{"id":24719,"date":"2013-01-31T02:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T01:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/susie-madrak\/gabby-giffords-testifies-time-now-con"},"modified":"2013-01-31T02:00:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T01:00:27","slug":"gabby-giffords-testifies-the-time-is-now-to-control-guns-meanwhile-another-mass-shooting-takes-place-in-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/gabby-giffords-testifies-the-time-is-now-to-control-guns-meanwhile-another-mass-shooting-takes-place-in-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabby Giffords Testifies: ‘The Time Is Now’ To Control Guns. Meanwhile, Another Mass Shooting Takes Place in Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Powerful moment at today’s Senate hearing on gun violence:<\/a><\/p>\n

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In remarks kicking off today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence, former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., made a defiant call for Congress to “be bold” and “act” on gun violence.<\/p>\n

“Too many children are dying,” she said. “We must do something.”<\/p>\n

Giffords, who survived a gunshot to the head two years ago during an assassination attempt that left six people dead, read slowly but forcefully from prepared remarks, and acknowledged that “speaking is difficult.”<\/p>\n

“But I need to say something important. Violence is a big problem,” she said. “It will be hard. But the time is now. You must act. Be bold. Be courageous. Americans are counting on you.<\/strong>“<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, while the Senate listened to testimony, there was another mass shooting<\/a> at a Phoenix, Arizona office complex. One person was killed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Powerful moment at today’s Senate hearing on gun violence:<\/p>\n

In remarks kicking off today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence, former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., made a defiant call for Congress to “be bold” and “act” on gun vio…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}