Gabby Giffords was “always the adventurer”
Gabby Giffords grew up around horses.
She loved to ride and competed in hunter-jumper competitions.
She pursued her master’s degree at Cornell University and picked up a job in New York.
She chose to return to Arizona to run her family’s business a chain of discount tire stores.
She says she learned to read legislation by reading a tire: by identifying its weak spots.
She then ran for the Arizona Senate in 2002.
She was keen on border security and curbing violence linked to drug trafficking.
The issues were personal to Giffords her district shares a 100-mile border with Mexico.
She fought for small business tax relief and was a supporter of the Affordable Care Act.
But she still struggles with aphasia, which makes it difficult for her to speak and form words.
Reading is a challenge too because she lost 50 percent of peripheral vision in hereyes.
Gabby Giffords hasn’t stopped campaigning for change, either.
The group has a big dream.
Push the NRA into the margins of American society where they belong."
