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>> I'd like to know whose idea this was. She is anti-gun so not sure why the military chose a warship. Had to be Dems idea.
@sweetie:
I am supprised the Democrats did not want to name it the USS Resist Trump.
@Metro07:Â Actually, Congress approved the name of the ship soon after she was shot and before it was even built. The ship is going to be launched from the Galveston port soon. What makes it even more unusual is that it is very rare to name a ship after a living person.
@Retired_Engineer: 13 ships since 1850 have been named after living people most of them after 1950 including Henry M. Jackson, Carl Vinson, John C. Stennis, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George Bush(shamelessly stolen from Wikipedia) all of them having fairly deep ties to the Navy which is true of Gabrielle Giffords. I honestly think the Navy was just looking to get some more press time for their really expensive toys so they named it after a hot topic on capital hill.
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