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Former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords ’93 condemned the Kansas shooting of Ralph Yarl for its “violence and injustice,” the Huffington Post reported. “As someone who is still recovering from a gunshot to the head, I am heartbroken and infuriated that Ralph Yarl now faces a lifetime of recovery,” Giffords said in a tweet. ” . . . We cannot continue to be a nation defined by gun violence and injustice.”