{"id":4368,"date":"2011-08-02T13:38:14","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T17:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=4368"},"modified":"2011-08-02T13:38:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T17:38:14","slug":"still-trying-to-exploit-giffords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=4368","title":{"rendered":"Still trying to exploit Giffords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2011\/08\/02\/no-decision-on-2012-run-reports-say-as-giffords-returns-to-washington-to-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\">Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords returned to work yesterday<\/a> roughly eight months after her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2011-01-09\/giffords-remains-in-critical-condition-after-shooting.html\" target=\"_blank\">attempted assassination<\/a>. \u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/bradybuzz\" target=\"_blank\">Bradys<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/CSGV\" target=\"_blank\">CSGV<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Protesteasyguns\" target=\"_blank\">PEG<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/NYAGV1\" target=\"_blank\">NYAGV<\/a>, etc. are all trying to exploit her for political gain with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.protesteasyguns.com\" target=\"_blank\">Protest Easy Guns<\/a> leading the pack with these <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Protesteasyguns\" target=\"_blank\">tweets<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"\/images\/PEG-bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"479\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been involved with gun rights for nearly 20 years and I still sometimes wonder how the antis can come up with stuff this. \u00a0It is such blatant crap that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">nobody<\/span> could possibly take it seriously.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"\/images\/bsmeter.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"135\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Where were all these antigun groups before the attempt on her life? \u00a0Not one of them showed even the slightest bit of interest in Giffords or her politics before the assassination attempt and nobody in the media is calling them on this.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D4368&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=4368\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=4368\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=4368\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords returned to work yesterday roughly eight months after her attempted assassination. \u00a0The Bradys, CSGV, PEG, NYAGV, etc. are all trying to exploit her for political gain with Protest Easy Guns leading the pack with these tweets: I&#8217;ve been involved with gun rights for nearly 20 years and I still sometimes wonder how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D4368&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=4368\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=4368\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=4368\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moonbattery","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4368"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4380,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368\/revisions\/4380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}