Arizona shooting: Latest developments

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 Co...

The Note's Must-Reads for Tuesday, January 11, 2011
The Note's Must-Reads are a round-up of today's political headlines and stories from ABC News and the top U.S. Newspapers. Posted Monday through Friday right here at www.abcnews.com Compiled by ABC News Digital News Associates and Desk Assistants JAYCE HENDERSON, JACQUELINE FERNANDEZ, CLAUDIA MORALES, MOLLY HUNTER and KATY CONRAD Arizona SHOOTING / Gun Control: ABC News’ Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller: “Obama Phones Sheriff Dupnik, Families of the Victims, The Heroes, and Giffor...

Alaska lowers flags in honor of Tucson shooting victims
Flags will be lowered to half-staff beginning Monday until sunset Friday in honor of the Victims of the Arizona shootings. U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 19 other people were shot Saturday morning by a gunman who opened fire at a town hall gathering she was hosting at a Safeway in northwest Tucson. Six people died and Giffords was critically injured. President Barack Obama ordered flags to be lowered and the Governor's office says the state is doing the same. "I urge all Alaskans to pause toda...

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 ...

Jared Loughner's Parents "Hurting Real Bad"
This March 2010 photo shows a man identified as Jared L. Loughner at the 2010 Tucson Festival of Books in Tucson, Ariz. (AP/Arizona Daily Star, Mamta Popat) CBS News' Bob Orr and Jan Crawford discuss with CBS News' John Dickerson what authorities know about the suspected shooter in Saturday's tragedy in Tucson, Jared Lee Loughner. (CBS) TUCSON - A long-time neighbor of Jared Loughner's family tells The Wall Street Journal that the Tucson shooting rampage suspect's father has prepared a statemen...

The latest updates on the Gabrielle Giffords shooting incident in Tucson
The shooting of United States Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others is still the dominant story in news and is expected to remain so for the coming days.  Six people have died from the shootings, which took place while the Congresswoman was hosting a public event in Tucson, Arizona.  Fourteen people were injured, including the Congresswoman who was shot in the head.  Below readers can see the latest updates on the story. -  The parents of the shooting suspect, Jared ...

Doctor: Gabrielle Giffords 'holding her own' after shooting
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords's doctor said the congresswoman was "holding her own" at a Hospital in Tucson early Monday morning, with CT scans showing that the swelling in her brain is not getting any worse. This Story Christina-Taylor Green, 9-year-old killed in Tucson, remembered, mourned Obama calls for national moment of silence for Tucson Victims Doctor: Gabrielle Giffords 'holding her own' after shooting Giffords able to communicate, respond Gabrielle Giffords, congresswoman from A...

Insanity defense harder now than for Hinckley
WASHINGTON (AP) — In an earlier time, the deeply troubled past of Jared Loughner might have led his lawyers to mount an insanity defense. But that would be harder now, because Congress raised the bar for that claim after a jury found John Hinckley innocent by reason of insanity for shooting President Ronald Reagan. And the federal system is not alone in posing high hurdles to insanity defenses. State officials plan to charge Loughner as well, and Arizona law does not allow a verdict of not...

Will AZ Shooter Kill the First Amendment?
Joe Guzzardi, FloydReports.com Immediately after crazed gunman Jared Lee Loughner gravely wounded Arizona U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, killed U.S. Judge John M. Roll, and six other people while wounding 12 innocent bystanders, the Immigration Rhetoric subtly ratcheted up. Denouncing Gifford’s shooting, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik and others made it clear that what they referred to as “inflammatory Speech” had made the political atmosphere in Arizona so toxic that acts

The heroesof Arizona
It's an ancient warfare tactic, and one Terrorists of every stripe employ to wreak violence on the innocent: The element of surprise. Once the attacker ambushes presumably unarmed civilians, in a peaceful setting, the Victims are usually paralyzed through shock and cannot defend themselves. It takes remarkable presence of mind to survive – much less mount a unified offensive against the attacker and save other innocents. In the Arizona attack Saturday that killed six and injured 14, the...

Daly: Bam's mum as Bloomy leads fight vs. guns
Our mayor was at his undeniable worst during the blizzard, but he has always been at his indisputable best when it comes to bullets. And the horror in Arizona proves once again how right he is to campaign so tirelessly against gun violence. When even our President has been cowed by the supporters of "Gun Rights," Mayor Bloomberg has done everything in his power to stem the unending carnage. He has been that rare political leader who acts because he believes it is the right thing to do. He cert...

A tragedy in Tucson, and more arguing on talk TV
In the wake of the Arizona shootings, conservative talk-show host Glenn Beck issued a challenge to all Americans to reject violence. Liberal talk-show host Keith Olbermann voiced his own call for repudiating violence. Has Saturday's rampage inspired a measure of consensus and a softening of Rhetoric among cable TV's more confrontational hosts? Not that you could tell from Monday's clash of TV pundits, even as they reacted to accusations that the polarized environment in which they operate may ha...

A tragedy in Tucson, and more arguing on talk TV
NEW YORK (AP) — In the wake of the Arizona shootings, conservative talk-show host Glenn Beck issued a challenge to all Americans to reject violence. Liberal talk-show host Keith Olbermann voiced his own call for repudiating violence. Has Saturday’s rampage inspired a measure of consensus and a softening of Rhetoric among cable TV’s more confrontational hosts? Not that you could tell from Monday’s clash of TV pundits, even as they reacted to accusations that the polarized ...

Insanity defense harder now than for Hinckley
In an earlier time, the deeply troubled past of Jared Loughner might have led his lawyers to mount an insanity defense. But that would be harder now, because Congress raised the bar for that claim after a jury found John Hinckley innocent by reason of insanity for shooting President Ronald Reagan. And the federal system is not alone in posing high hurdles to insanity defenses. State officials plan to charge Loughner as well, and Arizona law does not allow a verdict of Not Guilty by reason of ins...

Insanity defense harder now than for Hinckley
WASHINGTON—In an earlier time, the deeply troubled past of Jared Loughner might have led his lawyers to mount an insanity defense. But that would be harder now, because Congress raised the bar for that claim after a jury found John Hinckley innocent by reason of insanity for shooting President Ronald Reagan. And the federal system is not alone in posing high hurdles to insanity defenses. State officials plan to charge Loughner as well, and Arizona law does not allow a verdict of not guilt...

In a pall, official Washington a stunned place
(01-10) 19:32 PST WASHINGTON, CA (AP) -- The nation's capital lumbered to work in a pall Monday, somber from the Congress to the White House, as official Washington absorbed an Assassination attempt against one of its own. Giving voice to the grief, President Barack Obama conceded that everyone was still in shock. By the end of the long day, Obama had secured plans to travel on Wednesday to Tucson, Ariz., to speak at a memorial service for the Victims of the deadly attack. White House spokesma...

Americans observe moment of silence for Arizona victims
From the White House to Outer Space to the City Coffee Shop in Camden, Americans paid homage to the Victims of last weekend's shootings in Tucson, Ariz., by halting the buzz and motion of their day for a moment of silence at 11 a.m. Monday. On the White House South Lawn, President Obama and his wife, Michelle, presided over a national moment to pray and reflect on the event. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D., Ariz.) was wounded and six people were killed Saturday, including a Federal Judge and 9-year-...

The Lefts Script of Hate
“Just the facts, ma’am,” Dragnet’s Joe Friday famously informed witnesses he interviewed. Oft-interviewed Pima County Sherriff Clarence Dupnik might adopt the catchphrase: “Save the facts, ma’am. Just the narrative.” The narrative of right-wing Rhetoric fueling accused mass-murderer Jared Lee Loughner proved so seductive to partisans that they didn’t wait for the compilation of facts, or burial of the dead, to advance their politically opportunisti...

John Boehner's 9/11 Moment
This surely is not how Republican John Boehner expected to launch his new speakership, or open the new 112th Congress. He planned to follow the pomp of the first week with a big, partisan vote Wednesday to Repeal last year's landmark Healthcare Reform law. But then Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was gunned down on Saturday in a Parking Lot in her Tucson, Arizona, district, and everything changed. That Repeal vote was put on hold, as was the rest of the legislative business planned this week in the Ho...

Loughner appears in court; Obama plans trip to Arizona on Wednesday
PHOENIX - Jared Lee Loughner, appearing in court for the first time since he allegedly killed six people and wounded 14, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, in a Shooting Spree in Tucson on Saturday, calmly answered questions from a judge Monday and heard the charges against him before being led off in custody without bail. This Story Arizona shooting suspect Loughner makes first appearance in Federal Court The faces of Jared Loughner Bullet's path may determine Giffords's injuries A look at t...

Arizona is on the brink | Max Blumenthal
The social fabric of Arizona seems to be deteriorating as fast as the state's population grows, driving it to the brink of dysfunction. The shooting of congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, US District Court judge John Roll and several other innocent bystanders by a lone gunman have brought the state's crisis to the fore, prompting Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik to declare it "the mecca for prejudice and Bigotry". Since I first travelled to Arizona more than seven years ago to interview rightwi...

Gun control, tone of rhetoric take center stage after Arizona shooting
The Tuscon shooting Saturday that left Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords severely wounded, six dead and 13 others injured, is shaking Washington politically as much as it is emotionally. Health Care is off, for now. A debate about Gun Control may be back on. But the biggest breakdown, it seems, is over conduct rather than content. Several lawmakers (mostly Democrats) are blaming a poisoned political discourse and thinly veiled incitements to violence for having created an environment that...

The exploitive rhetoric of tragedy
After all, unlike Sarah Palin's absurdly infamous Facebook map with crosshairs on Congressional Districts that some pundits have blamed for the violence, we have some evidence — suspect Jared Lee Loughner's own words — that these books were a direct influence on him. And to listen to partisan ghouls such as Keith Olbermann exploiting this horrific crime, any Rhetoric or writing or images that contributed to it must be stopped and those who don't accept blame and then repent (specific...

For Giffords, right doctors in right place
Two of the surgeons who were waiting to pick up the pieces from the “mini-mass-casualty” event in Tucson, Ariz., have ties to the Washington area and, some might say, were the right doctors at the right place at the right time to help Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Peter Rhee, head of the trauma department at the University of Arizona Medical Center, said he had all the gear and good people he needed Saturday as Giffords and 10 others were brought to the emergency department. Continue ...

CNN Goes After Arizona's Gun Laws as Major Factor in Shooting
On Monday's Newsroom, CNN treated Arizona's Gun Laws as a significant contributor to the shootings in Tucson. Correspondent Jessica Yellin prompted the local prosecutor to spout her pro-gun control views. Anchor Brooke Baldwin highlighted a local Republican's gun-toting ad and the infamous clip of an anti-Obama Protester carrying a semi-automatic rifle outside a 2009 presidential event in Arizona. Yellin interviewed Pima County, Arizona Attorney Barbara LaWall, a Democrat (though Yel...