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Contact: Speaker’s Press Office, 202-226-7616 Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today marking the tenth anniversary of ....
Jan 12, 2021 Last week, to mark the 10-year anniversary of the shooting in Tucson, Arizona, that killed six people and wounded Gabby Giffords, a former congresswoman, Biden put out a statement saying as president his aim is to“defeat” the NRA. In the released statement, Biden says, “as President, I pledge to continue to work together with Congresswoman Giffords, and with survivors, families, and advocates across the country, to defeat the NRA and end the epidemic of gun violence in America.” “Ten years ago today, in Tucson, Arizona, six innocent lives were taken away by a senseless and brutal act of violence: Dorothy Morris, Judge John Roll, Phyllis Scheck, Dorwin Stoddard, Gabriel Zimmerman, and nine-year-old Christina Taylor Green. In the decade since, too many families have known the pain of losing a loved one to gun violence, of futures stolen and dreams cut down before their time. Today, Jill and I remember the people we lost in Tucson, and all of ....
TUCSON (KVOA) - President-elect Joe Biden shared his sentiments about one of Tucson s darkest days on Friday in correspondence to the 10-year anniversary of the mass shooting. On Jan. 8, 2011, former U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords was among the 13 wounded during a mass shooting at the congresswoman’s “Congress on Your Corner” event at a Casas Adobes Safeway. That day also claimed the lives of six people – Christina-Taylor Green, Dorothy “Dot” Morris, John Roll, Phyllis Schneck, Dorwan Stoddard and Gabriel “Gabe” Zimmerman. After the tragic day, then President Barack Obama visited the Old Pueblo to lead a memorial service at the University of Arizona on Jan. 12, 2011. ....
Capitol uprising reminds Gabby Giffords of the day she was shot, six were killed 10 years ago Updated Jan 08, 2021; Facebook Share Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had just been sworn in to her third term representing Arizona’s 8th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. On Jan. 8, 2011, she was in Pima County, Ariz., near Tucson, meeting with constituents during a “Congress on Your Corner” event outside a Safeway grocery store. On that day, 10 years ago, a man with a gun ran up to her and others and began shooting. Giffords, 40, was shot in the head at close range. Six people – including a federal judge, a child and Giffords’ director of community outreach – were killed. ....
Monsignor John Lyons, on Judge John Roll Be he a beggar or a king, he respected everyone equally. That was who he was. Quote icon The city prosecutor position was one of his first jobs after graduating from the University of Arizona College of Law in 1972. He stayed only four months before moving to the Pima County Attorney’s Office, where he almost didn’t get hired because the chief deputy county attorney, James Howard, said he thought Roll “was too bashful and quiet to be a trial lawyer.” Howard was wrong. In his seven years in the office, Roll prosecuted more jury trials than anyone in the office and won almost all of them. ....