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A Call To Strengthen Gun Laws Was One Of The Winners In Last Week’s Elections

A Call To Strengthen Gun Laws Was One Of The Winners In Last Week’s Elections

Several factors led to Democratic gains in last week’s elections, especially in the House of Representatives. Some gun-violence prevention organizations are also claiming that their efforts helped pave the way to many of those wins. Giffords PAC, for instance, a political action committee formed by former Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords (who herself was a […]

5y ago

Parkland Teens Launch 50-Stop Bus Tour To Encourage Young Voters To Register For November Elections

Parkland Teens Launch 50-Stop Bus Tour To Encourage Young Voters To Register For November Elections

Survivors of the mass school shooting earlier this year at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida have joined together for a nationwide bus tour aimed at young voters who share their vision for stricter gun laws. The passionate Parkland student activists kicked off their two-month summer bus tour, called Road to Change, with […]

5y ago

Congressman Takes Out Loaded Firearm During Gun Control Meeting, ‘I’m Not Going To Be A Gabby Giffords’

Congressman Takes Out Loaded Firearm During Gun Control Meeting, ‘I’m Not Going To Be A Gabby Giffords’

Congressman Ralph Norman of South Carolina thought pulling out a loaded gun was the best way to prove his argument with regards to the ongoing controversy over gun control. His constituents, however, apparently thought otherwise as they felt unsafe with the gun right in front of them. Norman was in a roundtable meeting in Rock […]

6y ago

Sarah Palin Mulling Libel Lawsuit Against The New York Times

Sarah Palin Mulling Libel Lawsuit Against The New York Times

Sarah Palin suggested on Twitter earlier today that she might sue the New York Times for libel and/or slander. On Wednesday, the Times published an editorial about the shooting of GOP Rep. Steve Scalise at an Alexandria, Virginia, softball field by a Bernie Sanders supporter who also wounded several others among the large group of […]

6y ago

Bernie Sanders On Town Hall Protests: ‘Republicans Haven’t Seen Anything Yet’

Bernie Sanders On Town Hall Protests: ‘Republicans Haven’t Seen Anything Yet’

During an appearance on CNN’s OutFront with Erin Burnett on Thursday night, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders warned Republican members of Congress trying to avoid town hall meetings with their constituents due to fear of “hostile crowds,” saying “they haven’t seen anything yet.” Sanders warned that public backlash against Republican members of Congress would continue because […]

7y ago

Jared Loughner Suing Tuscon Shooting Victim Gabrielle Giffords For $25 Million

Jared Loughner Suing Tuscon Shooting Victim Gabrielle Giffords For $25 Million

Jared Lee Loughner, who is currently serving seven life sentences (consecutive) after admitting to the 2011 shooting of former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, is now suing Giffords, according to reports. The mass shooting that Loughner admitted to carrying out took place in Tuscon, Arizona. Ultimately, Loughner reached a plea agreement with prosecutors, admitting his culpability in […]

8y ago

NRA Tweets Photo Of Bullets Next To Photos Of Two New York Lawmakers, NYC Mayor De Blasio Outraged

NRA Tweets Photo Of Bullets Next To Photos Of Two New York Lawmakers, NYC Mayor De Blasio Outraged

The National Rifle Association (NRA) tweeted a photo of bullets next to photos of two anti-gun New York lawmakers, drawing harsh criticism from the lawmakers themselves as well as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, the New York Daily News is reporting. Sounding off on one of the most ridiculous anti-gun schemes introduced in […]

8y ago

Gabby Giffords And Husband Mark Kelly Ride Bikes 40 Miles In 2015 El Tour De Tucson In Arizona [Video]

Gabby Giffords And Husband Mark Kelly Ride Bikes 40 Miles In 2015 El Tour De Tucson In Arizona [Video]

The shooting of Gabby Giffords may have left her partially paralyzed, but she and her husband, Mark Kelly, just rode bikes 40 miles in the 2015 El Tour de Tucson, an annual charity bike ride event. Giffords may continue to suffer physically from the actions of shooter Jared Lee Loughner, but mentally, she is doing […]

8y ago

NRA Openly Taunts Gunshot Survivor Gabrielle Giffords

NRA Openly Taunts Gunshot Survivor Gabrielle Giffords

Former U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who was nearly killed from a gunshot wound sustained during an attack in 2011, returned to Capitol Hill this week in order to talk to lawmakers about expanding background checks for gun purchases. And while opposition to expansion of background checks for gun purchases from the National Rifle Association (NRA) […]

9y ago

Martha McSally: Gabby Giffords House Seat Won By Pro Gun Air Force Vet

Martha McSally: Gabby Giffords House Seat Won By Pro Gun Air Force Vet

Retired Air Force Colonel and gun-rights supporter Martha McSally has been declared the winner of the Arizona House seat in the Tuscon area formerly held by Rep. Gabby Giffords, thereby flipping the Second Congressional District from Democrat to Republican. The election went to a recount (see video below), and officials announced today that McSally — […]

9y ago

Gabby Giffords To Mark Shooting Anniversary By Skydiving

Gabby Giffords To Mark Shooting Anniversary By Skydiving

Gabby Giffords plans to go skydiving to mark the third anniversary of being injured by a gunman. The former Arizona Democratic House Representative says the jump will serve to mark how far she’s come since being shot. In 2011, a mass shooting claimed the lives of six and injured 12 along with Gabby Giffords in […]

10y ago

Gabby Giffords Attending First Gun Show Since Shooting

Gabby Giffords Attending First Gun Show Since Shooting

Gabby Giffords will attend her first gun show since she was shot in the head during an assassination attempt in 2011. Giffords, the former US Rep. from Arizona, will tour a New York gun show along with her husband, Mark Kelly. Giffords and Kelly, a former combat pilot and astronaut, will take the tour with […]

10y ago

Gabby Giffords Meets With George H.W. Bush Over Gun Control

Gabby Giffords Meets With George H.W. Bush Over Gun Control

Former Representative Gabby Giffords met with President George H.W. Bush and his wife Barbara over gun control. Giffords and her husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly are on their seven-day-seven-state Rights and Responsibilities tour. The purpose of their tour is to increase background checks for those purchasing guns. Some victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting […]

10y ago

Gun Control Reform: 42 Of 45 Senators Who Voted ‘No’ Received Cash From Firearms Lobbyists

Gun Control Reform: 42 Of 45 Senators Who Voted ‘No’ Received Cash From Firearms Lobbyists

After an amendment proposing expanded background checks for gun sales was rejected by the Senate Wednesday, it has been revealed 42 of the 45 senators who voted against the proposal have received donations from pro-shooting groups. Wednesday saw the Senate reject the Manchin-Toomey amendment, with only 54 senators voting for the measure. That was four […]

11y ago

Kelly Gun Purchase Axed By Tucson Gun Store

Kelly Gun Purchase Axed By Tucson Gun Store

Mark Kelly’s planned gun purchase has been canceled, it has been revealed, after news of his plans to buy an AR-15 “assault rifle” were revealed earlier this month. As The Inquisitr reported earlier, Guns Patriots newsletter editor Neil McCabe tipped off the right wing blogosphere about the Kelly gun purchase — one seen as hypocritical […]

11y ago

Gabby Giffords’ Husband Buys AR-15

Gabby Giffords’ Husband Buys AR-15

Mark Kelly, the husband of former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and a gun control activist, recently purchased an AR-15 from a gun store in Tuscon, Arizona. Along with the AR-15, referred to as an “assault weapon” by the media and politicians, Kelly also purchased a 1911-style pistol. Witnesses said that Kelly also purchased “high capacity” magazines […]

11y ago

Gabby Giffords Leads Pledge Of Allegiance At DNC Amid Cheers And Tears From Audience

Gabby Giffords Leads Pledge Of Allegiance At DNC Amid Cheers And Tears From Audience

Former Arizona Representative Gabby Giffords, who survived an assassination attempt on January 8, 2011 at a constituent event, took the stage at the Democratic National Convention Thursday night, leading the crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance. Supported by her longtime friend and colleague, Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Giffords fought through the words in a spirited […]

11y ago

Gabby Giffords Happy To Be Moving Home To Tuscon

Gabby Giffords Happy To Be Moving Home To Tuscon

Gabby Giffords and her husband have moved back to Tuscon, a year and a half after she was moved to a hospital in Houston for intensive therapy following her being shot by a gunman during an appearance at a grocery store. The Associated Press reported that as Giffords’ therapy schedule lessened in Houston, she and […]

11y ago

Loughner Considers Himself A ‘Failure’ For Not Killing Gabby Giffords

Loughner Considers Himself A ‘Failure’ For Not Killing Gabby Giffords

Phoenix, AZ – According to a psychologist’s report released Thursday, Tuscon gunman Jared Lee Loughner, who killed six people and severely wounded former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, considers the whole incident moot since he wasn’t able to kill Giffords. The report also warns that though Loughner was competent to plead guilty in the Tuscon mass shooting, […]

11y ago

Gabby Giffords ‘Satisfied’ With Loughner Plea Bargain

Gabby Giffords ‘Satisfied’ With Loughner Plea Bargain

Gabby Giffords has signed off on Jared Loughner’s potential plea bargain, which would spare her shooter the death penalty. Loughner plead guilty Tuesday for a shooting rampage that killed six and wounded many more, including former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The plea will spare Loughner the death penalty, and came soon after a federal judge ruled […]

11y ago

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