PHOENIX (AP) As a pro-Trump mob laid siege to the U.S. Capitol this week, former Rep. Gabby Giffords could only wait nervously for news about her husband, Mark Kelly, who was barely a month into his job as a senator from Arizona.
A decade earlier it was Kelly enduring the excruciating wait for news about Giffords, who was shot in the head in an attempted assassination that, like Wednesday’s siege, shocked the nation and prompted a reckoning about the state of politics and discourse in the United States.
For some who survived the attack 10 years ago Friday, the violence inside the U.S. Capitol this week was a painful reminder of that day, when a gunman with paranoid schizophrenia killed six and injured 12, in addition to Giffords, who was meeting with constituents in a grocery store parking lot in Tucson.
Victims in Gabrielle Giffords attack see parallel to Capitol riot Share Updated: 12:24 PM PST Jan 8, 2021 By JONATHAN J. COOPER, Associated Press
Victims in Gabrielle Giffords attack see parallel to Capitol riot Share Updated: 12:24 PM PST Jan 8, 2021
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Show Transcript I ve known the darkest of days, days of pain and uncharted recovery. But confronted by despair, I ve someone s hope. Confronted by paralysis and aphasia, I responded with grit and determination. I put 1 ft in front of the other. I ve found one word and then I found another. My recovery is a daily fight, but fighting makes me stronger. Words once came easily today. I struggled to speak, but I have not lost my voice. American needs all of us to speak out even when you have to fight to find the words. We are at a crossroads. We can let the shoot and continue or we can act. We can protect our families. Our future. We can vote. We can be on the right side of history.
Dedication held for memorial to victims of Tucson shooting
By Associated Press and Brent Corrado
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Friday marks 10th anniversary of Tucson shooting
TUCSON, Ariz. - A dedication ceremony was held on Jan. 8 for a memorial to victims of the 2011
Due to the
coronavirus pandemic, the ceremony on the shooting s 10-year anniversary was not open to the public but several local television stations were expected to broadcast the ceremony and it was livestreamed on Pima County s Facebook page.
The memorial next to the Historic County Courthouse in downtown Tucson was created for the victims, survivors and emergency personnel who responded to the shooting outside a Safeway store where Giffords was holding a meet-and-greet event.
violence. thank you. thank you. more to come. big news from a little state about same sex marriage. later, the new george w. bush library remembers hurricane katrina. i m serious. first, one more thing about the background vote check last month, republican senator kelly ayotte was not the only senator to be held in account for her vote. senator john mccain, who split with his party on this, voted for background checks, he had a town hall meeting, too, and a former aide to gabby giffords wounded in the same mass shooting in tucson that almost killed the congresswoman, she showed up directly to speak to senator mccain. i would like to thank you very much for your vote. that was pam simon, former aide to congresswoman gabby giffords and former family violence survivor. they were not made unanimously.
thank you. more to come. big news from a little state about same sex marriage. later, the new george w. bush library remembers hurricane katrina. i m serious. first, one more thing about the background vote check last month, republican senator kelly ayotte was not the only senator to be held in account for her vote. senator john mccain, who split with his party on this, voted for background checks, he had a town hall meeting, too, and a former aide to gabby giffords wounded in the same mass shooting in tucson that almost killed the congresswoman, she showed up directly to speak to senator mccain. i would like to thank you very much for your vote. that was pam simon, former aide to congresswoman gabby giffords and former family violence survivor. they were not made unanimously.