Former Rep. Gabby Giffords launched a new bipartisan campaign Wednesday to highlight gun violence against women

Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ)

Former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.) launched a new bipartisan campaign Wednesday to highlight gun violence against women and promote policy changes in Congress.

“We don’t have to agree about everything, but we can agree on this,” Giffords said. “Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.”

Giffords was nearly killed in Tucson, Arizona when a shooter opened fire and shot her in the head back in 2011.

The campaign, called the Women’s Coalition for Common Sense, pushes for stricter gun control laws to keep guns out of the hands of potentially dangerous people, including stalkers and domestic abusers.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a woman in the United States is 11 times more likely to be killed by a gun than women in other developed countries.

“We can change our laws. We can fight for responsible solutions,” Giffords said to the audience. “Together, we can make women and their families safer.”

Joining Giffords in the campaign are officials and representatives from both political parties, including former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman (R).

The effort to push back on gun violence comes as the number of mass shootings is at an all time high in the country, with 1001 occurrences reported since 2013, according to the Washington Post.

Republican opposition to tougher gun laws and Democratic approval of them has made for a tense discussion in Congress, but the string of gun violence has propelled the issue onto the presidential campaign stage.

During Tuesday’s democratic primary debate, presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton said she believed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) wasn’t tough enough on the subject of gun violence when it came to his vote against the Brady Bill, a provision of that requires a waiting period for handgun purchases and background checks.

“We have to look at the fact that we lose 90 people a day from gun violence,” Clinton said. “This has gone on too long, and it’s time the entire country stood up against the NRA.”