When Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot, a federal judge killed along with five others, and fifteen other people wounded in a shooting spree in
Tucson, Arizona, in January 2011, the National Rifle Association (NRA) and its allies in Congress and the media immediately blamed the shooting on the "gun-free zone" at the Safeway supermarket where Giffords was shot.

The NRA and its allies in Congress and the media immediately blamed