old high school student shot and killed two people and killed himself in an attack north of the city that seriously wounded three others. The shooting has barely made a ripple in the final days of the campaign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Let’s make something very clear here. Nothing being proposed by any legislator anywhere in the United States would have prevented Gabrielle Giffords’ tragic wounding. Nothing is being proposed that would have prevented that 15-year-old from killing those people in Washington State. It’s already against written laws for a 15-year-old to have a gun. It’s already illegal for anyone to have a gun in school.<\/p>\n The article continues that Giffords campaigns against Joni Ernst in Iowa by spending her massive donations from her organization for anti-Ernst propaganda;<\/p>\n “Joni Ernst won’t vote to close the loophole that lets some dangerous people still get guns,” Story County Sheriff Paul Fitzgerald says in the ad set to run through Election Day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n What loophole, Sheriff? The one that is used by less than one percent of criminals who commit gun crimes? And there it is – after the incessant yelling and screaming following the tragic Newtown shootings, we all calmed down and looked at the actual facts, you know, after the emotion dissipated. That’s why Colorado, New York, Connecticut and Maryland rammed their idiot laws through their legislatures, before everyone came to their senses. Came to their senses and realized that government can’t stop these incidents from happening – well, not as long as guns remain the hands of the bumpkins.<\/p>\n The Giffords and the Bloombergs talk about “sensible gun laws” and ridding our communities of “illegal guns”, but we already have sensible gun laws and, in their eyes, all guns are illegal because sensible guns laws aren’t making us safer – and the solution to every problem is legislation, you know, when you’re a hammer…er…lawyer. If their legislation isn’t eradicating gun violence, then we simply need more legislation. All legislation, no matter how well-meaning, makes someone less free, leaves fewer choices for someone.<\/p>\n The NRA isn’t the big evil lobby that the Giffords, the Bloombergs and the Associated Press makes them out to be. They represent 5 million Americans who legally and responsibly own firearms for various reasons. <\/p>\n The culture is sick. Colorado takes guns away from law-abiding citizens and makes pot legal, so irresponsible behavior get a pass. Gun owners have more of a reason to want to protect themselves and their families because the government is becoming more permissive of irresponsible behavior. Just read through some of the comments in our more active “feel good stories”<\/a> where folks condemn us because we cheer when a legal gun owner walks away from a bad situation and the criminals don’t. The culture is sick. The Giffords, the Bloombergs, all feed off of that sickness in order to make themselves relevant in an irrelevant discussion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"