and you learn how to work with other people in space. but that s not politics. the world will stand a little more straight, yeah. gabby gave more credibility. i mean she had already made her bones in arizona. she had proven herself. and here s mark. he s coming from somewhere else. why should we support him? oh, gabby thinks he s okay. gabby trusts him. the best time to hunt is december to april. okay. i don t think he wants to make gun legislation his central issue. that doesn t work in arizona. this campaign was so important. i wanted to add my voice. mark s team had wanted to put together an ad. we really sat down and worked line by line. okay. let s pull this up.
do you want the red one or the pink one? you pick. typically, with an injury to the brain with a gunshot wound, survival is not likely. it s less than 10% that they would even survive. you try it. gabby was significantly impaired. here s a kleenex. i want you to blow it to move the kleenex. okay? you try. i want you to pucker your lips. can you make it move? you re talking to somebody on the phone. they re not going to be able to hear you if just say so, you have to turn your voice on and tell them, ah. let me hear it. okay. open your mouth. is that hard, gabby?
tens of thousands of flowers blanket the national mall in washington this week. 40,000 white roses. each flower represents a life lost to gun violence every year in the united states. the installation was built by a gun violence prevention organization that is run by former congresswoman gabby giffords. it s so good to see you. thank you. thank you. and look at this. i would like for every member of congress to come out here and take a look at every flower that represents someone s loved one. and i would ask the people who don t get it yet, which flower represented a mother, a father, a son, a daughter, a child, a sibling? which one of these flowers is not worth members of congress doing something about it?
astronaut program and were fortunate enough to be selected to the same class in 1996. tell me how you two fell in love. where did we meet? vancouver. vancouver. on the way to an overseas trip. gabrielle giffords, then an arizona state rep, and astronaut mark kelly met in 2003 on a cultural exchange visit. we sat next to each other on the airplane. she laughs at my jokes even when they re bad. funny. funny, funny, funny. it s the one thing i noticed about her. who was the bigger talker? gabby giffords. yeah. yeah. i would say so. yin and yang.
i did not like the trajectory of our country. i didn t like where we were going and, you know, you can sit around and complain about it, or you can try to do something about it. gabby was a public servant. i learned a lot from her about how to enact policies to improve people s lives. on so many different issues we care about global warming. we care about global warming, health care. health care. gabby was in the hospital for six months. yes. and without excellent health care yes. in gabby s case, provided by the united states government as a member of congress, i don t know what we would have done. yes, yes. gabby s, what s the campaign like? so exciting. a lot of this stuff, especially campaigning, comes much easier to her. i don t think mark came to politics naturally. this is a guy who was an astronaut. you know, you go up into space, and you learn how to fix things,