Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot at a Tucson event Saturday morning; five others have been reportedly killed.
Arizona state Sen. Linda Lopez, who is at University Medical Center in Tucson, said she spoke to Giffords’ parents and that they said she is in the emergency room undergoing surgery and is in very serious condition…
At least four people are dead, University Medical Center spokesman Darci Slaten said. They were among five to seven people who were being treated.
The NBC affilliate in Tucson reports that the FBI has taken over the investigation…
Giffords, 40, a Democrat, serves the 8th Congressional District…
Giffords was re-elected to her third term last November. She was a member of the Arizona House and Senate before coming to Washington.
She first won election to Congress amid a wave of Democratic victories in 2006. In November, she edged a tea party favorite.
There never is a shortage of violent, ignorant thugs in this land who fervently believe they can enforce their political will by force of arms.
Sarah Palin has the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district and when people do that, they’ve gotta realize there are consequences to that action.
Rep. Gabrielle Gifford on harassment and vandalism
Commonsense Conservatives & lovers of America: “Don’t Retreat, Instead – RELOAD!” Pls see my Facebook page.
Sarah Palin on Twitter
…on Palin’s “hit list.”
And the finger pointing has begun!
http://tinyurl.com/24r35ly
“There never is a shortage of violent, ignorant thugs in this land who fervently believe they can enforce their political will by force of arms.”
But that is exactly how government functions. The state extorts money (taxation) via their enforcers from people within a territory and pay the enforcers a little bit of the extortion money afterwards. This is a standard model of organized crime, which the government simply institutionalizes.
Jesse Kelly campaign event in June.
How comes we get 6 posts and nobody points out the obvious.
Congressional Dem shot – SHOCK HORROR
5 others killed – So what
Am I the only one who sees something wrong in that?
#8,
Actually, most of the shock at the minute is directed at the 9 year old little girl that was shot to death by the CCW holding tea party/republican shooter
A 10 year old is dead. That’s a lot of finger pointing.
John Boehner’s statement was a class act of leadership.
And Sarah Palin fans are speaking on the blogs:
– “The people have spoken”
– “12 more to go”
– “A patriot has taken action”
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Gabrielle Gifford’s father Spencer Gifford, 75, wept when asked if his 40-year-old daughter had any enemies.
“Yeah,” he told The Post. “The whole tea party.”
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Sarah Palin offers her condolences, but she does not “refudiate” the shootings.
I guess the Palin web site is getting an emergency makeover.
#6 should up his meds.
Good advice but not dramatic enough for most.
Ken Rudin’s It’s All Politics Blog on NPR
http://tinyurl.com/23cqlgf
Before you have too much fun blaming Sarah Palin, note one thing:
The longer the mainstream media (hides?)delays identifying the shooter, the more likely he is one of Barney Frank”s Mexican Muslim lovers.
I suggest you get a little more info before you start the blame game.
Jared Laughner appears to be the shooter. It will be interesting to learn what he actually was angry about.
He _might_ be an angry Conservative but one U.S. President was shot and killed because he didn’t hire a former supporter who felt cheated.
We need more information. It may well be true that this person’s anger was rather broader in scope than many think because the shooter was indiscriminate once he got going.
We need more guns. Perhaps we should provide everybody one when the turn 18, or 21 or whatever.
Thank you,
Your NRA
#13
Nice ad-hominem.
When applying logic, reason, and empiricism, it is overwhelmingly evident that the government is an institutionalized criminal organization.
Jared Lee Loughner seems to be a rabid follower of Glenn Beck and his “teachings”. And we all know that Glenn Beck is an independent thinker, and not part of the Tea Party… he has said so himself. So my apologies to Sarah Palin and her tea Party, her officially placing a target on Gabrielle’s back had nothing to do with this shooting or any other political violence.
#18,
Wow, you sound like the shooter. Are you quoting him intentionally?
If #5 is correct then-
1 down, and like about 15 more to go
#20
Are you interested in actual argumentation?
If so, would you provide a rational refutation of my first post?
“But that is exactly how government functions. The state extorts money (taxation) via their enforcers from people within a territory and pay the enforcers a little bit of the extortion money afterwards. This is a standard model of organized crime, which the government simply institutionalizes.”
#24,
No seriously, are you trying to sound like the shooter on purpose as some sort of gag???
#25
Another ad-hominem.
Since you are avoiding actual argumentation, I have nothing to reply.
Attention nut-bar shooters:
The Republicans already have a majority in the House. Please shoot some Democrat senators.
Thank you.
chuck, a child is among the dead.
> There never is a shortage of violent, ignorant thugs in this land who fervently believe they can enforce their political will by force of arms.
I imagine that’s what King George was thinking when those impudent colonists didn’t want to pay so many taxes.
I’m placing my bets this guy is a liberal loon like the shooter at the school board meeting.
Had enough of Obama’s lies and false promises.
When a liberal loon cracks, it’s all the way.
Ah_Yea, then that would explain why the right wing loons have to scrub their sites?
Who is scrubbing what? Show me.
Then I’ll show you how much Obama has scrubbed his past.
Also, I bet the meeting was in a “gun free zone”.