Gabrielle Dee “Gabby” Giffords is an American former politician and gun violence prevention advocate. She represented Arizona’s 8th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2007 until January 2012, when she resigned because of a severe brain injury.

In January 2011, Giffords was shot in the head during an attack at a constituent meeting near Tucson, Arizona. Six people were killed in the shooting. In 2013, she and her husband, Mark Kelly, founded Americans for Responsible Solutions, a political action committee that campaigned for gun-control measures.

After the shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, Giffords said she was heartbroken and called on leaders at every level to act.