Timecode 1:45.
After Jared Loughner shot Gabbie Giffords and several others, Patricia Maisch was able to grab one of his (sadly, legal) extended magazines away from him. And yesterday, all Maisch did was to shout “shame on you” at the senators who voted down the background checks amendment. So she was escorted out of the building.
Outside the Senate chamber Wednesday, Maisch was surrounded by reporters. “When I was told it was done, I decided that I could not stay still any longer, that they need to be ashamed of themselves,” she said. “They have no souls. They have no compassion for the experiences that people have lived through … [having] a child or loved one murdered by a gun. They say that it’s not the gun, it’s the man. I’m here to tell you … The man and the gun become intimate and they cannot do the act without each other. So the gun is part of the problem.”
Well said. Shame on all of them, and shame on all of us for not working hard enough to overcome the NRA.