Hypocritical Gun Ban Zealot Gabby Giffords, her AR-15 Rifle, and her Glock Pistol

The exploitationist gun ban zealot political faction in America has been parading Gabby Giffords across the country as their poster child for America’s violence problems. Recovering from a gun shot wound to her brain has sadly left Giffords with aphasia and other obvious cognitive disabilities, as well as physical ones. Egregiously though, the gun ban zealots have exploited the sympathy she generates as they have her parrot brief, canned, completely simpleminded, statements in support of every form of gun ban and gun restriction statute being proposed everywhere around the country. What the gun ban zealot political faction is doing with Giffords, and what Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly are shamelessly allowing to occur, defrauds the past actions of both Giffords and her husband.

Gabrielle Giffords Brandishing her AR-15

Prior to the tragedy that left Giffords permanently disabled from a cranial gun shot wound, Giffords often bragged publicly that she is the owner of a compact Glock pistol and considered herself a "good shot". Her Glock pistol of course uses the same standard capacity magazines of fifteen or more rounds of ammunition that she is now urging the federal government and state governments throughout the U.S. to ban. Her statements have also implied that she would like to see modern sports rifles banned in accordance with the draconian Senate Bill S. 150, written by the staff of and sponsored by the U.S. Senator from California, Dianne Feinstein. However, Giffords has also been the owner of an AR-15 rifle for years as well, the very type of rifle she wants banned. On Thursday March 15, 2013, a photograph of Gabby Giffords was leaked to various news media, of Giffords prior to being injured, of her brandishing her AR-15 rifle at a shooting range in her home state of Arizona. Her AR-15 rifle was even loaded with the type of thirty (30) round ammunition magazine she now wants banned. The AR-15 rifle that Giffords already owns, and her currently owned ammunition magazines, would be grandfathered by the proposed gun ban statutes she now supports though, creating a case of, she has hers, but she doesn't want anyone else to have theirs. 

Giffords shooting a Kalashnikov type rifle in 2010

The AR-15 type rifle is the most popular type of rifle purchased and owned by civilian U.S. citizens. Giffords owns one, but hypocritically doesn’t want the rest of America to be able to own one. Such hypocrisy is rampant among gun ban zealot politicians. Another example is the infamous Dianne Feinstein, who is evangelizing a renewed ban on all modern firearms, a ban that would make the vast majority of modern firearms currently owned by law abiding U.S. citizens illegal under federal law. Feinstein however, is well known to carry a concealed .38 caliber revolver. Feinstein’s crusade is an obviously disturbed, psychologically pathological, response to the fatal shooting she personally witnessed over thirty years ago. That shooting was committed with a revolver just like the one Feinstein herself uses for concealed carry. The shooting she witnessed was not committed with one of the modern sports rifles or modern design pistols that Feinstein adamantly, and unconstitutionally, wants banned throughout the United States.

Husband Mark Kelly recently buying a second AR-15

Meanwhile, and astonishingly, Gabby Giffords’ husband Mark Kelly was caught on camera buying his own AR-15 rifle in Arizona in March 2013. After the story and supporting photographs went rival, he and his public relations people tried to spin it, but nothing his public relations people have said has the least bit of credibility. Given the current run on firearms of all types, goodness only knows how Mark Kelly found a licensed retail firearms store anywhere in America right now with an AR-15 rifle in stock, but he managed to find one in Arizona. The rest of America has been in a panic, buying every firearm, ammunition magazine, and all the ammunition available, out of abject fear that the federal government may actually succeed in banning many types of firearms, ammunition magazines, and doing something like heavily taxing ammunition. It is no wonder there is such panicked firearm buying in America, where even the gun ban zealots themselves are stocking up on the very firearms that are trying to ban.