Texy Posted January 8, 2011 Posted January 8, 2011 Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is in critical condition after being shot in the head at close range Saturday morning while holding a public event, Fox News has confirmed. Initial reports said that Giffords had died but a hospital spokesman and three House sources told Fox News that she remained alive in a nearby hospital where she was undergoing surgery. At least 19 people were shot at Gifford's "Your Corner" event held outside a Safeway grocery store in Tucson, including three members of the Democratic congresswoman's staff in Arizona. Five have died and nine are in critical condition at the University of Arizona Medical Center. A suspect is in custody. Authorities are looking for a possible second suspect. According to the law enforcement official, the suspect began shouting something before shooting wildly with an automatic weapon. Shots then rang out from the crowd -- a security agent or someone else fired at the suspect who survived. Suspect is his early to late 20s, white...clean shaved. Probably a tea bagger Sarah Palin has taken down her website with map of gun crosshairs on Gifford and many other democrats around the country This was the map:
Texy Posted January 8, 2011 Author Posted January 8, 2011 While there is no hard evidence at this point to suggest that the shooting was politically motivated, Matt Yglesias points out that an anti-Giffords event was held in June with the billing: "Get on Target for Victory in November. Help remove Gabrielle Giffords from office. Shoot a fully automatic M16 with Jesse Kelly." Rep. Giffords was also on Sarah Palin's "target list." As noted earlier, a gun was dropped at a Giffords event in 2009, and her office was vandalized in March. Giffords' last tweet before getting shot:
Clarke Posted January 12, 2011 Posted January 12, 2011 Lad failed a drug test in the Army recruitment process and was kicked out of community college after 5 infractions. He's then able to buy a gun easily with a larger magazine. Guns don't kill people though, if everyone at the gathering had a gun, they could have shot him before he did as much harm :blink: I heard this damn argument one more time ..
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