{"id":51670,"date":"2012-01-09T14:13:37","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T19:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=51670"},"modified":"2012-01-09T21:26:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T02:26:27","slug":"one-year-anniversary-gabrielle-giffords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/one-year-anniversary-gabrielle-giffords\/","title":{"rendered":"One-year anniversary: Gabrielle Giffords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"437\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OITGAbQG1WU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Note: the video is a montage set to the song &#8220;I&#8217;d Take Away the Guns&#8221; by Cheryl Wheeler; not footage of shooting. &#8211; amanda<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you watched the news at all yesterday (I missed it, myself), you know that Jan. 8, 2012 was the one-year anniversary of the mass shooting in Tucson, AZ that left six people dead and 13 wounded, including U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords, who has been undergoing extensive physical and speech therapy, was able to climb the stairs of an outdoor stage at the University of Arizona, walk with assistance, and lead the Pledge of Allegiance for a memorial service commemorating the event yesterday. Jared Loughner, the mentally ill young man who committed the shooting, had been determined unfit to stand trial and is since being medicated in a Missouri prison facility in an effort to make him mentally ready for trial.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, a week after the shootings, Eric covered the charts for the incident plus the natal charts for Giffords and Loughner in a premium subscriber issue titled, <a href=\"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/astrologynews\/1266789779.html\"><strong>Beneath the Guns and Politics, Gender Rage<\/strong><\/a>. In part, it&#8217;s an especially fascinating case study of the roles that the centaur planets can play, as well as Eris and Mars (two planets highlighted in today&#8217;s Full Moon configuration). Even more uncanny are the astrological connections, in the case of these two people, between perpetrator and victim.<\/p>\n<p>One important question raised by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/\"><strong>Democracy Now!<\/strong><\/a> in light of this anniversary is: In the wake of calls for more thorough background checks and better handgun regulation after last year&#8217;s shooting, what exactly has changed? The infuriating answer is actually worse than &#8216;not much&#8217;. Apparently, if anything, it has gotten <em>easier<\/em> for someone to purchase a gun in the U.S. The rush transcript was not yet available at the time of this posting, but you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2012\/1\/9\/as_arizona_remembers_tucson_shooting_virginia\">watch the segment of today&#8217;s show here<\/a>, which features an interview with Colin Goddard. He is a survivor of the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting that left 32 people dead, and has since worked tirelessly for gun control. He tells Amy Goodman, &#8220;I think a lot of Americans already think that we do background checks on everybody and are surprised to learn that we don\u2019t \u2026 at the minimum we should be doing a background check.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Personally, I think I&#8217;m with Cheryl Wheeler in the video above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: the video is a montage set to the song &#8220;I&#8217;d Take Away the Guns&#8221; by Cheryl Wheeler; not footage of shooting. &#8211; amanda If you watched the news at all yesterday (I missed it, myself), you know that Jan. 8, 2012 was the one-year anniversary of the mass shooting in Tucson, AZ that left &#8230; <a title=\"One-year anniversary: Gabrielle Giffords\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/one-year-anniversary-gabrielle-giffords\/\" aria-label=\"More on One-year anniversary: Gabrielle Giffords\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}