CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN : White House mum about guns on Giffords anniversary. “For more than a decade, Democratic officials have sidelined numerous calls by allied activist groups for new curbs on guns. The shift followed the Democrats’ defeat in the 2000 presidential election, when gun-rights activists helped Vice-President Al Gore lose his home state of Tennessee to then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush.”

UPDATE: Prof. Jacobson: Remembering The Giffords Shooting, And The Reaction. And here are my thoughts from last year.