Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms. Gabrielle Giffords Read Quote
From Texas to New Hampshire and everywhere in between, we know that support for policies such as expanded background checks continue to be popular in both parties. Gabrielle Giffords Read Quote
I’ve been working hard: lots of therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy, yoga too. Gabrielle Giffords Read Quote
Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something. Gabrielle Giffords Read Quote
Expanding background checks will help create a uniform standard for all gun purchases and prevent criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining powerful weapons. Gabrielle Giffords Read Quote
Generations of gun owners have taught their sons and daughters that it takes as much patience and skill to be a good shot as it does to be a good steward of a powerful weapon. Gabrielle Giffords Read Quote
Countless hours of physical therapy – and the talents of the medical community – have brought me new movement in my right arm. It’s fractional progress, and it took a long time, but my arm moves when I tell it to. Gabrielle Giffords Read Quote
Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it’s never easy, because once you’ve mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest. Gabrielle Giffords Read Quote
Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight’s not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress. Gabrielle Giffords Read Quote
People have told me that I’m courageous, but I have seen greater courage. Gabrielle Giffords Read Quote
