Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong

Igor Volsky: Gabby Giffords's 'Nasty' Ad Causes GOP Candidate To Embrace Gun Safety Law: "A political campaign ad that led some media outlets to describe Gabby Giffords...

...as a “mean” and “ruthless attack dog” convinced a Republican congressional nominee on Tuesday to support reforms that prohibit convicted stalkers from owning guns.... Republican Martha McSally, who is running for the Congressional seat Giffords held before she was shot in the head in 2011, confirmed to the Huffington Post that McSally now supports legislation that would prohibit all people convicted of misdemeanor stalking “from obtaining guns in other states where stalking can also be a misdemeanor.”