Guns in AmericaA few minutes before 10 AM on Saturday, January 8 in Tucson, Arizona, Giffords staged her first “Congress on Your Corner” in a Safeway parking lot. Giffords and her aides set up a table in front of the supermarket, preparing to meet with her constituents.
A few minutes later, a young man approached one of the staffers and told her he wanted to speak with the congresswoman. The staffer asked him to stand in line, where about 20 other people were already waiting. The young man did so.
Abruptly, he left the line and walked up to the congresswoman, approaching within about four feet of her. He raised a Glock 9mm pistol and fired, and Giffords immediately collapsed. The gunman turned and began shooting into the crowd without pause until the 30-round clip was exhausted.
While one of the congresswoman's aides applied pressure to her wound, the gunman loaded a fresh ammunition clip, but the gun jammed when he tried to fire again. Two other bystanders tackled the gunman, bringing him to the ground.
In the days after the shooting, Palin posted a video to her Facebook page in which she said, “After this shocking tragedy, I listened at first puzzled, then with concern, and now with sadness, to the irresponsible statements from people attempting to apportion blame for this terrible event. Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own. They begin and end with the criminals who commit them... not with maps of swing districts used by both sides of the aisle, not with law-abiding citizens who respectfully exercise their First Amendment rights at campaign rallies, not with those who proudly voted in the last election.”
As of 2/21 Congresswoman Giffords, according to www.huffingtonpost.com, is laughing at jokes and eating sushi and even spoke the word "better" when asked recently by her husband how she was doing. She has reached several important milestones and is several weeks into a process that medical experts say will be a lengthy and grueling effort.
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