Semi-vegetable is not very nice. She seems to be able to talk and communicate

But it’s crazy that they have guns but don’t want others to have guns. Today they want my rifles. A couple decades ago they didn’t want rifles, they only wanted to get your pistols. Now, they want to keep pistols and take rifles. Does anyone really think they would stop there?

Skyler on January 9, 2013 at 10:31 am

Gabby Giffords is being used. I have to believe that it’s her ambitious, self-promoting husband pushing her. It would be best for all of us if she would just live a private life instead of milking her shooting for all it’s worth. Pathetic.

lexi on January 9, 2013 at 10:34 am

Spot on Debbie! This is grandstanding at its lowest. All these elitist cream puffs don’t get the bottom line that PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE! It doesn’t get any simpler than that. I’ve never read nor heard of anyone getting killed by an ill-spoken word or a nasty glare.

I’ve owned guns since I was young; used them for hunting, sport, etc and went on to a long career in law enforcement. Oh yeah, trained, carried, and taught the use of many types of firearms including the infamous “Assault Rifle”. I intend on keeping mine; I’ll stand a better chance of retaining those than my income after O-Bummer’s tax hike!

IceNoMore on January 9, 2013 at 10:58 am

Totally agree DS. I feel sorry for GG. With friends like Dippity-Do Debbie Blabbermouth-Schultz and her nasty husband, the poor woman is being shamelessly exploited. It’s heartless and cruel.

I have off the charts ‘spidey’ sense on that crap husband of hers. He’s disgusting and the media will cover up all the chicks he has on the side because his poor wife is suffering from an unfortunate tragedy orchestrated by an insane freak.

That husband is no good and wouldn’t know good character if it came to him in a green space-suit with alien antenna. I’ll be watching that d. bag. I don’t trust him…

Skunky on January 9, 2013 at 11:04 am

Well, I guess someone has to replace Sarah Brady. Just as we were plagued by her shrill diatribes for many years, we will now be plagued by the Giffords’ ranting and raving. In addition to Kelly’s political ambitions, I’m afraid that there may be financial motivations as well. Although the two of them both get generous pensions, I guess financial sacrifice and frugality, like gun control are for others, and not for them.

Giffords is certainly being used, although considering her politics before the shooting, she would probably have approved of all of this.

Little Al on January 9, 2013 at 11:11 am

Debbie, I agree with you on two points. Yes, Ms. Giffords was exploited: “The act of employing to the greatest possible advantage”. I also agree that no law will prevent all gun violence. I did not see where you read into the interview that they want to take away everyone’s guns. If the pair were wearing “no guns” symbols on t-shirts, like the picture above in your post; I might read past what they are saying and draw the same conclusion.

If some NRA member from the tea party put crosshairs over someone’s picture, what would you read into that?

Visteo on January 9, 2013 at 11:14 am

Debbie – I believe you are blaming the wrong people here.

Just like I don’t blame Cindy Sheehan for what she does – I blame those who follow her and give her publicity.

Something terrible happened to Giffords, and I don’t find it surprising that overcome by emotion they may stop rational thinking and try to come up with the “easiest” way to prevent it from happening again. The evidence is overwhelming that they are wrong but given what happened I don’t blame them for irrational thinking.

However I do blame anyone who follows them and gives them publicity since they do not have the excuse of being overcome by emotion for their irrational thinking.

I_AM_ME on January 9, 2013 at 11:40 am

The same chatterers and politicos who blather about accepting “science” regarding man made global warming ignore real science showing that gun control increases crime.

skzion on January 9, 2013 at 11:42 am

You know why Gifford is not “mentally all there”?

Because bullets passed through her brain.

steveba on January 9, 2013 at 12:10 pm

Sorry folks, Giffords was already a rabid gun grabbing bitch before she was wounded. Since she’s not in congress the spotlight isn’t on her, so she goes to Newtown to “commiserate” with the “20 litte martyrs”, and start a gun grabbing organization. What an attention whore!!!

FrenchKiss on January 9, 2013 at 12:11 pm

Gabby is famous and a powerful voice simply for taking one to the head.

There’s a verse about that in the Christian New Testament. Revelation 13:3 – One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was astonished and followed the beast.

Beast; Greek – therion – metaph. brutal, bestial, savage, ferocious.

Paul uses a similar word only twice in the NT – in English it’s written as chalepos. This is a translation of the Greek term chalepos [calepoV], meaning “violent.” It is coupled with a modifier, “exceeding fierce.” This term suggests more than violence, reaching even to the level of uncontrolled, raging and brutal insanity.Look for this in the ‘gun control debate’.

And here, we come face-to-face with the world, driven by an inner darkness, out of control and furiously rejecting the message of Almighty G-D.

Gabby has sided with the Beast that is the animating spirit of the world today. The beast has many heads. Represented most vividly by whatever it is that the Democrats have become.

She took one to the head and though as dead revived and I predict her voice will be used by the animating spirit known as the Beast as a pied piper of sorts and the people will follow her.

jack on January 9, 2013 at 12:15 pm

Once again Debbie you are 100% correct. And I could not agree with you more.

Gregory Rupcic on January 9, 2013 at 12:40 pm

Ever since she was shot, the Dems have been using Giffords as a prop in their sick “weekend at Bernie’s” routine. DNC lawyers will forever be issuing press releases and raising money using Giffords’ name.

salt1907 on January 9, 2013 at 12:57 pm

Eighty-five percent my a$$. Are we sure it isn’t the husband who has the brain damage?

I think as a gesture of good will, Obama should IMMEDIATELY disarm the Secret Service. Honesty, after all, begins at home. Why should he get any more security than he’s willing to let a child in a school receive? BTW, I read somewhere that there are something like 11 armed guards at the school the Obama daughters attend. Maybe THEY should disarm, too. I’d like to start a national campaign to have each school hang a huge banner on its exterior that says “No guns here!”

Sorry to all my fans on this site that I’ve been so scarce of late. There’s this contest I enter every day. It’s very time-consuming to enter the first time, but after that it remembers you. When I delete Schlussel’s banhammer cookie, it deletes that as well. Wish me luck! You’ll be hearing from me again soon!

$tatusm0nkey on January 9, 2013 at 1:16 pm

poor gabby
didn’t deserve to be shot
doesn’t deserve to be
brain damaged

she also doesn’t deserve
to be used as a stupid dupe
by the gun grabbing left

using the murder of school children
the brain damage of a congresswoman
and other tragedies to further the
political agenda of the extreme left

is not just shameful
it’s reprehensible

i can smell dave axelrod
barry o’bama
diane feinstein
andy ( the heir apparent ) cuomo

prestigio on January 9, 2013 at 2:20 pm

“Remember the Good Old Days . . . When Astronauts Did Parades, Not Gun Grabbing Using Their Semi-Veggie Wives?”

Well, gee, can you name any other astronauts whose wives were shot and almost killed as part of a mass murder?

dee on January 9, 2013 at 2:23 pm

Deb …having worked at NASA, I suggest you might want to ruminate a bit on the phenomenon of the Clinton-DNC-appointed Astronaut meltdown; as in:

Lisa Nowak USN:
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/nowak.html

Mark Kelly USN:
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/kellyme.html
(don’t forget his twin Scott (USN): http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/kellysj.html)

P.S. ANOTHER USN meltdown is ex-USN Intel Officer Bob Woodward who ‘magically overnight’ became a WAPO ‘investigative journalist’….

Nick Fury on January 9, 2013 at 2:25 pm

P.S. A year ago, Mark Kelly’s Clinton Administration appointment date to the NASA Astro-apparatchik core was on his official bio….. seems President Jarrett and VP Axelrod have ordered a full memory hole treatment for augmentation of soon-to-be Senator Kelly’s destiny…..

Nick Fury on January 9, 2013 at 2:44 pm

I feel for the people of Newton, CT.

But, can someone tell me why Planned Parenthood can carry out more than 300,000 abortions per year with little or no protest while at the same time the death of 26 children by a lunatic results in demands that tens of millions of law abiding citizens be stripped of their right to self-defense?

Is the life of a child in the womb less precious than that of one in the classroom?

If Captain Kelly really wants to save the lives of innocent people he can ask the President and Mayor Bloomberg to shut down the abortion mills.

Maybe this issue isn’t really about saving lives.

Pete on January 9, 2013 at 2:51 pm

Correct as usual on what you’re exactly saying in this piece DS, and I to think that Ms. Giffords is being used for a anti-2nd Amendment propaganda agenda in order to violate and trample on our 2nd amendment rights, and if these two clowns were any smarter, they would’ve figured out that the 2nd amendment is protected by the 1st amendment!

And also if both Mr. Kelly and Ms. Giffords studied any history of gun-control in countries over the last century, they would’ve known that governments did all sorts of genocide mass-murdering on their citizens while they were dis-armed and unable to protect themselves. Plus, these two phonies are bigtime hypocrites, they have security guards who protects their asses 24/7, 365 with yes, a “gun”, if they really stand for gun-control, how about they tell their security guards to give up their firearms? It’s time for these left wing nutjobs to put their money where their freaking mouths are!

“A nation is defined by its borders, language & culture!”

Sean R. on January 9, 2013 at 3:17 pm

I have no problem with Mr. Kelly he was a shuttle pilot and worked hard. I disagree with him parading his wife out there, but I will not demean his accomplishments.

His twin brother will be more famous since he will be spending 1 full year in space in 2015.Those are the pioneers needed to test the human body long term in space.

Glen Benjamin on January 9, 2013 at 3:24 pm

Gifford has an excuse for being brain damaged. What’s Sawyer’s?

JeffT on January 9, 2013 at 3:25 pm

All liberals are retarded. Whether they got shot in the head or not.

RT on January 9, 2013 at 4:05 pm

I feel for the people of Newton.

But why is it that Planned Parenthood can perform 300,000 abortions per year without raising too much criticism whereas the actions of one lunatic who killed 26 children results in demands that tens of millions of law abiding citizens be stripped of their right to defend themselves?

The answer is that this issue is not about saving lives. If that were the case then Captain Kelly would ask his new best friends President Obama and Mayor Bloomberg to do something about those abortion mills.

The issue is about the Left’s lust for power. They are uncomfortable with people taking responsibility for their own protection (or anything else for that matter). The more you do for yourself the less you need the almighty State or liberals.

As for Captain Kelly, maybe he is sincere or maybe he just likes the limelight. Where do you go after you’ve been in outer space?

Pete on January 9, 2013 at 5:27 pm

I hope they start 300 more anti-gun organizations.
The more groups they have the more the anti-gun money gets spread thin and thus they have less impact and clout.
It is pretty pathetic that someone would be so narcissistic as to start another anti-gun group.
With as many groups as there are out there surely even the stupidest of people would realize that joining ranks with one of the existing groups would be more effective than starting a new group.

But when has gun-control ever been about doing what’s smart or what’s best.
It’s all about self-promotion, and yes, making that almighty dollar.
This group will be just like all the others, a vehicle to promote speakers, sell books and get people to cry and open their pocketbooks.
All the while the people at the top rank in the big bucks.
Basically using the blood of innocents as fertilizer to grow their bank accounts.

steve g on January 9, 2013 at 6:31 pm

Giffords and Obama are not worthy to shine the shoes of the greatest Presidents of all time: Washingtonn, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and Ronald Reagan.

Which reminds me, we need more Beretta, Ruger, and Remington manufacturers in each state along with ammo factories in every county.

Confederate South on January 9, 2013 at 8:17 pm

Giffords isn’t a semi-vegetable, she IS still intelligent. Any of you ever hear of ‘apraxia’? Its when your thought process is normal, but you have trouble verbalizing. In adults, it can be aquired by stroke, or maybe…a gunshot wound!!! She definitely knows what she wants to say and has every right to say it. 1st Amendment!

Lee on January 9, 2013 at 8:19 pm

As Oscar Wilde would ask, Visteo, “Was that clever?”

(Note that our favorite simian never got the allusion, despite his pose as Mr. Intellectual.)

skzion on January 9, 2013 at 10:38 pm

Confederate South

You left out the greatest of the all . Lincoln

steveba on January 9, 2013 at 11:32 pm

Both Presidents Reagan and Bush Sr. were FOR responsible gun control. Reagan even before he was shot. Bush rescinded his membership in the NRA because he thought LaPierre’s views were too extreme.

Lee on January 10, 2013 at 10:23 am

devout Arab Muslim entered a black cab in London , He curtly asked
the cabbie to turn off the radio because as decreed by his religious
teaching, he must not listen to music because in the time of the
prophet there was no music, especially Western music which is the
music of the infidel. The cab driver politely switched off the radio,
stopped the cab and opened the door. The Arab Muslim asked him, “What
are you doing? ”

The cabbie answered, “In the time of the prophet there were no taxis,
so fuck off and wait for a camel

martin on January 10, 2013 at 11:12 am

I don’t agree with Giffords politics, but i think it is insensitive to call her a semi vegetable. She is still a human being and deserves a lot of credit for how she has been able to rehabilitate.

Ed Sherota, Jr. on January 10, 2013 at 12:14 pm

It’s disgusting to see the spectacle she’s become at the hands of that idiot. It’s been written that she was repeatedly threatened by her shooter and took no precautions. If that’s the case, the families that were also victimized by the madman should have her and her husband busy in court suing for damages caused by her lack of action. She wasn’t the only victim, though she’s being paraded around like a prized poodle.

samurai on January 10, 2013 at 5:47 pm

What is wrong with you? Your cruel name-calling of a disabled woman makes you sound like some middle-school kid with a personality disorder. Gross. I’m sick and tired of everyone being so callous and cruel these days, online and off. People are losing their ability to empathize and our society is suffering for it. Why don’t you try to put yourself in Giffords’ shoes and think about how you would feel if you were in her position and on top of every other horror, you had to deal with being called dehumanizing names? Can you imagine what she must have to go through each day? When I see someone who is suffering, my impulse is to want to alleviate some of the person’s pain, not to make snarky comments. Why is this instinct so unusual these days? It’s infuriating. As long as people continue to push compassion aside in favor of mindless meanness and careless cruelty, our culture will continue to rot, guns or no guns.

mb on January 11, 2013 at 4:55 am

@mb–

Yes, by all means. Those on the Right must remain civil at all costs, as we watch our country go down the toilet. Here’s the problem: Civility doesn’t work anymore. Heck, that’s why the Left stopped acting that way decades ago! Ever hear of Saul Alinsky?

How “civil” is it to…

Be a baby killer
Have sex with a young woman in the oval office
Sacrifice a US ambassador
etc etc

Red Ryder on January 11, 2013 at 1:54 pm