Wait… is this a joke?!! The Republican Party in Pima County, AZ is raffling off a gun almost identical to the one used to shoot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords that almost left her dead and killed six others.
(TMZ)–The online newsletter (see below) went out last Friday and features on page 3 a chance to win “a Glock 23 .40 handgun for just 10 bucks.” If your name is drawn, you don’t just win the gun, you get “three 12-round magazines, adjustable grips, and a case.”
A Glock 19 handgun was the gun allegedly used by Jared Loughner in an attack on January 8, 2011 that injured 13 (including Rep. Giffords) and killed six.
Michael McNulty, Giffords’ campaign manager, told the Arizona Republic he was “struggling for the words to describe my reaction” to the raffle.
The interim chairman of the Pima County GOP told the paper he was surprised at the reaction, saying Rep. Giffords owned a Glock herself and was an outspoken supporter of the Second Amendment. He explained, “That Glock is no more responsible for those deaths and the congresswoman’s injuries than a Number 2 pencil is responsible for cheating on a test.”
Translation — guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Crazy.
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