Gabrielle Giffords

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Gabrielle Giffords (born June 8th, 1970) is an American politician who has served as a Democratic Representative for Arizona in the lower house of the U.S. Congress since 2007. She is a proponent of the rights of gun owners. On January 8th, 2011, she was shot in the head by a gunman using a legally-purchased firearm. The incident, which claimed the lives of six people, occurred as Giffords met her constituents near Tucson, Arizona.