"Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down": AZ Rep. Survives Shooting, Fights Aphasia & Pushes for Gun Laws

President Biden is hosting an event today at the White House with victims of gun violence to mark the signing of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, and one the participating high-profile shooting survivors who will attend is former Arizona Congressmember Gabby Giffords, who survived a 2011 assassination attempt. As mass shootings continue to plague the United States, we speak to the directors of "Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down," a new documentary premiering this week that follows Giffords as she fights to recover from the 2011 attack, and her subsequent advocacy for gun safety legislation. Giffords was just honored last week with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her activism. The film follows "the fight that this woman has had to come back herself and then to come back as a public figure fighting to try to do something about the epidemic of gun violence in our country," says Julie Cohen, co-director of "Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down." Former President Barack Obama, who attempted to pass gun safety legislation with Giffords's help but failed, is featured in the documentary during a moment that qualified as "the most disappointed and the angriest he had ever been as president," adds fellow co-director Betsy West. Cohen and West also directed "My Name Is Pauli Murray" and the Academy Award-nominated "RBG."
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[@TihetrisWeathersby]

I was amazed by her recovery after being shot, She's an inspiration

[@redbaronsnoopy2346]

Truly unbelievable recovery. Never give up, Never Surrender, Gabby!

[@juaneduardoherrera1268]

We are with Gabby.

[@luke021380]

Gabby's story is very inspiring to me.

[@debi1451]

Gabby is an amazing and strong Woman!. Fight the power Girl!.

[@ryanehlis426]

No she is a lying 🤥 criminal crisis actor

[@stormchasingk9]

America: Our children die so insecure men can feel big owning a gun.

[@Linguae_Music]

I have never even heard of Gabby before... This is incredibly sad but equally inspiring. The older i get the more evil i see in this country. Its becoming more apparent every day, especially given the last few years and the rise of fascist ideation.

[@kesart8378]

Heartbreaking and soaringly inspirational.

[@Wildcard120]

A profile in courage.

[@Ianpact]

Thank you, Julie Cohen, Betsy West, Amy and DN! crew.

[@publicdomain1103]

What a remarkable woman. A real trooper.

[@NoahBodze]

Because she took a bullet? You have extremely low standards for your life.

[@bpalpha]

Its entirely shocking that she receives so little support and coverage in the media. Pitiful. Wasn’t it McCain who stopped a more aggressive background check for firearms when she tried to get improved gun laws passed?!

[@Vivienne519]

An inspirational story! What a remarkable woman who turned her dreadful experience into campaigning about gun violence and law.

[@cheri238]

I am so excited to see there will be a documentary about Gabby Gifford's story, by Betsey West. Gabby is a woman of remarkable courage. Also, if I may add I have always known what music can do for all. The brain is full of light, music flows responds to it , so let's be happy this day for Gabby, still mourn for all those that passed away that day , plus those before and since being murdered everyday by guns. Let's do all we can to fight against the NRA, adding to that list the politicians who does not do what is right. Thank you again Amy and Democracy Now. ❤️

[@davidvernon3119]

Nibbling around the edges of this problem is meaningless

[@themaker298]

Every congress person who refuses to help curb gun sales and violence needs to experience this. Exercise your 1st AND 2nd amendment rights to force the change you want to see. We cannot be held hostage and helpless while evil trumpets surround us

[@Ana-vz3uj]

Neuroplasticity is an amazing thing. You can change your brain. Whether it’s from traumatic injury or mental illness, or even just learning new skills- never underestimate your own ability to change and grow. What an inspirational story.

[@kaikai-tn4tj]

What a strong woman! If I were in her position, I don't have a confidence to make an action like her.

[@jeanhawken4482]

Wonderful brave woman. Unlike those that demand that guns in community are okay. Guns of war are never okay in community.

[@doricetimko332]

Excellent! Thank you!

[@rdreeves2332]

Support The Venus Project. We must go beyond politics poverty and war.

[@patriciarussell1177]

The problem with the story they’re forgetting about all the other people that don’t have good insurance that could never ever get the healthcare that this congresswoman can get we need to take time to think about this tooo

[@Ianpact]

Ooo, said that so much better than I did. 😁

[@akbarfarzin9857]

GOD Blessing her !!!🙏🙏🙏🙏🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲

[@realityTV77]

The poling places is what worries me in 2024🙄

[@hughjassle5876]

Why?

[@themarbleking]

Not guns?

[@MrTwenty20video]

I appreciate this content. Thank you.

[@CliqueSpace]

Silence the second.

[@Ianpact]

Not everyone can afford the cost of the recovery that Gabby was given. 😥

[@ryanehlis426]

She is a lying actor, there is no recovery just bad acting.

[@kentclark6420]

Unfortunately, the cat's out of the bag when it comes to gun control. The guns are already in circulation, millions of them on the street and in homes. Some legally, some not. Crooks can get their hands on guns regardless of restrictions. Even assault guns. That isn't to say that an assault gun ban wouldn't help. It might make it harder for future assailants to get them. More enforcement, involving allowing home searches of suspected insane people who have made threats to shoot others, like school kids, is what is needed. Parents need to be held responsible for their kids, too. Don't let them get or have guns. And don't give them guns!

[@sherrillwhately7586]

Gabby’s offices were just down the street from where I live in Tucson.

[@patriciarussell1177]

I think KZbin is auditing me

[@fatemehnayebisaghafi7656]

God blessed her ❤

[@Don-md6wn]

By allowing her to get shot?

[@themarbleking]

If that’s a blessing I would rather be cursed! Everyday I thank god that I don’t live in America.

[@myresponsesarelimited7895]

Seriously- what makes someone do that? ...what happens in someone's upbringing, or life that makes someone lash out so callously, and spiteful 😳 ...some might say culture? ...some might say the gradual slide of social responsibility? ...I keep gravitating towards bullying as a major cause, but I'm sure the issues are nuanced, and many. What do think? 🤔 ....

[@bayersbluebayoubioweapon8477]

Was just mentioning her to a friend last night.

[@themarbleking]

Before she was shot, was she for guns - or against them? If she wasn’t? That’s so sad! But if she was? Hah ha!

[@JonPais]

MAGA TOOL!!!

[@akbarfarzin9857]

GUNS belongs to police officers 👮‍♂️ and military!!!! NO Excuses!!! If you are good person and Following the LAWS !!!!!

[@TheBlackPaulMuadDib]

This comment is the reason why the US has turned to shit.

[@gaim44]

@@TheBlackPaulMuadDib Yes your comment is the reason US has turned to shit thank you.

[@jhegre]

@@TheBlackPaulMuadDib No, you are.

[@kathryncasey4114]

I don't even get parking tickets. I like following the rules. I have always been more afraid of police than any other type of criminal. Have you been hiding from the news?

[@shawnchurch316]

I do not depend on anyone to protect my life.

[@tonicalloway7227]

Firearms?..is that still a thing?..cause im seeing people with knives now..

[@themarbleking]

Yeah, all those school mass stabbings have killed hundreds! Yeah right! Wanker.

[@thomassciaroni6942]

is this Kool-Aid??

[@sherrillwhately7586]

Arizona Senator Mark Kelly doesn’t take corporate pac money.

[@marilynaugustine1913]

V,

[@spearfisherman308]

So are you going to retract your defund the police statements, until then you are a hypocrite

[@TheBlackPaulMuadDib]

This story is only for ad revenue, bottom line.

[@SuperTonyony]

You mean NRA ads?

[@wavelength7503]

@@SuperTonyony Typical Merica, make a movie, give out medals, as the politicians,and elites praise how much is getting done about gun violence, A COMPLETE JOKE. As you all sell yourselves how wonderful you are in the movies. Not hard to con an US citizen, just make a movie and create a hero. The only thing I still see is children being gunned down. But hey! aren't trailers wonderful to sell the" dream". Let's chant the mantras "Hearts & prayers, support the troops , were # 1". From a country who has struck gun control, and political leaders who choose what their nation wants. Not a bunch of Hollywood glamour seekers.

[@kathryncasey4114]

I have never seen an advertisement before, during or after a Democracy Now video.

[@wavelength7503]

@@kathryncasey4114 neo liberals don't see adds, because they are done in a specific way, that makes you feel good. Whether it's getting an author who fits the moment, and wants a place to sell their books.. or a movie documentary to sell propaganda. I'm sure the NRA are all on board with this documentary. Making Merican heroes out of gun culture, a miraculous recovery, that only an American woman can achieve, Yata Yata Yata. It was documented for neoliberal and neoconservatives like yourselves who believe anything that the movie industry will sell you. Your reality bis Hollywood.

[@TheBlackPaulMuadDib]

Believe me they are getting ad dollars for viewership from google.

[@caseycreason8804]

She can do whatever she wants. But other people will do what they think needs to be done. It's long past time that liberals pull there headed out of the collective rectal cavity. We tried it their way look at Chicago. Let's give every adult it has not been convicted of a crime. Easy access to the right to carry.

[@hughjassle5876]

Maybe it's her head wound, but I have a tough time reconciling her incoherence of wanting gun control on the premise of saving lives while arguing to continue the genocide that has already claimed the lives of 63 million children in the womb.

[@gtaylor2024]

Mark Kelly put that hit out on Gabby. Yes, you heard me right... Mark Kelly, her astronaut husband. Pure evil.

[@jhegre]

Whatever you feel Qbert

[@gtaylor2024]

@@jhegre no feelings about it, blind man

[@jhegre]

@@gtaylor2024 You are all feelings Qbert! No brains, all feelings!

[@Don-md6wn]

@@gtaylor2024 Somebody should put out a hit on you for that libelous comment.

[@danoc51]

If Kelly did put the hit out on Gabby, what was his motivation? If he disliked her enough to do so, how does one explain the unfailing love and devotion he has shown her since the shooting?

[@dictorfeelgood]

🥱🥱🥱🥱that does the absolute least he can