Gabby: We're all used to hearing people say patience is a virtue. I think about patience every day..

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Ben LaBolt ?@BenLaBolt 6h
Powerful piece from Gabby Giffords calling for quick passage of universal background checks http://nydn.us/17kkjfk


Join the fight for safer U.S.
We must make pols hear our nation's cry: Pass tougher laws for guns purchases NOW!

By Gabrielle Giffords / FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

We're all used to hearing people say that patience is a virtue.

I think about patience every day as I continue to regain my speech and the mobility I lost after I was shot in the head two years ago, while meeting with my constituents in the parking lot of grocery store in my district.

I think about patience and determination, because I still wake up every day wanting to make the world a better place.

But lately I’m not feeling too patient toward senators and representatives who are listening to the misinformation that’s out there about universal background checks instead of to their constituents, and saying they may not support common sense solutions to ending gun violence.

What are they waiting for . . . ?

read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/gabby-giffords-calls-gun-laws-article-1.1309920


March issue of Vogue shows former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (left) with her husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, during a photo shoot at their home in Tucson, Ariz. (Norman Jean Roy/AP)

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1. For Gabby and all the victims past and future

of US gun violence.

thanks bigtree

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2. Amazing woman,

Standing up for the victims of gun violence.

Thanks, bigtree.

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