the uss gabby giffords. the ship. the ship named after you. it s very stealthy. stealthy. awesome. yep. gabby s helmet, the helmet that she had to wear because they took off part of her skull. and this is the piece of skull that was removed from the side of her head when she was shot right here. so, this was the model that they built the plate out of. that look about right? and then the real skull, this stays in this stays in here next to the empanadas and the sliced mango.
happy birthday dear gabby now, i am giving speeches agagain. i am studying for my bp bar bp bbar mitsvah and i am r bike to tucson. music? yes. when you face hard tiw do you move forward? i tell myself move ahead. oh, out of the blue. i don t look back. look back.
nra that has successfully mobilized at a grass roots level and is able to stoke fear. i want to be clear. that tragedy in tucson was a terrible crime. in my heart and i know yours does too goes out to all the victims and their loved ones. but it s time for some frank talk. the media and the political elites want us to believe that if we just pass another law or two, we can stop a mad man bent on violence. when they tell you that a government ban on certain firearms or magazines will somehow make you safer, don t you buy it, not for one second. i want you to try to scream it out. say, now i m free! now i m free free falling when gabby was in the hospital, i would have this recurring dream of things being back to normal.
it s just going to take a little work. that s why gabby and i are here. mothers and fathers of sandy hook victims met with some senators who agree with them and some who don t. in some cases, the president has used them as props. do you solemnly swear the testimony you ll give in this matter will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you god? he s a retired astronaut and u.s. navy captain. please go ahead, sir. do you know our family has been immeasurably affected by gun violence? gabby s gift for speech is a distant memory. she struggles to walk, and she is partially blind. i think there are really some very effective things that we can do, and one is, senator, the background check. let s make it difficult for the criminals, the terrorists, and the mentally ill to get a gun.
right here. we all believed that the next step for gabby was to run for senate. i m gabrielle giffords, and i approved this message. in fact, the schedule was the day after the shooting that she and i were flying back to washington to start planning out her next move. she had the energy and ambition, i think, to have gone really far in politics. one, two, three, up. perfect. gabby was partially paralyzed on her right side. she might be able to walk again. go, go. good. but it was very unlikely that she was going to be able to have significant use of her right arm. there it is. there it is. there it is. hold it. hold it. oh girls, they want to have fun no, girls just want to have fun they want to have fun i remember each morning