Chris Harris
@chrisharriskc.bsky.social
VP, Communications, @GIFFORDS | KC native. Mahomes scholar. Music curmudgeon.
20 years ago this week, Congress gave the gun industry the biggest special interest giveaway in the history of the United States. giffords.org/analysis/how...
How 20 Years of Gun Industry Immunity Has Made Gun Crime Worse
The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) has fueled corporate recklessness and allowed gun violence to fester for two decades.
giffords.org
October 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
20 years ago this week, Congress gave the gun industry the biggest special interest giveaway in the history of the United States. giffords.org/analysis/how...
I’ve heard about a politician—I won’t name names—who periodically assembles every single one of his senior advisors around a giant table and makes them all, one by one, heap praise and flattery on him while cameras capture the entire degrading exercise
October 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I’ve heard about a politician—I won’t name names—who periodically assembles every single one of his senior advisors around a giant table and makes them all, one by one, heap praise and flattery on him while cameras capture the entire degrading exercise
This tragic weekend underscores the need to keep guns away from unhinged violent extremists of any stripe.
But this Congress/Administration won't lift a finger because they care more about enriching their gun industry CEO campaign donors than stopping gun attacks.
But this Congress/Administration won't lift a finger because they care more about enriching their gun industry CEO campaign donors than stopping gun attacks.
September 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This tragic weekend underscores the need to keep guns away from unhinged violent extremists of any stripe.
But this Congress/Administration won't lift a finger because they care more about enriching their gun industry CEO campaign donors than stopping gun attacks.
But this Congress/Administration won't lift a finger because they care more about enriching their gun industry CEO campaign donors than stopping gun attacks.
someone do a study on the number of meetings pre vs post COVID
September 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
someone do a study on the number of meetings pre vs post COVID
"13-year-old boy with 'school shooter ideations' found with collection of guns, 'mass shooting' writings: Sheriff"
A 13 year old had all of this. The greedy gun lobby will tell you nothing needs to change—they just see dollar signs.
abcnews.go.com/US/boy-schoo...
A 13 year old had all of this. The greedy gun lobby will tell you nothing needs to change—they just see dollar signs.
abcnews.go.com/US/boy-schoo...
September 9, 2025 at 12:54 PM
"13-year-old boy with 'school shooter ideations' found with collection of guns, 'mass shooting' writings: Sheriff"
A 13 year old had all of this. The greedy gun lobby will tell you nothing needs to change—they just see dollar signs.
abcnews.go.com/US/boy-schoo...
A 13 year old had all of this. The greedy gun lobby will tell you nothing needs to change—they just see dollar signs.
abcnews.go.com/US/boy-schoo...
online influencers get paid??!! No way. Next you'll try to tell me wrestling is fake.
August 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM
online influencers get paid??!! No way. Next you'll try to tell me wrestling is fake.
Of everything Gen Z has done, routinely wearing the shirt of the band whose concert you’re at is the most upsetting
August 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Of everything Gen Z has done, routinely wearing the shirt of the band whose concert you’re at is the most upsetting
Pro-gun Bearing Arms makes the perfect argument for mandatory background checks on secondary market sales & safe storage laws (to reduce gun theft).
July 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Pro-gun Bearing Arms makes the perfect argument for mandatory background checks on secondary market sales & safe storage laws (to reduce gun theft).
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Join us for the People’s Town Hall in Michigan’s 10th Congressional District with Congresswoman @gabbygiffords.bsky.social and US Sen. @captmarkkelly.bsky.social on Friday, July 25 to tell us how you've been impacted by Republicans’ dangerous agenda. Sign up to attend. michigandems.com/CD10TownHall
July 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Join us for the People’s Town Hall in Michigan’s 10th Congressional District with Congresswoman @gabbygiffords.bsky.social and US Sen. @captmarkkelly.bsky.social on Friday, July 25 to tell us how you've been impacted by Republicans’ dangerous agenda. Sign up to attend. michigandems.com/CD10TownHall
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Shouldn’t the NY Times headline note that this new policy breaks the law?
June 19, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Shouldn’t the NY Times headline note that this new policy breaks the law?
Gabby Giffords responds to Minnesota killings with pleas for reform and peace
www.postandcourier.com/politics/gab...
www.postandcourier.com/politics/gab...
Gabby Giffords responds to Minnesota killings with pleas for reform and peace
U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Arizona, criticized President Donald Trump for deepening the nation’s divisions and failing to lead after the targeted shootings of two state lawmakers in Minnesota.
www.postandcourier.com
June 18, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Gabby Giffords responds to Minnesota killings with pleas for reform and peace
www.postandcourier.com/politics/gab...
www.postandcourier.com/politics/gab...
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1) Chattel slavery was evil, full stop.
2) Not every person on the Confederate side has to be "evil" for the defense of slavery to deserve categorization as such.
3) Treason in the defense of slavery is without honor, and deserves no honor — because treason _period_ deserves no honor.
2) Not every person on the Confederate side has to be "evil" for the defense of slavery to deserve categorization as such.
3) Treason in the defense of slavery is without honor, and deserves no honor — because treason _period_ deserves no honor.
JD Vance: “I feel like something happened like 10 years ago where every, it’s like you have to think that every single person that who fought for the Confederate side was an evil person. I just think that’s so stupid.”
June 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
1) Chattel slavery was evil, full stop.
2) Not every person on the Confederate side has to be "evil" for the defense of slavery to deserve categorization as such.
3) Treason in the defense of slavery is without honor, and deserves no honor — because treason _period_ deserves no honor.
2) Not every person on the Confederate side has to be "evil" for the defense of slavery to deserve categorization as such.
3) Treason in the defense of slavery is without honor, and deserves no honor — because treason _period_ deserves no honor.
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NEW:
Buyer With Ties to Chinese Communist Party Got V.I.P. Treatment at Trump Crypto Dinner
The warm welcome for a technology executive whose purchases of the $TRUMP coin won him a White House tour illustrates inconsistencies in Trump's views toward visitors from China
nyti.ms/4mUDTtG
Buyer With Ties to Chinese Communist Party Got V.I.P. Treatment at Trump Crypto Dinner
The warm welcome for a technology executive whose purchases of the $TRUMP coin won him a White House tour illustrates inconsistencies in Trump's views toward visitors from China
nyti.ms/4mUDTtG
Buyer With Ties to Chinese Communist Party Got V.I.P. Treatment at Trump Crypto Dinner (Gift Article)
The warm welcome for a technology executive whose purchases of the president’s digital coin won him a White House tour illustrates inconsistencies in the administration’s views toward visitors from Ch...
nyti.ms
June 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
NEW:
Buyer With Ties to Chinese Communist Party Got V.I.P. Treatment at Trump Crypto Dinner
The warm welcome for a technology executive whose purchases of the $TRUMP coin won him a White House tour illustrates inconsistencies in Trump's views toward visitors from China
nyti.ms/4mUDTtG
Buyer With Ties to Chinese Communist Party Got V.I.P. Treatment at Trump Crypto Dinner
The warm welcome for a technology executive whose purchases of the $TRUMP coin won him a White House tour illustrates inconsistencies in Trump's views toward visitors from China
nyti.ms/4mUDTtG
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NEW: Battleground voters—including Trump supporters—strongly reject GOP efforts to make gun silencers easier to get.
Silencers make shootings deadlier, and voters know it.
Silencers make shootings deadlier, and voters know it.
Voters oppose selling silencers without background checks in Trump’s “big, beautiful bill”
WASHINGTON — GIFFORDS, the national gun violence prevention organization founded by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, released new poll data on
giffords.org
June 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
NEW: Battleground voters—including Trump supporters—strongly reject GOP efforts to make gun silencers easier to get.
Silencers make shootings deadlier, and voters know it.
Silencers make shootings deadlier, and voters know it.
🚨 “GIFFORDS has a new poll from Senate battleground states showing that GOP efforts to make gun silencers more easily available is deeply unpopular…large majorities of voters — including voters for President Donald Trump — don’t want to see that happen”
NEWS: Speaker Mike Johnson has hired the general counsel for the Senate Banking Committee as his top lawyer. Plus, Rep. Elise Stefanik is launching a new PAC in New York to support GOP candidates across the state.
More news from AM—
punchbowl.news/article/wash...
More news from AM—
punchbowl.news/article/wash...
Mike Johnson has a new general counsel, plus more news
Speaker Mike Johnson has hired the general counsel for the Senate Banking Committee as his top lawyer.
punchbowl.news
June 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🚨 “GIFFORDS has a new poll from Senate battleground states showing that GOP efforts to make gun silencers more easily available is deeply unpopular…large majorities of voters — including voters for President Donald Trump — don’t want to see that happen”
In a filing late last week, Trump's DOJ said silencers are "specially adaptable to criminal misuse."
Meanwhile, Trump & Hill R's are fighting to eliminate mandatory background checks for them.
Meanwhile, Trump & Hill R's are fighting to eliminate mandatory background checks for them.
May 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
In a filing late last week, Trump's DOJ said silencers are "specially adaptable to criminal misuse."
Meanwhile, Trump & Hill R's are fighting to eliminate mandatory background checks for them.
Meanwhile, Trump & Hill R's are fighting to eliminate mandatory background checks for them.
Donald Trump is making the gun industry a lot of money by helping murderers kill more people
Exclusive: The Trump Adm. has decided to permit the sale of "forced reset trigger" devices that enable regular firearms to fire like machine guns, a move that one person familiar with the matter said was “by far the most dangerous thing this administration has done” on gun policy.
May 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Donald Trump is making the gun industry a lot of money by helping murderers kill more people
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NEWS: After being pressed on her decision to cut $1B from school mental health programs that have bipartisan support, Secretary McMahon accepts@gabbygiffords.bsky.social invitation to meet with school shooting survivors & families.
We hope she follows through and are eager to facilitate.
We hope she follows through and are eager to facilitate.
May 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
NEWS: After being pressed on her decision to cut $1B from school mental health programs that have bipartisan support, Secretary McMahon accepts@gabbygiffords.bsky.social invitation to meet with school shooting survivors & families.
We hope she follows through and are eager to facilitate.
We hope she follows through and are eager to facilitate.
.@gabbygiffords.bsky.social wrote to Education Sec. Linda McMahon about the $1B she cut from a school mental health program with broad bipartisan support, asked her to meet with survivors of school shootings.
May 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
.@gabbygiffords.bsky.social wrote to Education Sec. Linda McMahon about the $1B she cut from a school mental health program with broad bipartisan support, asked her to meet with survivors of school shootings.
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Updating my data - here is the total value of the most serious alleged direct benefits to past presidents or family members as compiled by o3 with the $400M plane added. No comparison.
May 12, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Updating my data - here is the total value of the most serious alleged direct benefits to past presidents or family members as compiled by o3 with the $400M plane added. No comparison.
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People are out there using 16 ounces of water to generate an image of a blue sky when they could just open the window (and drink the water)
May 12, 2025 at 12:11 AM
People are out there using 16 ounces of water to generate an image of a blue sky when they could just open the window (and drink the water)
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Our president claims that America’s gun violence crisis is a mental health issue, and then slashed ONE BILLION DOLLARS in school mental health resources.
@gabbygiffords.bsky.social was on the hill today urging members of Congress to stand against this dangerous agenda.
@gabbygiffords.bsky.social was on the hill today urging members of Congress to stand against this dangerous agenda.
May 7, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Our president claims that America’s gun violence crisis is a mental health issue, and then slashed ONE BILLION DOLLARS in school mental health resources.
@gabbygiffords.bsky.social was on the hill today urging members of Congress to stand against this dangerous agenda.
@gabbygiffords.bsky.social was on the hill today urging members of Congress to stand against this dangerous agenda.
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I don’t think we talk enough about the fact that Pete Hegseth doesn’t believe in the germ theory of disease and consequently doesn’t wash after he wipes www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
Fox host says he 'hasn't washed hands in 10 years'
Harvard and Princeton graduate Pete Hegseth says germs don't exist because he can't see them.
www.bbc.com
April 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I don’t think we talk enough about the fact that Pete Hegseth doesn’t believe in the germ theory of disease and consequently doesn’t wash after he wipes www.bbc.com/news/world-u...