Citing gun violence, Gabby Giffords' trauma surgeon enters race for her old House seat
Source: Politico
By ALLY MUTNICK
03/25/2021 09:06 AM EDT
Updated: 03/25/2021 10:33 AM EDT
Randy Friese, the trauma surgeon who a decade ago treated Gabby Giffords after she was shot in the head, launched a run for Congress on Thursday — a year into a global pandemic and amid a flurry of mass shootings that have revived a national debate over gun laws.
Friese, who has served in Arizona’s state Legislature since 2015, hopes to succeed Democratic Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, who is retiring next year from a southeastern Arizona district. He is friendly with Giffords and her husband, Sen. Mark Kelly, and plans to make his support for gun safety legislation a key theme of his run.
“It's part of who I am, what I do,” Friese said in an interview. “I'm a trauma surgeon. I take care of people who have been shot at. I've told a mother that their child has died. I told a wife that their husband is paralyzed.”
“It will be a part of the campaign,” he added. “And I think, serendipitously, Congress is feeling some pressure to address this issue now.”
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