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This is just absolutely awful.
Arizona Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head today during a constituency event outside a grocery store in Tuscon. Giffords later died of her injuries. She was only 40.
FNC is reporting that three other people were also killed including a child.
Giffords was elected to her third term as the representative for Arizona’s Eighth District last November.
She is survived by her husband astronaut Mark E. Kelly.
UPDATE: Giffords is alive and in surgery.
Obviously, the situation is touch and go. But if she pulls through never will I have been so happy to get something wrong.
UPDATE: While Giffords has a long way to go there’s a good chance she will survive her injuries.
Sadly, the same cannot be said for six other people who have now been identified.
Judge John Boll, the Chief Justice of the Arizona District Court, was a friend of Giffords and went over to her event to say hello with no way of knowing what was to happen.
Gabe Zimmerman, a member of Giffords’ staff, is also amongst the dead. He was to be married this summer.
Christina Taylor Green had just been elected to her school’s student council. What better way to learn about public service than to meet her local Congresswoman? She was only 9.
Dorwin Stoddard, a local pastor, also died in the attack. I haven’t seen any details about the lives of Dorthy Murray and Phyllis Scheck other than if not for the act of a deranged man they would have woken up tomorrow.
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Floyd Looney| 1.8.11 @ 2:49PM
We may have a suspect from Kos...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/.....ncy-Pelosi!-And-is-now-DEAD-to-me
Dean from Ohio| 1.8.11 @ 4:03PM
They've pulled the post, the cowards.
Booger| 1.8.11 @ 4:41PM
Giffords may not have been the target. Federal Judge John McCarthy Roll, chief federal judge for AZ, was killed in the attack. Roll had recently presided over a case where an AZ rancher being sued for civil rights violations by illegal aliens/smugglers won the case against the illegals. Roll threw out the charges where the jury did NOT rule in the rancher's favor.
Booger| 1.8.11 @ 4:41PM
http://www.washingtontimes.com.....er/?page=2
Link for some of my info above.
Nick| 1.8.11 @ 4:21PM
Mr. Looney,
What did it say?
John Tabin| 1.8.11 @ 2:50PM
As of now (2:50 PM) she's reported to be alive and in surgery. Earlier report of her death was wrong.
mc| 1.8.11 @ 2:55PM
sources say she's still alive!!
btims| 1.8.11 @ 3:44PM
Believing in and advocating limited government, i s not "nutty", you sad sack of a man.
God Bless the Tea Party, for they are the Real Americans, not that Marxist-Moooslim boy in the White House for another 23 months!!
ThatJoeGuy| 1.8.11 @ 3:59PM
Nice try but we're not the party of hate. As much as you'd like us to be, your wrong and the preponderance of evidence to support that is just a google search away.
Dixie Pixie| 1.8.11 @ 6:29PM
Ken, To answer your question.
Harvard and the other Ivy League training centers would be my guess.
gsr| 1.8.11 @ 3:41PM
Notice how if an alleged murderer is white, the media doesn't wait a second to state "white shooter" but if an alleged murderer is not white, the MSM waits and waits and waits until it says that fact.
Jeremiah| 1.9.11 @ 6:55AM
I have a question for those on the Left who visit this site and comment, particularly those who have made a link between this guy and the Tea Party or GOP.
Why is it not okay to use the acts of jihadists, suicide bombers, or other terrorists as representatives of Islam, but it's okay for you to use this nutjob as an example of a movement that represents millions of Americans, and is based on the founding principles of our country?
Well there are, you should understand, seldom more than a few short hours between the time that a tragic act occurs and when its perpetrator's political beliefs, if any, come to light. The Venomous Left needs to take advantage of every single minute to paint the perp as a right wing extremist, before the actual facts are known. After all, those hours are the most important in shaping the public's perceptions and recollections of the event.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to read The Communist Manifesto, which, as you know, tops every good right winger's list of favorite books.
I Survived Arlen Specter| 1.8.11 @ 3:44PM
The editor here needs to start banning individuals here for their inflammatory accusations & comments here. Now!
Dixie Pixie| 1.8.11 @ 5:27PM
Greetings Specter Survivor
One can not believe in the US Constitution and the "Traditional American Freedoms" such as "Freedom of Speech" and have the desire to stifle debate.
After all it is a rather dull debate when only one side is presented.
Consider the purpose of the reader comments thread is to have a wide ranging debate on the issues so the moon-bats of both the left and right are welcome.
Personally, I miss "Daphne", she was funny.
After it is amusing to some on the right to see a delusional, demented leftist rant about maniacal doctors roaming the hospital hall looking for limbs to amputate for profit.
Oops, That was Obama that did that.
To quote Emily Litella, "Never Mind"
Nick| 1.8.11 @ 4:20PM
We should ALL be praying for the victims of this tragedy, and their families.
May God watch over them.
Jeremiah| 1.8.11 @ 4:26PM
She is a nice, charming and gifted lady and she is a conservative dem, not a Obamessiah worshipper. When she gets well, I'll send her flowers on behalf of TAS. I just hope that her being a Jew was not what triggered the murder attempt.
WJ| 1.9.11 @ 10:26AM
Giffords did not deserve to be shot.
To call her a conservative Dem is a mistake. She voted for the Dream Act. Keith Olbermann was "suspended" from his show for giving her campaign donations. Jewish or not is irrelevant. She was not one of the "good ones".
Her shooter should be tried and executed.
Margie| 1.9.11 @ 12:36PM
I don't care what she voted for, she's in my prayers.
May God have mercy on her and save her.
Margie| 1.9.11 @ 12:43PM
I just thought of this verse:
"Be angry, but sin not". Ps. 4:4.
It's one thing to be angry at wrongdoing, and if this person's ranch was taken away or whatever is the case I do not know.
But it's another to go out and kill people, and then you should have to pay for it with your own life.
I hope he gets the death penalty.. God's will be done.