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Ready4Change

(6,736 posts)
Wed Aug 10, 2016, 12:14 AM Aug 2016

Reminds me of when Palin targeted Gabrielle Giffords.

Same edge of deniability, same statements of liberal over reaction.

And, should some whack job act on the suggestion, there will be the same declaration that you can't predict what a crazy person will do, and that prior statements have nothing to do with it.

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Reminds me of when Palin targeted Gabrielle Giffords. (Original Post) Ready4Change Aug 2016 OP
They are fooling no one. C_U_L8R Aug 2016 #1
That's what they're trying to do- they're trying to Giffords Hillary. It damn well better not happen NBachers Aug 2016 #2
add this to the crosshairs mercuryblues Aug 2016 #3
Had to look it up... 63splitwindow Aug 2016 #4
And Sharron Angles' "Second Amendment Remedies" moondust Aug 2016 #5

mercuryblues

(14,532 posts)
3. add this to the crosshairs
Wed Aug 10, 2016, 12:28 AM
Aug 2016

Flashback: Giffords Opponent Had M16 Shooting Event, 'Help Remove Gabrielle Giffords From Office'. He also had the famous crosshairs graphic on his campaign website.



http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/flashback-giffords-opponent-had-m16-shooting-event-help-remove-gabrielle-giffords-from-office

Then the asswipe had the nerve to run for her seat when she resigned, after being shot. He lost the election to Ron Barber, another victim of the mass shooting.

 

63splitwindow

(2,657 posts)
4. Had to look it up...
Wed Aug 10, 2016, 12:40 AM
Aug 2016

"...
...
Gabrielle Giffords, The Arizona congresswoman shot today outside a Tucson Safeway, was featured on Sarah Palin's infamous 'crosshairs' map, which targeted legislators who voted for Obama's health care bill. Remember? The map that was criticized as an incitement to violence?
...
..."

more at: http://gawker.com/5728545/shot-congresswoman-was-in-sarah-palins-crosshairs

Palin is a real threat to America. I mistakenly thought she was just a ridiculous joke. Scum.

moondust

(19,988 posts)
5. And Sharron Angles' "Second Amendment Remedies"
Wed Aug 10, 2016, 12:45 AM
Aug 2016

Sounds like a suggestion of violence to me but I didn't hear the full context of the speech leading up to it.

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