There may be no one senator spotlighted so intensely about her vote against background checks for gun-buyers as New Hampshire’s Kelly Ayotte. Fifty percent of New Hampshire voters surveyed by Public Policy Polling after the vote said they would be...
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Members of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America wait to enter the office of Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) at Russell Senate Office Building on April 17, 2013 in Washington, DC. The group held a 'Stroller Jam' event to call on senators to vote to strengthen gun regulations.
Kelly Ayotte Gets Her Gun Ads
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Sen. Jeff Flake meets with the public on March 28, 2013 in Prescott, Arizona.
Kelly to Flake: Had Your Chance
Now it gets personal. The failure of gun-control legislation in the Senate will come with as many political repercussions as the passage of a bill would have generated. Mark Kelly, the retired astronaut married to former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the...
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Shooting victim and former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) and her husband Mark Kelly at the U.S. Capitol April 16, 2013.
Giffords: Six Years After Virginia Tech, Presses for Newtown Action
Updated at 2:50 pm EDT Six years ago today, 32 people were gunned down on the campus of Virginia Tech, notes former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was seriously wounded in a 2011 outdoor shooting in Tucson, Arizona, that also killed...
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Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, D-W.Va., left, and Sen. Patrick Toomey, R-Pa., arrive at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, on April 10, 2013, to announce that they have reached a bipartisan deal on expanding background checks to more gun buyers.
Toomey, Manchin: Read Second Amendment Rights Protection Act
Read it, say Sens. Pat Toomney and Joe Manchin: The Public Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act. In the art of bill title as political statement, this one’s a classic. They put their bill online last night. Manchin even...
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Retired NASA astronaut and Navy Capt. Mark Kelly, right, and his wife, shooting victim and former Rep. Gabby Giffords arrive for a Senate Judiciary Committee followed by Chairman Patrick Leahy and ranking member Sen. Chuck Grassley before hearing about gun control on Capitol Hill on Jan. 30, 2013.
Giffords on Gun Control: ‘Time is Now’
“The time is now.” The words of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, who was grievously wounded in a gunman’s attack in Tucson in2011, appearing today at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee. “You must act,” Giffords told the...
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Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) speaks during a press conference responding to comments made earlier in the day by the National Rifle Association on Dec. 21, 2012 in Washington.
Blumenthal Says Gun-Control Momentum Must Be Sustained
As many congressional Republicans and the National Rifle Association oppose efforts to enact new gun legislation following the shootings of 20 elementary school students and six educators in Newtown, Connecticut, they know that public outrage often diminishes as memories of...
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Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, center, holds hands with her husband, Mark Kelly, while exiting Town Hall at Fairfield Hills Campus in Newtown, Conn. after meeting with Newtown officials on Jan. 4, 2013. Giffords also met with families of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre.
Giffords Gun-Control Packs Texan Cash: Trial Lawyers in for $1 Million
Steve and Amber Mostyn, wealthy Texas trial attorneys, said today that they are giving $1 million to help start the gun-control advocacy group formed by former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly. Steve Mostyn, one of...
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Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was critically injured two years ago when a gunman opened fired in Tucson, Arizona, and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly talk to Diane Sawyer about the need for changes in gun control laws and greater awareness of mental health issues on Jan. 5, 2013 in New York City.
Tucson Two Years Later, Newtown: `Whose Child Has to Die Next?’
Two years after the Tucson, Arizona, shootings that critically injured former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, she and her husband are adding their voices to a movement for gun control. Big-city mayors are marking the anniversary with a TV ad tailored for...
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A man places a plush doll at a makeshift memorial for Sandy Hook shooting victims on Dec. 19, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut.
Gun Control: Support Modestly Up Since Newtown Shootings
If there’s been a notable shift in Washington’s rhetoric about gun control since Newtown, public opinion has moved only modestly. Following the shooting of 20 children and six educators at a primary school in Connecticut last week, American opinion about...
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FBI agent covers the broken window of the apartment of James Holmes, the suspect who opened fire in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.
Post-Colorado Shooting: Gun Control Sentiment no Stronger Than Before
The gun-slaying of 12 people in Aurora, Colorado, has barely moved the needle on public opinion about gun control in America. Forty-seven percent of those surveyed by the Pew Research Center say it is more important to control gun ownership,...
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