PAT MAISCH: I’m not able to get the gun because it’s too far away, but I am able to get the magazine that he’s pulling out of his pocket.ĮMERGENCY DISPATCH: Customers have tackled the suspect. He dropped the high-capacity magazine, was tackled, and dropped the gun.
I’m thinking, “I wonder what it’s going to feel like, how bad it’s going to hurt if he shoots me.” PAT MAISCH: I could see him advancing quickly. There were 33 wounds from 33 bullets, so it looks like every bullet hit a person.ĩ11 OPERATOR: 911, what is your emergency?ĬALLER: The guy had a semi-automatic pistol!ĬALLER: He went and started firing, and then he ran. MARK KELLY: Emptied the magazine in 15 seconds. PAT MAISCH: There was a bang, and then a slight pause, and then a continuous bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. He had a 9-millimeter Glock in his hand and a 33-round magazine in it. He shot Gabby from about three feet away, right in the middle of the left side of her forehead. That was the last picture taken of her before she was- before she was shot. MARK KELLY, Gabrielle Giffords’s Husband: Her first person she met with was a young man that was in the Army Reserve. PAT MAISCH: I went to thank her for her being kind of a Blue Dog Democrat and really working for the people and not for the lobbyists. NARRATOR: Forty-year old Arizona congresswoman Gabby Giffords was about to meet constituents at an outdoor shopping center. PAT MAISCH, Shooting Survivor: In Tucson, it was a beautiful crisp, clear blue sky with a few puffy white clouds. JOHN AQUILINO: It has nothing to do with guns, it has to do with freedom.ĪNNOUNCER: Tonight’s program contains mature content which may not be suitable for all audiences. JOHN AQUILINO, Former NRA Spokesman: The government is not supposed to tell you what to do.ĪNNOUNCER: All the while, the gun lobby grows stronger.ĬHARLTON HESTON, NRA President: -from my cold, dead hands!ĪNNOUNCER: Tonight, FRONTLINE takes you inside the politics and the power of the NRA. BARACK OBAMA: We have been through this too many times.ĪNNOUNCER: And then legislation voted down. ANNOUNCER: Once again, innocent victims gunned down.
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