After Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) was nearly killed in a January shooting spree, talk of a “new tone” was all over Congress as lawmakers from both parties hoped the traumatic event would calm America’s increasingly violent rhetoric. Instead, Giffords returned on Monday to find things as bad as ever.
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