Photos: Ex-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords unveils memorial to victims of gun violence at Exposition Park

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  • Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords hugs Francisco, 40, of South LA, aft helium told her helium was changeable successful the other broadside of his caput from her during the unveiling of her weapon unit memorial representing the 3,400 California residents who died successful 2020 connected Tuesday, October 19, 2021 astatine Exposition Park successful Los Angeles. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

  • Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords fist pumps weapon unit subsister LaWanda Hawkins and laminitis of Justice For Murdered Children arsenic Ruett Foster, whose lad was killed successful 1997, claps during the unveiling of Giffords’ weapon unit memorial representing the 3,400 California residents who died successful 2020 connected Tuesday, October 19, 2021 astatine Exposition Park successful Los Angeles. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

  • Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords tells weapon unit subsister LaWanda Hawkins and laminitis of Justice For Murdered Children “Fight, fight, combat everyday,” during the unveiling of Giffords’ weapon unit memorial representing the 3,400 California residents who died successful 2020 connected Tuesday, October 19, 2021 astatine Exposition Park successful Los Angeles. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

  • Assembyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer attends erstwhile Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ unveiling of her weapon unit memorial representing the 3,400 California residents who died successful 2020 connected Tuesday, October 19, 2021 astatine Exposition Park successful Los Angeles. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

  • Gun unit subsister LaWanda Hawkins and laminitis of Justice For Murdered Children speaks during the unveiling of erstwhile Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ weapon unit memorial representing the 3,400 California residents who died successful 2020 connected Tuesday, October 19, 2021 astatine Exposition Park successful Los Angeles. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

  • Flanked by Giffords Law Center Community Violence Initiative Director Paul Carrillo and erstwhile Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Francisco, 40, of South LA, reacts aft gathering Giffords and telling her helium was changeable successful the other broadside of his caput from her during the unveiling of her weapon unit memorial representing the 3,400 California residents who died successful 2020 connected Tuesday, October 19, 2021 astatine Exposition Park successful Los Angeles. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

  • Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords stands betwixt Assemblymen Jesse Gabriel and Reggie Jones-Sawyer during the unveiling of her weapon unit memorial representing the 3,400 California residents who died successful 2020 connected Tuesday, October 19, 2021 astatine Exposition Park successful Los Angeles. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

  • Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords walks done her weapon unit memorial representing the 3,400 California residents who died successful 2020 connected Tuesday, October 19, 2021 astatine Exposition Park successful Los Angeles. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

  • Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords speaks during the unveiling of her weapon unit memorial representing the 3,400 California residents who died successful 2020 connected Tuesday, October 19, 2021 astatine Exposition Park successful Los Angeles. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

  • Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer helps erstwhile Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords locomotion done her weapon unit memorial representing the 3,400 California residents who died successful 2020 connected Tuesday, October 19, 2021 astatine Exposition Park successful Los Angeles. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

  • Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords speaks during the unveiling of her weapon unit memorial representing the 3,400 California residents who died successful 2020 connected Tuesday, October 19, 2021 astatine Exposition Park successful Los Angeles. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

  • Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords speaks during the unveiling of her weapon unit memorial representing the 3,400 California residents who died successful 2020 connected Tuesday, October 19, 2021 astatine Exposition Park successful Los Angeles. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

  • Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords hugs Richard Fliegel, an subordinate dean astatine USC, astatine her weapon unit memorial representing the 3,400 California residents who died successful 2020 connected Tuesday, October 19, 2021 astatine Exposition Park successful Los Angeles. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

In 2020, 3,400 radical were killed by weapon unit successful California.

A memorial to those victims opened successful Los Angeles’ Exposition Park connected Tuesday, Oct. 19. The creation installation is portion of a nationalist crusade by ex-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., to instal memorials to retrieve lives mislaid to unit and to propulsion for stricter weapon laws.

The show features 3,400 vases. A akin memorial was installed successful Washington D.C. earlier this year, including 40,000 vases to commemorate lives mislaid to weapon unit nationwide.

The memorial successful Los Angeles volition beryllium connected show until Friday.

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