Three separate bills have been filed seeking to restrict the ability of government to regulate firearms in Florida, and a rash of recent shootings serve for some as further confirmation of their argument that more guns will ultimately keep us safe.
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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Pembroke Pines, traveled on with President Obama on Air Force One to Tucson to see her friend and colleague Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and attend “Together We Thrive” at the University of Arizona. She recounted the emotional moment when Giffords opened her eyes for the first time.
The Miami Herald is reporting that Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Pembroke Pines, one of the congresspeople most outspoken about toning down violent political rhetoric in the wake of the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., accompanied President Obama on a flight to Tucson to attend a memorial service for those killed and injured Saturday.
Rep. Allen West, R-Fort Lauderdale, gave an “impromptu press conference” before a speaking engagement Tuesday morning, mostly dealing with the Tucson shootings. He rejected calls for more civil rhetoric, and said that those making the calls were grandstanding, according to the Sun-Sentinel’s account.
Rep. Allen West, R-Fort Lauderdale, called in to the right-wing talk radio show of the woman he originally hired as his chief of staff, Joyce Kaufman, responding to criticism of Kaufman’s controversial statement “If ballots don’t work, bullets will” in light of the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz.
South Florida right-wing talk radio host Joyce Kaufman fired back at Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Pembroke Pines, on her program today, calling the congresswoman “duplicitous” for criticizing Kaufman’s infamous statement that “If ballots don’t work, bullets will.”
In an open letter published yesterday, the Broward-Palm Beach New Times‘ Bob Norman attacks right-wing radio host Joyce Kaufman for her incendiary rhetoric, connecting Kaufman statements like “If ballots don’t work, bullets will” to the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz.
During a Meet the Press discussion of whether violent political rhetoric has any relationship to Saturday’s shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Pembroke Pines, spoke out about the infamous words uttered by the original chief of staff of one of her tea party-supported colleagues: “If ballots don’t work, bullets will.”
Rep. Sandy Adams, R-Orlando, former Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Orlando, and Florida’s other congressional representatives weighed in today on the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz.
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