Giffords shooting: What's changed and what hasn't
TUCSON, Ariz. — Five months ago, Jacquelyn Jackson pulled in to a parking space six places away from the entrance of the Safeway north of Tucson where she had gone shopping Jan. 8, 2011.
She thought she could face down her memories and park a little closer to the store. But Jackson felt her heart beating as she pulled in two spaces over from where she had parked on the day several of her friends were shot, the day one of her friends died.
She sat in the car, doing breathing exercises to calm herself, until she gave up and drove to the far side of the shopping-cart return, the parking-lot demarcation that today offers her a sense of safety.
Jackson, who had once worked in U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' office, was feet away as Jared Loughner, a mentally ill man from Tucson, opened fire with a Glock 19 9mm pistol with a 33-round extended magazine three years ago.
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