On the two year anniversary of the Tucson shooting that killed 6 and injured 19 including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, she and her husband have launched Americans for Responsible Solutions, a political action committee designed to “join a national conversation about gun violence prevention, will raise the funds necessary to balance the influence of the gun lobby.”
In a USAToday op-ed co-written with her husband, Astronaut Mark Kelly, Giffords describes the joy of her own recovery “diminished” by the “all too familiar” images of gun violence she’s seen since. “America has seen an astounding 11 mass shootings since a madman used a semiautomatic pistol with an extended ammunition clip to shoot me and kill six others,” she writes.
Giffords and Kelly point to their gun ownership—they said they have two guns locked away in their own home—as proof that they don’t simply want to give up guns or take others’ away, calling instead for “responsible changes in our laws to require responsible gun ownership and reduce gun violence.”
The group plans to raise money to help combat the funding of the gun lobby, which Giffords and Kelly describe as, “Special interests purporting to represent gun owners but really advancing the interests of an ideological fringe” that uses money “to cow Congress into submission.”









