The vessel, a 418-foot combat ship bearing machine guns and missiles, will be officially launched in a ceremony next week.
PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — Gabrielle Giffords couldn’t say much, but what she said brought down the house. The Jewish former Arizona congresswoman, shot in the head by an assailant in 2011, made an appearance at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday evening, its third, during a segment on victims of gun violence. “Are you ready?” she…
President Barack Obama vowed on Saturday that federal investigators would find out what motivated a married couple in California to shoot and kill 14 people, and he asked Americans to stand united after the attacks.
The U.S. Navy christened a combat ship named after former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona.
Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords went skydiving Wednesday to mark the three year anniversary of a shooting rampage that left the Arizona Democrat badly wounded with a gunshot to the head.
Former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was in New York on Sunday to tour her first gun show since being shot in the head to review new measures that require background checks for buyers.
Former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords received the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award on Sunday, asking the U.S. Congress to act more courageously on the issue of gun control.
Jewish gun control advocates are still smarting from their dramatic defeat in the Senate. But they have a plan to revive the measure, which most Americans support.
The U.S. senators who defeated a bill that would toughen background checks for gun purchasers “brought shame on themselves,” former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords said.
Former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is set to receive the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for her efforts to curb gun violence since she was seriously wounded in a Tucson shooting rampage two years ago.