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Police remove Tucson shooting hero from Senate after background check vote
A hero of the 2011 Tucson, Arizona shooting was escorted out of the Capitol on Wednesday after she shouted at lawmakers. “Shame on you!” Patricia Maisch and Lori Haas yelled after the Senate rejected an amendment to gun legislation that would have required background checks for firearm sales at gun…
Tucson shooting survivor heartened by Obama’s gun plan: ‘Now is the time’
Two years ago Patricia Maisch gained first-hand experience of America’s epidemic of gun violence. She was attending a street rally called by Tucson politician Gabby Giffords when shooting erupted, and she helped disarm the gunman by grabbing his second magazine thus preventing him from reloading. Unharmed in the incident that…
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