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Shot lawmaker feeling safe enough to host Safeway town hall

Posted by Nate Hoffman on June 5, 2014

The congressman who survived the infamous 2011 shooting at an Arizona supermarket town hall-style event has scheduled a town hall at another supermarket.

The Saturday event at a Sierra Vista Safeway represents the second time that Rep. Ron Barber (D-Ariz.) has hosted a Congress on Your Corner event this year. The first was in January in Sahuarita, Ariz.

On Jan. 8, 2011, Barber and 18 others, including his then-boss Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz), were shot at another Congress on Your Corner event at another Safeway store in Tucson. Giffords, who was critically wounded and suffered severe brain damage, was believed to be the main target of the shooter. Six people were killed in the shooting spree.

Barber, who was shot in the face and thigh, won a special election to finish out Giffords' term.