Gabrielle Giffords

Arizona law bans destroying guns purchased in buyback programs

2013-05-04 16:04:00

TUCSON — City- or county-sponsored gun buybacks — often used in larger cities to entice people to give up their handguns — have become effectively pointless in Arizona with legislation signed by Gov. Jan Brewer. The bill prohibits...

Giffords accepts Kennedy 'Profile in Courage' award

2013-05-05 17:04:00

Courage comes in many guises. In Boston on Sunday, Gabrielle Giffords was praised for having the courage just to carry on. "It’s been a hard two years for me, but I want to make the world a better place," said Giffords in receiving the 2013...

Taggants: Still a better way to track a bomber

2013-05-02 13:57:00

A number of commenters on the online version of our April 28 Op-Ed,� "A better way to track a bomber," argue against the use of taggants to trace explosives because the suspects in the Boston bombings, the Tsarnaev brothers, were identified through...

In much of the U.S. West, even moderate states balk at gun control

2013-04-21 18:54:00

HELENA, Mont. — Stephen Watt is no stranger to gun violence. In 1982, as a 26-year-old Wyoming state trooper, he stopped a fleeing bank robber who pumped five bullets into Watt before leaving him for dead on an empty stretch of highway. Watt...

Obama: Senate gun vote marks 'shameful day in Washington'

2013-04-17 16:02:00

WASHINGTON -- President Obama declared it a “shameful day for Washington” on Wednesday after the Senate defeated an effort to expand background checks for people trying to purchase guns. Standing in the White House's Rose Garden with...

Boston: News organizations' race to be first leads to stumbles

2013-04-18 10:40:00

Sports radio personality Dan Patrick often jokes that the motto of his news team is, "Fast and wrong is still fast." Too often these days that slogan could be used to describe real news organizations. The latest example came Wednesday when false reports...

Cowardly Senate runs away from gun background checks

2013-04-18 05:00:00

Polls indicate that 80% to 90% of Americans support expanded background checks for firearms sales, but on Wednesday such a plan could not get 60 votes in the United States Senate. In the White House Rose Garden, surrounded by families of children gunned...

Senate rejects gun background check measure

2013-04-17 19:34:00

WASHINGTON — Gun control advocates had told themselves this time would be different. It wasn't. The two-decade deadlock that has gripped congressional efforts to act on gun control continued Wednesday as a measure to require more gun buyers to...

Obama arrives in Boston on a mission of healing and commemoration

2013-04-18 08:22:00

BOSTON -- In a gesture of healing and commemoration, President Obama arrived on Thursday in Boston, a city still reeling from the shock of a bombing that turned a holiday into a terrorist attack. Accompanied by his wife, Michelle, the president landed...

Senate showdown set on gun control

2013-04-16 20:15:00

WASHINGTON — After four months of debate and maneuvering, the Senate headed for a showdown over gun control — a series of back-to-back votes on rival plans Wednesday afternoon that could end in the collapse of the entire effort. The...

McManus: Gun control, DOA

2013-04-03 00:00:00

President Obama pleaded with Congress last week to remember the victims of December's schoolhouse shootings in Connecticut and tighten the nation's gun laws. "Shame on us if we've forgotten," he said. "Don't get squishy." But four months after the...

Tucson shooting: 3,000 pages of sought-after records made public

2013-03-27 09:24:00

TUCSON -- More than two years after a gunman opened fire in Tucson killing six and seriously wounding former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, authorities on Wednesday released thousands of pages of records about the case that had previously been kept private....

Former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, right, and her husband Capt. Mark Kelly look back at the crowd after arriving at a ceremony awarding Giffords the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award at the JFK Library in Boston, Sunday, May 5, 2013.

2013-05-05 21:49:00

Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona received the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award at the Kennedy Library in Boston. Speaking is Giffords' husband, Mark Kelly.

2013-05-05 00:00:00

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 16: Shooting victim and former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) (2nd R) and her husband and retired astronaut Mark Kelly (R) join Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) (L) and Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill April 16, 2013 in Washington, DC.

2013-04-16 00:00:00