After shooting deaths in Aurora, CO, Sandy Hook and at her own event in Arizona, former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has had enough of gun violence in America and is tackling the issue head on with actions to put a stop to the shooting madness.
Two years after the shooting massacre that wounded Giffords and killed 6 others, Giffords and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, have launched “Americans for Responsible Solutions,” a political action committee aimed at getting “elected officials to stand up for solutions to prevent gun violence and protect responsible gun ownership.”
In the announcement of their new venture, including efforts to diminish the power of the gun lobby, Giffords and Kelly said:
“Special interests purporting to represent gun owners but really advancing the interests of an ideological fringe have used big money and influence to cow Congress into submission.
“Rather than working to find the balance between our rights and the regulation of a dangerous product, these groups have cast simple protections for our communities as existential threats to individual liberties. Rather than conducting a dialogue, they threaten those who divert from their orthodoxy with political extinction.
“Until now, the gun lobby’s political contributions, advertising and lobbying have dwarfed spending from anti-gun violence groups. No longer. With Americans for Responsible Solutions engaging millions of people about ways to reduce gun violence and funding political activity nationwide, legislators will no longer have reason to fear the gun lobby.”
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