The Senate Judiciary Committee has begun a hearing on curbing gun violence, an issue that has taken on added urgency since last month's mass shootings at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. Former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was wounded in a January 2011 shooting in Tucson, Arizona, opened the hearing by saying, "This is an important conversation ... Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. We must do something, it will be hard, but the time is ...
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