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                       A tale of tragic irony


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                       Barbara Graham was sentenced to 10 years to life for shooting
                       and paralyzing an innocent 23-year-old man she blamed for
                       killing her 19-year-old son.

                       That's a triple tragedy, for Graham is a 49-year-old mother who
                       has now been removed from her other children.

                       It's also ironic beyond words because Barbara Graham is an
                       active member of a Maryland group that helped organize the
                       Million Mom March against firearms last year in Washington.

                       Let me repeat that: Barbara Graham used a gun to paralyze an
                       innocent man, is pleading for leniency from the courts for her
                       actions, and she is an activist involved in demanding that firearm
                       possession be more severely restricted in this country.

                       To top it off, when she was arrested in the shooting case, police
                       found two guns at her bedside.

                       Graham had supporters throughout her trial   leaders of the
                       Million Moms group. Even though she owned guns and used
                       one to shoot an innocent man, she is a heroine, in an odd sort of
                       way, to a group that seeks more government controls on
                       firearms, more limits on gun possession, maybe even an
                       outright ban on them.

                       Hello? Earth to the Million Moms   why does this not compute?

                       By the way, Graham, who sometimes uses other names   like
                       Lipscomb and Martin   did not shoot Kikko Smith in a fit of rage
                       or on instinct. She is convicted of plotting an ambush of him
                       along with a co-defendant, Erskine Moorer, who has already
                       been sentenced to 15 years to life in the case.

                       Meanwhile, a trial has been set for Daniel William Jackson Jr., the
                       accused shooter of Graham's son.

                       I raise all this with you today because I think it symbolizes the
                       total disconnect from reality that infects the minds of those who
                       want to seize my guns and your guns but see no problem
                       possessing and using guns themselves. Clearly, if anyone in this
                       country should be denied the right to own a gun, it's someone
                       like Graham. Yet, she is one of the organizers of the anti-gun
                       movement.

                       It's incredible. Yet it's a story that has hardly been told   a
                       factoid that is probably too discomfiting to warrant big play in
                       the pro-government, anti-freedom, anti-Second Amendment big
                       media......

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