According to his bio-blurb, politico, Alex Brant-Zawadzki is a “journalist and politico [who] currently studies public affairs at the Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good. He loves Haagen-Dazs and justice.” And just as Haagen-Dazs is a made-up word created to convey Scandinavian provenance, Brant-Zawadski’s has ginned-up some less-than-credible gun-related mockrage for HuffPo. “On August 26 the Pima County Republican Party sent out its regular online newsletter [image above]. For just $10, readers can purchase a raffle ticket (out of 125 offered) for a chance to win a brand new handgun. Not just any handgun, but a Glock 23.” And that’s bad because it’s “the same type of gun used in the attempted assassination of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.” Just in case you missed that . . .
Arizona Republicans surely know just how effective this particular brand of gun can be. After all, it was only eight months ago that Jared Lee Loughner used a Glock 19 in Tucson – the seat of Pima County – to shoot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in the head. Giffords survived, but six other people, including a nine year old girl and a federal judge, were killed in the same shooting.
The raffle gun comes preloaded with adjustable grips, a case, and three 12-round magazines. Glock USA describes the model as “a slightly reduced size of a full-size handgun for easier concealment but still retains the performance on the level of a serious big bore.”
Let’s see… with 125 tickets, at $10 a ticket, the PCRP could pull in a cool $1,250 – minus whatever their souls are worth, of course.
That’s a bit . . . subtle. Yeah? Well subtle this.
“Many of us know Gabby and we’re all praying for her continued recovery,” PCRP vice chairman Mike Shaw told FoxNews.com. “The whole thing was horrible and that adds a lot of sensitivity to the seat.”
Speaking of sensitivity – you have no idea how sensitive the trigger is on this sweet baby we’re raffling! All the easier to fire those 36 bullets you’ll get in those three magazines. Loughner only got off 32 shots. Think you can do better? Then give us your money.
Never mind ice cream; that’s COLD. And this from the side of political spectrum that took Sarah Palin to task for using a firearms metaphor on her Facebook page. Wait! A new flavor! Hypocrisy and hyperbole. Pass.