These are the first seven paragraphs of a story published April 9, 2013 in The Hill, a news journal that focuses on Capitol Hill politics.
April 9, 2013.
These are 20 links to other stories about his new campaign. All of these stories were published on the same day as the New York Times story
These journals published the February 12, 2019 Associated Press story that is linked above.
Starting at 1 minute, 14 seconds of the PBS video, Mark says these words;
These are the first five paragraphs of a January 8, 2019 Associated Press story that was published on the website of the ABC-TV affiliate in Toledo, Ohio.
"Democrats promised swift action on gun control after the party regained the House majority following eight years of Republican rule."
This is the second paragraph of the April 9, 2013 story in The Hill, titled "Giffords and husband still enjoy recreational gun use", that is quoted and linked at the top of this page.
If Gabrielle Gifford's husband can buy and use a firearm and ammo for it, and if he tells the rest of the country that we have no right to buy and use a firearm and ammo for it, then he's either a dictator or a hypocrite.
Either way, the National Rifle Association is right and he's wrong.
The person who posted this February 6, 2014 tweet was a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle.
This February 7, 2014 article in the Oregon Catalyst summarizes the obvious discrepancy in Mark Kelly's political philosophy. These are the first four paragraphs. All of the links in these paragraphs were in their article.
An article, published in the March/April 2016 issue of Sonoma Magazine, and titled Congressman Mike Thompson: Taming Gun Violence, misses the mark. These are the first six paragraphs.
The reason why so many advocates of gun control find it hard to pass their favorite legislation is precisely because many of them aren't willing to let the public share their own love for guns. The photo below was at the top of the article in Sonoma Magazine.
The purses shown below allow a woman who has a permit to carry a concealed firearm, These are not the only styles that are available.
If you want other people to throw away their guns, set a good example by throwing yours away.
That is especially true for Mark Kelly, who used his own Glock handgun to shoot some clay flowerpots while a CNN reporter watched.
Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) sometimes watches her husband shoot guns recreationally.Note: This article has been rewritten since it was first published and since I copied and pasted the text onto this blog page. The text of this story has been changed without any notification to the readers, but the original article is available on this web page, which includes a link to this CNN story, which was published
CNN released a taped interview with Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, where Kelly is shown shooting a Glock 9 millimeter handgun at pots and bottles while Giffords watches on a patio at her mother's house in Arizona.
The Glock 9 millimeter is the same gun that was used in the shooting massacre in Tucson, Arizona in early 2011 where Giffords suffered a gunshot wound to the head.
Kelly notes that the Glock he fires recreationally holds 17 rounds while the one used in Tucson held 33 rounds.
Kelly and Giffords have become some of the most prominent proponents of strengthening gun laws. They run the group Americans for Responsible Solutions which advocates policies meant to reduce gun violence.
Americans for Responsible Solutions recently released a video of Kelly buying a Sig Sauer .45 in Tucson, Arizona. The video argued that it's currently too easy to buy a gun.
President Obama has urged Congress to pass new gun laws. On Monday Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced that he would block a package of gun-control measures Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) hopes to bring to the Senate.
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February 16, 2019 update
There's a lot of material in this update. Please take the time to read it thoroughly.Mark Kelly is now a candidate for the U.S. Senate.
These are the first four paragraphs of a February 12, 2019 New York Times story. Both of the links in these paragraphs were in their story.Mark Kelly, the former astronaut and gun-control activist who is married to Gabrielle Giffords, announced on Tuesday that he would run for Senate in Arizona, challenging appointed Senator Martha McSally and intensifying the Democratic threat to Republicans’ narrow control of the chamber.
Mr. Kelly’s entry sets up a possible general election between two combat veterans in a swiftly changing state, and may elevate Arizona further as a 2020 battleground. Both parties already view Arizona as a swing state in the presidential race and in 2018 Democrats won a Senate race there for the first time in decades.
Ms. McSally, an Air Force veteran, was narrowly defeated in a statewide race last year by Senator Kyrsten Sinema. Ms. McSally joined the Senate anyway a few months later, appointed to fill the vacancy left by John McCain’s death after a placeholder appointee, Jon Kyl, resigned.
Mr. Kelly, 54, unveiled his campaign in an online video highlighting his experience as an astronaut and Navy pilot. Ms. Giffords, a former member of Congress who was shot and nearly killed by a deranged gunman in 2011, appeared beside him in the message.
These are 20 links to other stories about his new campaign. All of these stories were published on the same day as the New York Times story
These journals published the February 12, 2019 Associated Press story that is linked above.
| Tuscon.com | Las Vegas Review-Journal | ABC News |
| Boston Globe | New York Daily News | KPRC Houston |
| WGN Chicago | The Times of Israel | The Japan Times |
Mark's main political issue is gun control
Even though this April 9, 2013 story includes a video of a CNN reporter, visiting Mark Kelly's home with his permission, and firing a 9mm Glock handgun at some clay flowerpots, U.S. Senate Candidate Mark Kelly says that people should not own firearms.| This video was uploaded to YouTube by the PBS Newshour on
Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and retired NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, co-founders of gun control advocacy organization Americans for Responsible Solutions, respond to Las Vegas shootings.
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Starting at 1 minute, 14 seconds of the PBS video, Mark says these words;
"Every year, roughly 33,000 people die from guns. Over 100,000 more are shot. This is the worst-case scenario. It's haunted our dreams, that we would wake up to the news of a massacre like this. Weapons of war in the hands of a determined killer with a tactical advantage This was an ambush if there ever was one."
These are the first five paragraphs of a January 8, 2019 Associated Press story that was published on the website of the ABC-TV affiliate in Toledo, Ohio.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Days after reclaiming the House majority, Democrats are introducing gun control legislation timed for the anniversary of the shooting of former Democratic Rep. Gabby Giffords.This is the last quoted sentence.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats introduced a bill to expand background checks for sales and transfers of firearms on Tuesday, the eighth anniversary of the day Giffords was shot in the head at a constituent meeting in Arizona.
Giffords, who co-founded a gun safety group with her husband, Mark Kelly, said in a statement Friday she was thrilled that her former House colleagues were responding to a gun-violence epidemic that killed nearly 40,000 people in 2017.
The bill expanding background checks "marks a critical first step toward strengthening America's gun laws and making our country a safer place to live, work, study, worship and play," Giffords said. "I stand ready to do everything in my power to get this legislation across the finish line."
Democrats promised swift action on gun control after the party regained the House majority following eight years of Republican rule.
"Democrats promised swift action on gun control after the party regained the House majority following eight years of Republican rule."
Democrats promise 'swift action on gun control' but ...
... but many of the Democrats are hypocrites.This is the second paragraph of the April 9, 2013 story in The Hill, titled "Giffords and husband still enjoy recreational gun use", that is quoted and linked at the top of this page.
CNN released a taped interview with Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, where Kelly is shown shooting a Glock 9 millimeter handgun at pots and bottles while Giffords watches on a patio at her mother's house in Arizona.
| The CNN story that was linked in the April 9, 2013 story in The Hill included this video, which runs just under three minutes. Starting at 35 seconds, you will see him shooting at clay flowerpots and plastic water bottles with a 9mm Glock handgun that has a 17-round clip. He originally bought it as a gift for her. He says so in the video. |
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| This five-second video, uploaded in August 2013, shows him shooting a shotgun at objects made of clay at a shooting range in Napa, California. If I find other videos, I will add them onto this page. |
If Gabrielle Gifford's husband can buy and use a firearm and ammo for it, and if he tells the rest of the country that we have no right to buy and use a firearm and ammo for it, then he's either a dictator or a hypocrite.
Either way, the National Rifle Association is right and he's wrong.
The person who posted this February 6, 2014 tweet was a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle.
RT @PortlandPolice: Astronaut Mark Kelly (@ShuttleCDRKelly) stopped by our Central Precinct Range today. http://t.co/zySJurD55A— Evan Sernoffsky 🥃 (@EvanSernoffsky) February 6, 2014
This February 7, 2014 article in the Oregon Catalyst summarizes the obvious discrepancy in Mark Kelly's political philosophy. These are the first four paragraphs. All of the links in these paragraphs were in their article.
Mark Kelly, the husband of former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, went shooting yesterday after testifying in favor of additional gun control at the Oregon Legislature. Kelly, a former Navy captain and former astronaut, was in Oregon to testify at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in support of Sen. Floyd Prozanski’s “universal background check” bill, SB 1551.
As we reported on Wednesday, the man who shot Gabby Giffords in 2011 purchased the gun legally after passing a background check, and so Mark Kelly’s reason for testifying yesterday was more about his support of gun control in general than any relevance to the Oregon bill. In fact, Kelly acknowledged yesterday that the man who had shot his wife had passed a background check.
Kelly testified as part of a panel along with Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber and Donna Henderson, an Assistant Chief of Investigations at the Portland Police Bureau.
Later in the day, Kelly went shooting at the Portland Police Bureau Central Precinct Range.
An article, published in the March/April 2016 issue of Sonoma Magazine, and titled Congressman Mike Thompson: Taming Gun Violence, misses the mark. These are the first six paragraphs.
Mike Thompson was talking gun safety legislation as he slipped two yellow shells into a 20-gauge Browning shotgun, snapped the breech closed and yelled, “Pull.”
Two orange sporting clays sailed in a low arc above a muddy field, dark clouds hanging over San Pablo Bay in the distance. Thompson aimed and fired twice.
The first flying target shattered, raining debris on the ground below. A second disc suffered the same fate.
The white-haired congressman stared for a moment with a satisfied look before turning to reload.
“I’m just trying to stop the bad guys from getting guns,” Thompson said after a day of shooting, which included an early morning duck hunt at the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area.
But the St. Helena Democrat, lifelong hunter, Vietnam War veteran and chairman of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, has yet to hit his most important mark.
The reason why so many advocates of gun control find it hard to pass their favorite legislation is precisely because many of them aren't willing to let the public share their own love for guns. The photo below was at the top of the article in Sonoma Magazine.
If gun-control advocates want more votes ...
... especially the votes of young women, a group that both parties are actively recruiting, they must accept two facts.- Many of these women are the victims of violent crime, and
- Many of them are preparing themselves so that they can prevent it before it happens.
The purses shown below allow a woman who has a permit to carry a concealed firearm, These are not the only styles that are available.
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The women who buy and use these purses have made the simple decision that they do not want to become victims. Some of them, who have already been the victims of violent crime, were so horrified by it that they don't ever want to repeat that experience or anything like it ever again.  |
The Democrat Party should listen to some very old advice
If you want other people to throw away their guns, set a good example by throwing yours away.That is especially true for Mark Kelly, who used his own Glock handgun to shoot some clay flowerpots while a CNN reporter watched.
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