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<title><![CDATA[Gabrielle Giffords - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/26704.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Gabrielle Giffords]]></description><category domain="26704">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Why I'm Optimistic About Reducing Gun Violence]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/gabby-giffords-why-im-optimistic-about-reducing-gun-violence-in-america/ar-AA165zsf</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gabrielle Giffords</author>
							<description><![CDATA[My life changed forever 12'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' years ago Sunday when'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' bullet tore through my brain.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' In the months that followed, I struggled to walk and talk. My recovery has been long and difficult, but I ultimately beat the odds.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Will Make a Difference in Fighting Gun Violence]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/01/opinions/gabrielle-giffords-gun-violence-in-communities/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gabrielle Giffords</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Survivors of high-profile mass shootings often talk about the swarm of media attention that leaves as suddenly as it comes. One day, everyone wants to talk to you, hear your perspective, share in your pain. The next, they're gone, and all that's left is silence.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Finds Its Voice on Gun Safety]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/22/opinions/america-finds-voice-gun-safety-giffords-kelly/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gabrielle Giffords</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We knew we had to speak up -- and stand up.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' It was December 2012, and 20 kindergartners and first graders had been murdered in their classrooms at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. It was as heartbreaking as it was senseless.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' It was then that we decided to devote...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jo Cox, Orlando and the Horrors of Gun Violence]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/06/20/gabby-giffords-jo-cox-orlando-and-the-horrors-of-gun-violence/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gabrielle Giffords</author>
							<description><![CDATA[She died, and I lived.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Like me, Jo Cox was just 41 when she was shot. Like me, she was doing the essential business of government, meeting with the people she represented, when a sick man attacked her.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' But Jo Cox died. My heart broke when I heard. I will think of her for the rest of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Optimism Can Still Change Gun Politics]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/12/13/giffords-honor-legacy-sandy-hook-victims-gun-violence-column/77245176/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gabrielle Giffords</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I was shot five years ago in January. But it is in December, during the season of lighting candles and pulling loved ones close, that the toll of gun violence on America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s families hurts the most.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' It is in this season and on this day that I think not only of the 20 children lost...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fight Against Political Cowardice on Guns]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/04/16/giffords-gun-laws-tucson-shooting-background-checks-column/7796943/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gabrielle Giffords</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A year ago Thursday, the United States Senate failed us.It was last April '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' mere months after the senseless slaughter of 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' that a minority of senators blocked legislation that would have made it harder for criminals...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Lessons of Physical Therapy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/08/opinion/gabrielle-giffordss-call-for-persistence-on-gun-reform.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gabrielle Giffords</author>
							<description><![CDATA[TODAY, the anniversary of the shooting in Tucson that put a bullet through my head and killed six of my constituents, is when I make my annual resolutions.Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not great, my right arm and leg are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gun Rights Come With Responsibilities]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/07/01/gabrielle-giffords-gun-rights-column/2480751/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gabrielle Giffords</author>
							<description><![CDATA[July 4 gets the parades and the celebrations, as it should. But I'm going to start my celebration of American independence early. Days before we celebrate our Declaration of Independence and the values that make our nation great, I am taking this week to pay tribute to the Second...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Senate in the Gun Lobby's Grip]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/18/opinion/a-senate-in-the-gun-lobbys-grip.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Gabrielle Giffords</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Senators say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets. The fear that those children who survived the massacre must feel every time...]]></description>
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