Just Say ‘I’m not going to be a Gabby Giffords’ and Watch the Reaction

Yesterday, South Carolina Congressman Ralph Norman was meeting with constituents in a diner in Rock Hill, SC.

To make a point that guns are dangerous only in the hands of criminals, a South Carolina congressman on Friday pulled out a loaded handgun during a meeting with constituents.

U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman, a Republican, reportedly placed the .38-caliber gun on a table during the “coffee with constituents” meeting at a Rock Hill restaurant.

“I’m not going to be a Gabby Giffords,” Norman said, referring to the former Arizona congresswoman who was shot outside a grocery store during a 2011 constituent gathering.

The gun was bad enough, but saying that you weren’t going to be gunned down while unarmed, like Gabby Giffords, was just more than a lot of folks could handle.

And, of course, Jeff Flake was ready to weigh in:

There were folks in the crowd from the South Carolina chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, and they were not amused.

I don’t know anything about Norman but what I need to know, that is, he’s a Republican and believes in gun rights. If Mister Gabby Giffords wants to wet himself, along with Jeff Flake, that’s his prerogative but a driving a truck that happens to have the ability to move in three dimensions and being married to a woman who got shot doesn’t give him the moral on intellectual ability to sit in judgment on anyone else. This same applies for the people who think being in the vicinity of a school shooting gives them the moral authority to speak on behalf of people who were actually shot at.

We are beyond the point of taking into consideration the feelings of people who are trying to obliterate the values and institutions we cherish.

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