Gabby Giffords smiles as her iPad chimes. Sentence formed. Way too easy. The smile is magnetic, if slightly crooked: Her dimples burrow a little deeper on the left side. Her left eyebrow is more expressive, while the right looks permanently arched.
She raises her left hand, the good one, palm forward, smashing it against some invisible barrier. Her jaw clenched, she’s locked in a wrestling match with herself. But the Broca can’t be bullied. Her hand drops, shoulders sag. She turns to her therapist. On November 6, 2018, the impossible happened. Hundreds of candidates for Congress ran on guns. In some key battleground House districts, candidates from both parties supported gun safety. The Democrats flipped the House, and 40 incumbents Giffords Courage had targeted on guns were ejected. Of course there were other factors, but for the first time in decades, exit polls indicated guns as a major issue, with most people votinggun safety.
Gabby and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, preparing breakfast together in their home in Tucson, July 2020.Gabrielle Giffords was born June 8, 1970, just outside Tucson, on the edge of the vast, unforgiving Sonoran Desert. She grew up on horseback, inseparable from Buckstretcher, her trusty Appaloosa. She dressed in leather jackets and Doc Martens and had an angelic smile and tousled chestnut hair that looked far too luxurious for a second grader mucking out the manure at Bel Air Stables.
She landed a fast-track consulting job for Price Waterhouse in Manhattan, but in 1996 she drove her Ford F-150 pickup back to Tucson to take over the family business, a chain of 11 discount tire stores called El Campo Tire & Service Centers. She’d pitch in changing tires and see how brutal the searing Tucson pavement was on tread. She said reading a tire taught her how to read legislation later: Identify the weak spots.
Most gun suicides are impulsive acts, so anything that blocks instantaneous access to a weapon helps, including waiting periods, biometric safety locks, red-flag laws, and mental-health restrictions on permits. The key to slashing urban homicides is breaking the cycle of violence. After Parkland, the MFOL kids partnered with Chicago’s young Peace Warriors, who call themselves “violence interrupters.
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light or fight? It’s ok I have typos in my tweets as well...
She is a strong n courageous women!!! Excellent!!
Thank you Vanity Fair. This is what I want to read about. Not the Duchess of Sussex.
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