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| Gabby Giffords |
"No. Better," she said in the interview broadcast on Monday night when asked if she would return to Congress. When she asked with a gesture to help formulate, her husband added: "She wants that he is better."
Had been the deputy from Arizona in early August when the critical vote on the debt ceiling seemed surprising for a vote in the House of Representatives, is speculation about their future plans. Among others, there is speculation as to whether she is running for the open Senate seat of their state.
Before the interview were broadcast videos in which Kelly documents the arduous health and progress of his wife not even desperate moments spares.
On their way back to life both have written with the help of a professional book: "Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope" (A story of courage and hope). In the television interview to describe the couple to each other as "brave" and "tough".
Fellow recruit for sharper weapons law
The fate of Gabrielle "Gabby" Giffords moved the Americans. An apparently mentally ill assassin had the politician on 8 January at a civil meeting in front of a shopping center in Tucson at close range shot in the head and critically wounded. Six people were killed and 13 others injured.
The attack was in the U.S. debate over gun ownership and use flare up again. Many Americans hold up their constitutional right to bear arms, while opponents point out that are to be deplored in U.S. states, providing free movement Waffenrecht more deaths.
The interview in the show "20/20" aired at a time, as other victims of the attack came to Washington to lobby for tougher gun laws. Around a dozen survivors and family members called for a law with the aim to verify all purchases of firearms to customers on a possible criminal background and improve the quality of such audits.
"No, no, no. Life. Life"
Gifford's television appearance signified a milestone for them, and help to cope with the trauma, said fellow sufferers. "Concerns Whenever one of us has a success, and helps heal us all," said Ken Dorushka, who was then shot in the arm as he defended his wife.
TV host Diane Sawyer asked Giffords in the interview if she was ever angry about what happened to her. "No, no, no. Life. Life," she replied.
The aggregate in the assassination shooter Jared Loughner has been declared not guilty in 49 counts. He sits in custody and will be forcibly treated with antipsychotic drugs with the aim to make him fit to stand trial.
Giffords and her husband brought into the interview, both expressed their concern that Loughner did not get the help he needed.
"If he would have received any treatment, that would probably never happen," Kelly said.
