Flashback: gun dropped at Gabrielle Giffords event, at a grocery store

[Enrique]

this was during the summer of 2009, when the Tea Party was at its craziest, all over the country...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6269075

Town hall disruptions around the country have led to some outbreaks of violence. Unions participating in town halls have received death threats. At an event held by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) last week, the threat of violence led her aides to call the police after one attendee dropped a gun.

"Yelling and screaming is counterproductive," she told the Sierra Vista Herald at a Congress on Your Corner event last week. There, one visitor dropped a gun at the meet n' greet held in a Douglas Safeway, her staff says.

That has aides, who called police to the event, concerned for her safety.

"We have never felt the need before to notify law enforcement when we hold these events," said spokesman C.J. Karamargin.

One of the callers to the Service Employees International Union said, "I suggest you tell your people to calm down, act like American citizens, and stop trying to repress people's First Amendment rights... That, or you all are gonna come up against the Second Amendment.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/10/gabrielle-giff...

They need to have the police at all the events!

[aquart]

1. What is going on in that insane state?

[Dennis Donovan]

2. K&R - My God...

:grr:

[lapfog_1]

3. I was at that event...

There were a number (probably dozen or more) Tea Party assholes there armed to the teeth (open carry, guns strapped to their legs) out of maybe 60 tea party protesters (bussed in). The gun that fell on the floor was in some idiots pants pocket. Gabrielle didn't have a typical "town hall" meeting, she had one on ones with her constituents. People had to line up to meet her, her staff provided a long line of folding chairs that allowed one to sit while waiting their turn, but every so often (as the line moved) you had to stand up and slide to the next chair. That's when the gun landed on the floor. There was one police officer there to keep the protesters (shouting tea bagging slogans) near the back of the line.

The hate is very strong with those people.

[Ptah]

4. kick

:kick: