BREAKING: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Killed in Arizona

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Reportedly Shot
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, an Arizona Democrat first elected in 2006, has been shot in the head during a public event at a Tucson Grocery Store, according to several news reports. According to NPR, at least nine others, including members of her staff, were injured as well. Giffords' condition is not yet known. From NPR's report: The Democrat, who was re-elected to her third term in November, was hosting a "Congress on Your Corner" event at the Safeway in northwest Tucson when a gunman ran up and s...

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., Others, Reported Wounded In Shooting
What is this? "U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot outside a Grocery Store in Tucson while holding a public event, Arizona Public Media reported Saturday. "The Democrat, who was re-elected to her third term in November, was hosting a 'Congress on Your Corner' event at the Safeway in northwest Tucson when a gunman ran up and started shooting, according to Peter Michaels, news director of Arizona Public Media. "At least five other people, including members of her staff, were hurt. Gif...

Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shot in the head
(01-09) 04:00 PST Tucson -- Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot in the head Saturday by a gunman who opened fire outside a Grocery Store during a meeting with voters, killing a Federal Judge and five others in an attempted Assassination that rattled the country and left Americans questioning whether divisive politics had pushed the suspect over the edge. Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said Giffords was the target of a gunman whom he described as mentally unstable and possibly act...

Leftist Congresswoman Assassinated In Tucson
NPR: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and six others died after a gunman opened fire at a public event on Saturday, the Pima County, Ariz., sheriff’s office confirms. The 40-year-old Democrat, who was re-elected to her third term in November, was hosting a “Congress on Your Corner” event at a Safeway in northwest Tucson when a gunman ran up and started shooting, according to Peter Michaels, news director of Arizona Public Media. At least three other people, including members of her st...

BREAKING NEWS !
U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot outside a Grocery Store in Tucson while holding a public event, Arizona Public Media reported Saturday. Giffords, who was re-elected to her third term in November, was hosting her first "Congress on Your Corner” event at the Safeway in northwest Tucson when a gunman ran up and started shooting. At least five other people, including members of her staff, were hurt, according to Peter Michaels, news director of Arizona Public Media. Giffords...

Doctors 'Cautiously Optimistic' About Gabrielle Giffords' Condition
Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head in Tucson on Saturday during a Shooting Spree in which she was the apparent target, is able to understand and "follow simple commands" after two hours of Brain Surgery and doctors say they are "cautiously optimistic" about her condition. Dr. Michael Lemole, chief of Neurosurgery at University Medical Center, said the gunman's bullet had entered Giffords' brain on the left side, from back to front. While any wound of that type means her co...

Congresswoman Giffords Shot in Arizona
photo: Freedom to Marry via Flickr Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was holding a constituent service day in her Arizona district this morning, was shot in the head and wounded along with some of her staff. U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot outside a Grocery Store in Tucson while holding a public event, an eyewitness reported Saturday. Giffords, who was re-elected to her third term in November, was hosting her first “Congress on Your Corner” event at the Safeway in ...

Tucson rampage casts light on toxic political tone
WASHINGTON—Politicians of all stripes are bound to be haunted by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' warning, 10 months before she was shot, to cool the Rhetoric. It's been a year or more of raw politics, with anger spilling over on both sides and gun-related metaphors coming loosely from the lips of some Candidates and Activists. Giffords, a figurative target of the right, on Saturday became the actual target of a gunman who shot her through the head and killed at least five others. She was critica...

Tucson rampage casts light on toxic political tone
Politicians of all stripes are bound to be haunted by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' warning, 10 months before she was shot, to cool the Rhetoric. It's been a year or more of raw politics, with anger spilling over on both sides and gun-related metaphors coming loosely from the lips of some Candidates and Activists. Giffords, a figurative target of the right, on Saturday became the actual target of a gunman who shot her through the head and killed at least five others. She was critically wounded. The g...

Arizona shooting spotlights 'toxic' political climate
Recriminations and soul-searching burst forth Sunday over whether an inflamed political climate influenced a gunman to shoot a US congresswoman and 19 other people in Arizona. From the left and the right, politicians and commentators seized on the attempted Assassination of Representative Gabrielle Giffords Saturday as either a reflection of the passions stirred up by rabble-rousing Conservatives or the isolated act of an unhinged psychopath. Liberals highlighted a map posted online during the...

Federal judge, 9-year-old girl among Ariz. shooting victims
A gunman opened fire during a "Congress on Your Corner" event at a Tucson Safeway Saturday, killing six people and injuring 15, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords,D- Ariz. Those killed include: •Christina Green, 9 Green, who was born on Sept. 11, 2001, was recently elected to her school's Student council and was brought to the event by a neighbor who thought she might be interested. She is the grandaughter of Dallas Green, the former manager of the Philadelphia Phillies major league basebal...

Giffords: Dem who wins in conservative district
(01-09) 04:04 PST PHOENIX (AP) -- Gabrielle Giffords, one of her state's most high-profile Democrats, seems at first glance to be an unlikely choice of voters in conservative-leaning southern Arizona. But she has managed to remain popular, winning election three times in the Tucson-area Congressional District by holding Centrist positions, reaching out to constituents and bucking her party's position on many issues as a key member of the "Blue Dog Coalition" Democrats. She has been tough on bo...

Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Sunday opinion. And our hearts go out to the families of the Victims in the Arizona shooting. Arizona Daily Star: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords sent this guest opinion to the Star Friday outlining her priorities for the 112th Congress. I took the congressional oath of office for a third time this week, and the most important of the 71 words in that oath was my vow to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." These words are especially criti...

NPR reporting that Rep. Giffords killed
From NPR: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and six others died after a gunman opened fire at a public event on Saturday, the Pima County, Ariz., sheriff's office confirms. The 40-year-old Democrat was outside a Tucson Grocery Store when a gunman ran up and began firing indiscriminately. The suspect was taken into police custody. ...

Vitriol focus of lawmakers after Arizona shooting of Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords
Reporting from Washington — A day after a gunman opened fire at a public event in Tucson hosted by Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, political vitriol was the focus among some lawmakers, and the politics surrounding the violence broke down largely along partisan lines on the Sunday morning talks shows. Democratic members of Congress largely suggested that the shootings might have been sparked by increasingly bitter political Rhetoric while Republicans described the suspected shoo...

Gabrielle Giffords was on Sarah Palins crosshairs map - A history of violent words used against Giffords
No motives have emerged from today’s senseless shooting in Tucson, but Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has a long history of being targeted by the Tea Party—sometimes in violent terms. In the run-up to 2010’s heated Midterm Elections, Arizona Democrat Gabrielle Giffords was placedon Sarah Palin’s “target map,” released in March, which featured gun crosshairs superimposed over her target’s districts on a United States map. The graphic was removed from ...

After Giffords Shooting, Blame Game Begins on Abortion
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head at close range outside a Grocery Store in Tucson, Arizona on Saturday morning as a gunman opened fire and shot her and more than a dozen other people. Giffords was holding a public event at the grocery store, her first “Congress on Your Corner” event of the year designed to meet local constituents. Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said the gunman, 22-year-old suspect Jared Lee Loughner, waited in line to approach Giffords and s...

Surgeons say Giffords showing positive signs
TUCSON, Ariz. — Doctors treating wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords provided an optimistic update Sunday about her chances for survival, saying they are "very, very encouraged" by her ability to respond to simple commands along with their success in controlling her bleeding. The FBI said Law Enforcement could bring charges against the gunman as early as Sunday, and House Speaker John Boehner said normal House business this week has been postponed in the aftermath of the shooting. Surgeons s...

Who's the second 'person of interest'?
Investigators are still trying to figure out the identity of a man who was in Safeway at the same time and near the attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. FBI Director Robert Mueller told reporters that the man "appeared to be entering the Safeway" with the gunman who shot Giffords. But he said there are no accusations against the man, and that he is simply "somebody we need to identify." "We do not believe he fired any shots or was a shooter," Mueller said, adding th...

Surgeons say Giffords showing positive signs
In this photo taken Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ari... TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Doctors treating wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords provided an optimistic update Sunday about her chances for survival, saying they are "very, very encouraged" by her ability to respond to simple commands along with their success in controlling her bleeding. Surgeons said a bullet went through Giffords' head on the left side of the brain, but she is still able to respond to commands such as squeezi...

Irresponsible People in Responsible Positions
Moments after the tragic shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords, Arizona State Senator Linda Lopez blamed members of the Tea Party for the tragedy. What proof? What evidence? Senator Lopez had not one shred of evidence yet, she, nevertheless, irrationally blamed amorphous members of the Tea Party.  Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, who should have known better, displayed his lack of professionalism by deploring that Arizona had become “a mecca for prejudice and Bigotry.̶...

Tea Party Group Blames 'Leftists' for Giffords Shooting
Showing no sign of tamping down on divisive political Rhetoric in the wake of the shooting of 20 people that left six dead in Tuscon Saturday, the Tea Party Nation group e-mailed its members Sunday warning them they would be called upon to fight leftists in the days ahead and defend their movement. TPN founder Judson Phillips, in an article linked off the e-mail "The shooting of Gabrielle Giffords and the left's attack on the Tea Party movement," described the shooter as "a leftist lunatic" and...

Jared Lee Loughner Identified As Gabrielle Giffords Shooter
© AP/Arizona Daily Star Jared Lee Loughner has been identified as the man suspected of shooting Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.). Loughner was described by eyewitnesses at the Arizona shooting as a young white man who looked like a "fringe character," in his mid-to-late 20s, clean-shaven with short hair and wearing dark clothing. Loughner was quickly arrested after he allegedly shot Giffords and some 12 others at a public event at a Safeway Grocery Store in Tucscon. He reporte...

The Blood of Eden
Pollock's "The Deep" I caught sight of my reflection I caught it in the window I saw the darkness in my heart I saw the signs of my undoing They had been there from the start So many American bodies are sprayed with blood, their own, their lover’s, their mother’s and father’s, their brother’s and sister’s. Oh we are so certain of our innocence, but we are a nation tattooed in crimson, eyes to belly, with Jackson Pollock’s The Deep. We called it a N...

Details of suspect in US rampage slowly emerge
An initial portrait of the man accused of shooting Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in the head in an attack that also killed six people outside a Tucson Grocery Store slowly began to emerge, as authorities described a young man with a troubled past and neighbors recalled a 22-year-old who often kept to himself. One former classmate said the accused gunman, Jared Loughner, often did his own thing. Another described him as a Student who disrupted class with occasional outbursts. ...