Gabrielle Giffords: ‘Shame on’ Senate

Thursday, 18 April 2013 | by Pat's Picks

“Shame on them” is the message of Gabrielle Giffords’ powerful opinion piece in the New York Times this morning, a day after Congress defeated several measures that would lead to a gun control bill. She asks Americans to single out the senators who voted with fear of the NRA on their minds, while reminded us of the real fear the victims of Newton and Aurora and countless othere gun-related tragedies felt. “Mark my words,” Giffords writes,” if we cannot make our communities safer with the Congress we have now, we will use every means available to make sure we have a different Congress, one that puts communities’ interests ahead of the gun lobby’s. To do nothing while others are in danger is not the American way.”

SOURCE: New York Times