RPB wrote:She chose to make herself a "public figure" and issue a nationwide "position statement" on Good Morning America ... I didn't make her do that ... I just responded, which she should expect if she chooses to do that.
Oh give me a break. You know as well as I do that if her view was different she would not have been on GMA. She didn't choose anything. The news media interviews every witness and relative in an incident like this and selectively culls the ones who fit their predefined narrative. The only thing this girl has done is respond to questions in a way that made her very attractive to the news media. She is a victim, not an activist. Should she later choose to become an antigun activist, then by all means, oppose her at every turn.
Read this carefully:
Photo Courtesy - ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Nearly one month after she lost her fiancé Gabe Zimmerman to a bullet in a Tucson, Arizona parking lot, Kelly O'Brien called on the Arizona state legislature to pass a bill that would reduce the amount of bullets in a magazine to 10.
“I absolutely support it. Most people own hand guns for self-defense and there is nothing you can do with 10 bullets that you can do with 30,” she told ABC News in an exclusive interview. “And it is so sad to see 19 people gunned down in just 15 seconds by one of these extended capacity clips.”
Note that the first sentence
does not quote O'Brien. It's the news editor's interpretation of her answer to a question. In the second sentence, she is responding to a question - do you support Arizona passing the hi-cap magazine ban? I can guarantee you that the media knew the answer they were going to get before they asked the question in a televised interview. Had she said, "Absolutely not!" you wouldn't even know her name.
