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Gabrielle Giffords
stated on July 1, 2013 in an op-ed in USA Today:

"In New Hampshire, 93 percent of Democrats, 79 percent of Republicans, 82 percent of gun owners and 60 percent of NRA households support background checks."

By Becky Bowers • July 8, 2013
Joe Biden
stated on June 18, 2013 in a tweet from Barack Obama's Twitter feed:

"Since Newtown, more people have died at the end of a gun than we have lost in Afghanistan."

By Jon Greenberg • June 20, 2013
Saxby Chambliss
stated on June 13, 2013 in an interview on CNN's "The Situation Room":

"The United States has never stood by and seen innocent people slaughtered to the extent that's happening in Syria."

By Louis Jacobson • June 18, 2013