Gabby Giffords to visit Newtown

Former US Representative Gabrielle Giffords will visit Newtown, Conn., the site of last month's deadly shooting in which 20 first graders were killed. Giffords survived a mass shooting in her home state of Arizona two years ago

By Dan Burns,?Reuters / January 3, 2013

A parent greets her child as she got off a school bus returning from the new Sandy Hook School in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, January 3. Former US Representative Gabrielle Giffords will visit Newtown, the town were the Sandy Hook School shooting took place in December.

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Former U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who survived a mass shooting in her?Arizona?district two years ago, plans to visit?Newtown,?Connecticut, the site of last month's deadly elementary school massacre, the?Connecticut?lieutenant governor's office said Thursday.

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Giffords plans to attend a private event at a local home on Friday, Steven Jensen, spokesman for Lieutenant Governor Nancy Wyman, said in an email. The event will have no media access and Giffords' plans are still developing and may change.

Giffords retired from?Congress?last year to focus on her recovery from the January 2011 shooting in?Tucson?that left six dead and 12 others wounded.

Giffords, shot in the head in the attack, has become a symbol for proponents of stricter gun control in the national debate about the right to bear arms, which has grown louder since the Dec. 14 attack in?Newtown.

Giffords' planned visit would be three weeks to the day since 20-year-old?Adam Lanza?burst into Sandy Hook Elementary School in rural?Newtown, about 70 miles northeast of New York City, and killed 20 first graders and six school staff members.

Before the attack, Lanza killed his mother,?Nancy Lanza, in their home about 5 miles from the school. Lanza took his own life as police arrived at the Sandy Hook school.

On Thursday, the more than 400 children who escaped without physical harm returned to school for the first time since the assault.

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