In a post made on the right-wing site National Review Online, conservative blogger Kevin D. Williamson wrote the following regarding former Democratic Arizona Representative Gabby Giffords, who was shot in the head about two years ago and is a major proponent for gun control legislation:
"While Ms. Giffords certainly has my sympathy for the violence she suffered, it should be noted that being shot in the head by a lunatic does not give one any special grace to pronounce upon public-policy questions, nor does it give one moral license to call people 'cowards' for holding public-policy views at variance with one's own. Her childish display in the New York Times is an embarrassment."
This makes sense. Gabby Giffords referred to the Senate as a bunch of cowards due to their failing to pass a background check expansion bill on gun purchases not long ago. The bill failed by the final tally of 54-46. While 54% of the Senators supported the bill, 90% of the American people support such a measure. For 46 Senators to vote against 90% of the people in this country in order to please the NRA and anger President Obama I would say is a definite act of cowardice.
On the other end of things, for Mr. Williamson to tell a person who was shot in the head that her awful experience "does not give" her "any special grace to pronounce upon public-policy questions, nor does it give" her "moral license to call people 'cowards' for holding public-policy views at variance with" her "own. Her childish display in the New York Times is an embarrassment," his behavior can't even be described as childish. That would be too complimentary for such vile and callous words. No, Kevin D. Williamson's words, attitude, and behavior are well below that of childishness. They're inhuman.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/04/18/national-review-online-calls-giffords-childish/193690
"While Ms. Giffords certainly has my sympathy for the violence she suffered, it should be noted that being shot in the head by a lunatic does not give one any special grace to pronounce upon public-policy questions, nor does it give one moral license to call people 'cowards' for holding public-policy views at variance with one's own. Her childish display in the New York Times is an embarrassment."
This makes sense. Gabby Giffords referred to the Senate as a bunch of cowards due to their failing to pass a background check expansion bill on gun purchases not long ago. The bill failed by the final tally of 54-46. While 54% of the Senators supported the bill, 90% of the American people support such a measure. For 46 Senators to vote against 90% of the people in this country in order to please the NRA and anger President Obama I would say is a definite act of cowardice.
On the other end of things, for Mr. Williamson to tell a person who was shot in the head that her awful experience "does not give" her "any special grace to pronounce upon public-policy questions, nor does it give" her "moral license to call people 'cowards' for holding public-policy views at variance with" her "own. Her childish display in the New York Times is an embarrassment," his behavior can't even be described as childish. That would be too complimentary for such vile and callous words. No, Kevin D. Williamson's words, attitude, and behavior are well below that of childishness. They're inhuman.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/04/18/national-review-online-calls-giffords-childish/193690
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