Gabby Giffords supports the kinds of background checks that her attacker passed. Last week Breitbart News had the audacity to point that out and the liberal media went crazy with faux rage. The NRA retweeted the Breitbart story and the long knives came out in force. The bottom line is that just because youve been shot in the face, you cant get away with being a hypocrite.
www.armedlutheran.us/wp-c...astronaut_00-300x225.png" alt="gabbyandtheastronaut_00" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-10982" height="225" width="300">Being a victim doesnt make you a saint. Youre not untouchable. Youre not free to say and do what you like simply because someone thinks its insensitive to criticize you. Sure, we in the gun-right community are willing to cut you and your family some slack initially as you grieve and come to grips with your loss. We understand its human nature to lash out.
But once you put yourself in the spotlight and make yourself the face of a political organization (or a tool for one), the gloves come off. You dont get a pass when it comes to the truth. You dont get to make public pronouncements calling for restrictions on the rights of the people who had nothing to do with victimizing you. At least not without having your ideas and policy proscriptions scrutinized and criticized.
Gabby Giffords got shot and now wants to push for policies which would have done nothing to prevent her own injury. The fact that the media doesnt pick up on this is telling. And Giffords is not alone in this. Richard Martinez, parents of the victims of the Newtown massacre, Trayvon Martins parents, and others have become tools for the gun-ban industry as well.
While we are saddened by their losses and we should pray continually for them, we cannot sit idly by and say nothing when they use their status as victims to attack our rights. Their grief doesnt trump my rights. Their grief doesnt trump truth and logic.
Their grief does not give them license to be hypocrites and liars.
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