Sentences with phrase «congresswoman gabrielle»

Witness the Aug. 1 tribute that Republicans and Democrats, still raw from the debt ceiling fight, paid to Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords as she returned to the House for the first time since an assassination attempt in January.

The Women's March, Everytown for Gun Safety and the gun violence prevention group founded by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords provided heavy support for the march, opening the youths up to criticism that they are just pawns of left - wing organizations that have been fighting guns for years.

In the wake of the attempt made on congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords» life, head of environment at the Guardian, Damien Carrington asks,

It is this need to find a cause for every horrifying happening that gives rise to Tom Zoellner's A Safeway in Arizona, which examines the circumstances leading up to (although not necessarily responsible for) the January 8, 2011, massacre near Tucson that left six people dead and U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords gravely wounded with a bullet through her brain.

In their analysis, the researchers considered the 2011 mass shooting in Tucson, Ariz., where Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others were shot and the 2014 mass shooting in Isla Vista, Calif., near the University of Santa Barbara campus, to determine the potential impact of GVROs.

Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is resting in a medically induced coma.

Mark Kelly, the husband of wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, will command the STS - 134 space shuttle mission to deliver the AMS to the International Space Station: Rep. Giffords's husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, plans to command April space shuttle flight

In a court hearing last Wednesday in San Diego, California, district judge Larry Burns ruled that doctors in Springfield, Missouri, could continue to forcibly dispense antipsychotic medicines to Jared Lee Loughner, who on 8 January shot and killed six people and injured 13, including Democrat congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

It wasn't long after the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others in Tucson, Ariz., that speculation emerged about a possible connection between the shooting and the contemporary U.S. political environment.

JIMMY: The subtext of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's visit to an upstate gun show yesterday with former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly was that Schneiderman is positioning himself as a relative moderate on Second Amendment issues, at least in New York.

The state's congressional delegation got a lot of cutaway shots, including U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty, whose district includes Newtown, and her guest, former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle (Gabby) Giffords, an advocate for legislation to reduce the sort of gun violence she suffered.

At noon on Monday at City Hall, «Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and Captain Mark Kelly, the Co-Founders of the gun violence prevention organization Americans for Responsible Solutions PAC, will join Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, State Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh, and other city and state leaders for a press conference as part of Congresswoman Giffords» and Captain Kelly's 2016 Vocal Majority Tour, a 14 - state, 42 - day national bus tour that stretches until Election Day.»

I am further bolstered by the genuine joy expressed by U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in her account of the awakening of her friend and colleague Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords during a visit to the shooting victim's hospital room.

Among the other groups calling for the law's adoption were New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Everytown for Gun Safety, and the Giffords Law Center, which was founded by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly.

Common Sense Connecticut, a group funded by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords» national gun control Super PAC, Americans for Responsible Solutions, has spent nearly $ 745,000 in the state this year.

This nation has seen firsthand how destructive violent rhetoric can be — we all remember Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords — which is why I am troubled that Congresswoman Nan Hayworth has yet to denounce her official campaign spokesman's comment.

Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords discusses gun violence prevention near City Hall steps.Madina Toure / Observer

By Madina Toure Former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords — the victim of a famous 2011 mass shooting — swung by City Hall to call on New Yorkers and their elected officials to «fight, fight, fight!»

«Anthony Brindisi recognizes that respecting responsible gun ownership is consistent with strong, effective gun laws,» said former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, co-founder of Giffords.

God bless and care for Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and guide her to a speedy and full recovery.

Not exact matches

The DCCC did, and didn't get any love in return from the protestors, who subsequently demonstrated outside a high - dollar fundraiser the committee held to benefit 15 House members seeking re-election this fall — including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (even though the Arizona congresswoman, who's still recovering from her near - fatal head wound, hasn't said yet if she's running).

Edie Windsor, LGBT Activist Robbie Kaplan, Litigator for United States vs. Windsor Gabrielle Giffords, Congresswoman and founder, Giffords

By focusing on the specific (and frequently heartbreaking) stories of the aforementioned parents, former Congresswoman and gun - violence survivor Gabrielle Giffords, and Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts — who was motivated to action by Newtown and unwittingly sparked a grassroots movement on Facebook — the film lays out the gaping holes in the system where regulations are needed, and offers hopeful examples of activism in the face of what often feels like an insurmountable problem.

But when his wife, Gabrielle Giffords, the former Congresswoman from Arizona, was gunned down during a 2011 shooting spree outside a Tucson supermarket, all the couple's expectations and dreams shifted in an instant.

The former Arizona congresswoman, Gabrielle Giffords, is recovering from a near - fatal shooting in Tucson, Ariz..

No one knows better than Capt. Mark Kelly and his wife Gabrielle Giffords, the former Arizona congresswoman who was critically injured in a shooting spree three and a half years ago, about how life can change on a dime.