Giffords met earlier this week with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to discuss gun control, a topic that the three-term mayor has pressed on the national stage, urging tighter restrictions on high-capacity magazines and assault rifles.
Becoming mindful of how money moves out of (and into) your pockets is the key to keeping your finances under control and is the foundation for budgeting, but that's a topic for another column.
Well, in fact this is a very purposeful, planned and clever strategy on the part of the anti-fracking industry to try and control the discussion by controlling the meaning of the primary term used in referring to the topic.
The recent national tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School has brought the topic of aggression and gun violence in our schools back to the painful front lines of the national debate on gun control.