Today marks 15 years since a gunman tried to assassinate me. He shot 19 people and killed six.
I almost died, and think of those who did every day.
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Today marks 15 years since a gunman tried to assassinate me. He shot 19 people and killed six.
I almost died, and think of those who did every day.
15 years ago today, former Representative Gabby Giffords was wounded in a horrific act of political violence when a gunman opened fire at a public event in Tucson, Arizona.
In Congress, I’m dedicated to uplifting her mission by working to make our communities safer through commonsense gun reform.
Fifteen years ago today, a gunman opened fire while my wife Gabby Giffords met with constituents outside a Tucson grocery store. Six people were killed. Thirteen others were injured – including Gabby. That day changed everything for my family and our community.
20 years ago this week, Congress gave the gun industry the biggest special interest giveaway in the history of the United States. giffords.org/analysis/how...
I’ve heard about a politician—I won’t name names—who periodically assembles every single one of his senior advisors around a giant table and makes them all, one by one, heap praise and flattery on him while cameras capture the entire degrading exercise
This tragic weekend underscores the need to keep guns away from unhinged violent extremists of any stripe.
But this Congress/Administration won't lift a finger because they care more about enriching their gun industry CEO campaign donors than stopping gun attacks.
someone do a study on the number of meetings pre vs post COVID
"13-year-old boy with 'school shooter ideations' found with collection of guns, 'mass shooting' writings: Sheriff"
A 13 year old had all of this. The greedy gun lobby will tell you nothing needs to change—they just see dollar signs.
abcnews.go.com/US/boy-schoo...
online influencers get paid??!! No way. Next you'll try to tell me wrestling is fake.
Of everything Gen Z has done, routinely wearing the shirt of the band whose concert you’re at is the most upsetting
Pro-gun Bearing Arms makes the perfect argument for mandatory background checks on secondary market sales & safe storage laws (to reduce gun theft).
Join us for the People’s Town Hall in Michigan’s 10th Congressional District with Congresswoman @gabbygiffords.bsky.social and US Sen. @captmarkkelly.bsky.social on Friday, July 25 to tell us how you've been impacted by Republicans’ dangerous agenda. Sign up to attend. michigandems.com/CD10TownHall
Shouldn’t the NY Times headline note that this new policy breaks the law?
Gabby Giffords responds to Minnesota killings with pleas for reform and peace
www.postandcourier.com/politics/gab...
1) Chattel slavery was evil, full stop.
2) Not every person on the Confederate side has to be "evil" for the defense of slavery to deserve categorization as such.
3) Treason in the defense of slavery is without honor, and deserves no honor — because treason _period_ deserves no honor.
NEW:
Buyer With Ties to Chinese Communist Party Got V.I.P. Treatment at Trump Crypto Dinner
The warm welcome for a technology executive whose purchases of the $TRUMP coin won him a White House tour illustrates inconsistencies in Trump's views toward visitors from China
nyti.ms/4mUDTtG
NEW: Battleground voters—including Trump supporters—strongly reject GOP efforts to make gun silencers easier to get.
Silencers make shootings deadlier, and voters know it.
🚨 “GIFFORDS has a new poll from Senate battleground states showing that GOP efforts to make gun silencers more easily available is deeply unpopular…large majorities of voters — including voters for President Donald Trump — don’t want to see that happen”
In a filing late last week, Trump's DOJ said silencers are "specially adaptable to criminal misuse."
Meanwhile, Trump & Hill R's are fighting to eliminate mandatory background checks for them.
Donald Trump is making the gun industry a lot of money by helping murderers kill more people
NEWS: After being pressed on her decision to cut $1B from school mental health programs that have bipartisan support, Secretary McMahon accepts@gabbygiffords.bsky.social invitation to meet with school shooting survivors & families.
We hope she follows through and are eager to facilitate.
.@gabbygiffords.bsky.social wrote to Education Sec. Linda McMahon about the $1B she cut from a school mental health program with broad bipartisan support, asked her to meet with survivors of school shootings.
Updating my data - here is the total value of the most serious alleged direct benefits to past presidents or family members as compiled by o3 with the $400M plane added. No comparison.
People are out there using 16 ounces of water to generate an image of a blue sky when they could just open the window (and drink the water)
Our president claims that America’s gun violence crisis is a mental health issue, and then slashed ONE BILLION DOLLARS in school mental health resources.
@gabbygiffords.bsky.social was on the hill today urging members of Congress to stand against this dangerous agenda.
I don’t think we talk enough about the fact that Pete Hegseth doesn’t believe in the germ theory of disease and consequently doesn’t wash after he wipes www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
