Arizona gunman in court as Obama leads mourning

Family of accused Arizona shooter expresses sorrow
By Brad Pool TUCSON, Arizona | Tue Jan 11, 2011 9:11pm EST TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - Family members of a 22-year-old man charged in an Arizona Shooting Spree that killed six people and injured 14 expressed sorrow on Tuesday and said they didn't understand why the rampage happened. In an eight-sentence statement that never mentions the accused gunman, Jared Lee Loughner, his family says the shooting's aftermath was a "very difficult time" and asked for Privacy. "There are no words that can p...

Jesse Jackson's Bizarre Rant: is Rev ok?
In an oddly rambling, semi-coherent manner, the Reverend Jesse Jackson took to the airwaves yesterday to blame everything including the kitchen sink for Arizona's violent Shooting Spree. He appeared in-studio as a guest on the syndicated Al Sharpton Show. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought, expression, and worship. Read more... We invite all Ame...

John Roll Killing in Arizona Puts Focus on Judges' Security
Jared Lee Loughner’s target may have been Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, but his Murder of Judge John Roll is drawing attention to the threats faced by Federal Judges, especially those serving in border states. Shushannah Walshe reports....

Tea Party as victim in Arizona
Image by Getty Images via @daylife Guardian: A nine-year-old girl lies in the morgue. A member of Congress faces a lifetime of struggle to recover from a bullet in the brain. A city is bracing itself for a string of funerals as it tries to fathom the carnage. But Trent Humphries says there is another innocent Victim left by Jared Lee Loughner's killing of six people and wounding of 14 others in his Assassination attempt against Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. It is his Tea Party movement and...

A Tale of Two Sheriffs
The Tucson massacre that left six dead and injured 14, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, brought into sharp public focus the local sheriff, Clarence Dupnik. He’s been the sheriff of Pima County, which includes Tucson, Arizona’s second-largest city, for 30 years. For the 20 years before that, he was a police officer. Dupnik has gained attention this week for linking the shooting to the vitriolic political climate in the U.S., and in particular, Arizona. Speaking at a Press Conference...

How Thoughtful of Him: Julian Assange Now Quoting Sheriff Dupnik
It's bad enough this national embarrassment known as Clarence Dupnik is being given all the air time possible to spew his insane bilge and getting congratulatory calls from Barack Obama. Now international leftist icon Julian Assange is sending his props by quoting the insane Dupnik.In the one page statement, Mr Assange also offered sympathy and condolences to the Victims of the Tucson shooting on behalf of Wikileaks, together with best wishes for the recovery of US Representative Gabrielle Giffo...

Tighter Gun-control Laws A Long Shot
(NewsCore) - The Tucson shootings have renewed an effort among Northeast lawmakers to strengthen federal gun-control laws, but a partisan climate and an influential gun lobby mean that talk may be as far as it gets, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. On Tuesday, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), whose husband was killed by a lone gunman in a 1993 Shooting Spree, said she would introduce Legislation to reinstate a ban on high-capacity magazines like the one used by the Tucson shooter. Rep. P...

Family of Arizona shooting suspect expresses sorrow
By Brad Poole TUCSON, Arizona | Tue Jan 11, 2011 9:24pm EST TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - The family of the accused gunman in the Arizona Shooting Spree expressed sorrow on Tuesday over the "heinous events" while the congresswoman shot in the head showed signs of improvement. In their first public statement, relatives of Jared Lee Loughner, 22, said it was a "very difficult time" and asked for Privacy. "There are no words that can possibly express how we feel. We wish there were, so we could ma...

Gun law lobbyists call for action as Obama heads to Arizona
Barack Obama will fly to Tucson for a memorial service today for the fallen from last Saturday's shooting rampage just as Democrats start a push on Capitol Hill for a reintroduction of at least one element of an anti-gun package that was allowed to lapse in the first George W Bush Administration. Efforts to comfort those traumatised by the attack, which left Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords critically wounded and killed six, including a Federal Judge, were set to begin here last night with a f...

Judy Clarke: Jared Loughner's 'Amazing' Attorney
She counseled Ted Kaczynski 13 years ago this month when the Unabomber was toying with the government in advance of his Guilty Plea. She helped an unrepentant Eric Robert Rudolph, the Olympic Park bomber, avoid a death sentence. She was present and accountable during the chaotic trial of Susan Smith, the South Carolina mother who drowned her two small Children in a car in a lake. She even represented Zacarias Moussaoui, the mercurial Al-Qaeda conspirator. All of those defendants faced capital ch...

Elizabeth Hasselbeck: Sheriff Dupnik Is 'Creating A More Dangerous Country'
One of The View co-hosts, Elizabeth Hasselbeck, stopped by The Factor and told Bill O'Reilly she wasn't happy about Sheriff Dupnik continuing to blame right-wing Rhetoric for the Arizona shooting. She also revealed despite being the only conservative voice on The View, she doesn't feel like she's ganged up on. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought,...

While Giffords Heals, Loughner's Parents Cry
Photo: AFP It was a good day for Gabrielle Giffords: While she remains in critical condition, doctors are reporting her to be healing and responsive. Doctors say that the third and fourth day after a traumatic brain injury are actually the most critical, and are optimistic that, though she's still not able to speak, her recovery is going well. More on Giffords, shooter Jared Lee Loughner and how Arizona is healing, below: Dr. Peter Rhee, the director of medical trauma at the University Medical...

In Arizona, Obama to honor memories, speak of hope
WASHINGTON — Under high expectations to provide healing, President Barack Obama on Wednesday will try to convert the horror of the Arizona shootings into a moment of national unity, centering his memorial Speech in Tucson on the lives of the Victims and the heroism of those who rushed to stop the madness. The president was crafting his Speech on Tuesday, and his aides were reluctant to discuss it even broadly in its unfinished form, other than to say it will emphasize the memories of tho...

Arizona gunman in court as Obama leads mourning
The man accused of trying to assassinate a congresswoman in an Arizona Shooting Spree that left six dead appeared in court Monday but said nothing to shed light on his motive. President Barack Obama led the Americans in a somber minute of silence to honor the 20 people gunned down in Tucson -- where he will attend a memorial service on Wednesday, the White House announced. Flags were at half-staff at the Capitol in Washington, where hundreds of aides and lawmakers crammed the storied steps of ...

WikiLeaks Julian Assange Quotes Sheriff Dupnik, Says Americans Need to Tone Down the Vitriolic Rhetoric
Julian Assange has thanked Australia for its support of his - and Wikileaks’s - cause but called on Americans to tone down political Rhetoric, saying those who incite violence should be charged with incitement to Murder. …In the one page statement, Mr Assange also offered sympathy and condolences to the Victims of the Tucson shooting on behalf of WikiLeaks, together with best wishes for the recovery of US Representative Gabrielle Giffords. The Democrat from Arizona’...

Vt. senator cites shootings in fundraising letter
MONTPELIER, Vt. — An independent U.S. senator from Vermont drew criticism Tuesday from Republicans for citing this past weekend's shootings in Arizona in a Fundraising letter for his 2012 re-election campaign. The e-mail that Sen. Bernie Sanders sent Tuesday begins by mentioning the Shooting Spree in Tucson that killed six people and left Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 13 others wounded. The letter also mentions issues such as Health Care, Social Security and taxes. In his d...

For those about to Glock (fire!), we do not salute you
Two truisms about America: 1) There's no such thing as bad publicity and 2) There are second acts in American life... ...especially if your name is Glock: After a Glock-wielding gunman killed six people at a Tucson shopping center on Jan. 8, Greg Wolff, the owner of two Arizona gun shops, told his manager to get ready for a stampede of new customers. Wolff was right. Instead of hurting sales, the massacre had the $499 semi-automatic pistols -- popular with police, sport shooters and gangsters...

Family of Arizona shooting suspect expresses sorrow
TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - The family of the accused gunman in the Arizona shooting spree expressed sorrow on Tuesday over the "heinous events" while the congresswoman shot in the head showed signs of improvement. In their first public statement, relatives of Jared Lee Loughner, 22, said it was a "very difficult time" and asked for Privacy. "There are no words that can possibly express how we feel. We wish there were, so we could make you feel better," read the statement, attributed to "The Lo...

Arizona's extremism in the spotlight
In his Saturday news briefing, just hours after the shooting, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said: The anger, the hatred, the Bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous.... And unfortunately, Arizona I think has become sort of the capital. We have become the mecca for prejudice and bigotry. While a couple of Arizona Republicans, Rep. Trent Franks and Sen. Jon Kyl, took issue with Dupnik's remarks, a few Arizona Democrats have first hand knowledge to back up the Sheri...

Relatives, friends remember 6 slain in Tucson
A memorial Mass for the Victims of Saturday's shootings that killed six and wounded 14 at a political event in Arizona was held Tuesday evening at the church where one of the slain had her First Communion a year ago. The Mass was held at the Tucson church of 9-year-old Christina Green, the youngest of those who died. The shooting happened outside a Supermarket at an event held by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head and was in critical condition at a Hospital Tuesday. In t...

Relatives, friends remember 6 killed in Tucson
A memorial Mass for the Victims of Saturday's shootings that killed six and wounded 14 at a political event in Arizona was held Tuesday evening at the church where one of the slain had her First Communion a year ago. The Mass was held at the Tucson church of 9-year-old Christina Green, the youngest of those who died. The shooting happened outside a Supermarket at an event held by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head and was in critical condition at a Hospital Tuesday. In t...

Memorial service held for Arizona shooting victims
TUCSON, Arizona | Tue Jan 11, 2011 10:08pm EST TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - More than 600 mourners gathered on Tuesday at a memorial service for the Victims of a Shooting Spree that killed six people and wounded 14 others, including a Congresswoman. Among those killed in the rampage on Saturday were U.S. District Judge John Roll and Christina Taylor Green, the 9-year-old granddaughter of former pro Baseball manager Dallas Green. Critically injured was Representative Gabrielle Giffords, the app...

Accused shooter's poems evoke his daily routine, scenes from Mauritius
Arizona shooting Six people were killed and 14 others wounded, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona. Jared Lee Loughner is accused in a deadly shooting at a constituents meeting in Tucson, Arizona, held by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords....

After the Arizona Tragegy -- Healing the National Psyche
While Jared Loughner’s murderous violence was not caused—not even a little bit—by partisan politics in Arizona or in Washington, D.C., the fact that some politicians boldly and fraudulently stated that it was is evidence that our national psyche needs healing. Today, any news event, including a shooting by a psychiatrically disturbed man who takes some of his inspiration from an imaginary large, gray bird with scales, but no feathers, is fodder for Public Relations machines eng...

Rampage Suspect's Family: 'We Don't Know Why This Happened'
The family of the man accused of Saturday's shooting rampage in Tucson, Ariz., broke its silence Tuesday, issuing a brief written statement expressing sympathy for the Victims and their families. "We don't understand why this happened," the family wrote in the statement distributed to a cadre of reporters assembled outside the home. "It may not make any difference but we wish that we could change the heinous events of Saturday. "We care very deeply about the Victims and their families. We are so...