Former Classmate Of Rep. Giffords Shares Personal Memories

After The Arizona Massacre, The Issue Almost No One Is Talking About But On Which (Hopefully) We Can Agree
As President Obama lifted the hearts of the nation Wednesday night, I find my own heart lifted. He's entirely right to move past assigning blame for the massacre in Arizona, and I feel called, as the president asks, to live up to the expectations of Christina Taylor Green, the little 9-year-old girl who was murdered while coming to meet Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. (I say that, it must be noted, as one who earlier pointed my finger squarely at Sarah Palin for fueling political ill-will leading up ...

Former Classmate Of Rep. Giffords Shares Personal Memories
Since last weekend’s deadly shooting in Arizona that claimed six lives, and left 14 wounded - including a vibrant, young Congresswoman - people have been (Read more...) ...

Mayor Bloomberg says he doesn't blame Sarah Palin for Tuscon shooting
The tragic shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has led to a lot of finger pointing, including from New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, but one person who the mayor doesn’t blame is former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. On Tuesday Bloomberg, who serves as co-chair of the nearly 600 member Mayors Against Illegal Guns blamed government officials for selling a gun to a man who was rejected from the Military due to drug use and outlined five simple measures that could preve...

Mental health services severely cut in Pima County, AZ in 2010
It's not just patients on the organ transplant list in Arizona that have suffered under Jan Brewer's administration. Mental Health services in the state were drastically cut in 2010. WASHINGTON -- In the past year, Pima County, Ariz., where Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others were shot Saturday, has seen more than 45 percent of its mental health services recipients forced off the public rolls, a service advocate told The Huffington Post. The deep cuts in treatment were protested st...

Could AZ Shooter Have Been Stopped? Foxs Megyn Kelly Asks OReilly: Where Were The Parents?
Fox’s Megyn Kelly sat down with Bill O’Reilly to talk about the red flags and-possibly-missed signals that might’ve landed the Arizona shooter into police custody or a Mental Health facility before Saturday’s nightmarish Shooting Spree. Kelly outlined the low-level run-ins with police that suspect Jared Loughner is known to have had in the months ahead of the shootings, but concludes that minor drug arrests would not have aroused much suspicion-perhaps...

Jared Loughner alleged to use the drug salvia - Did it precipitate Gabrielle Giffords shooting?
A friend says the Arizona shooter used the hallucinogen salvia. Arizona shooter Jared Loughner used salvia, the Hallucinogenic drug, according to a High School friend of his. Obviously, Loughner was troubled. But did salvia have anything to do with it? There’s very little scientific information about the drug’s effects—thanks, in part, to salvia’s relative safety. “So far, the Federal Government has not funded any studies, because it’s not seen as relevant unt...

Quote Of The Day - Trent Humphries
"It’s political gamesmanship. The real case is that she [Giffords] had no security whatsoever at this event. So if she lived under a constant fear of being targeted, if she lived under this constant fear of this Rhetoric and hatred that was seething, why would she attend an event in full view of the public with no security whatsoever?" - Tucson Tea Party founder Trent Humphries, blaming Rep. Gabrielle Giffords for her own shooting. Labels: Arizona, assholery, Gabrielle Giffords, Tea Party, T...

How the mental health system failed Jared Loughner, despite Arizonas lenient commitment standard (Daily Caller)
Read more stories from The Daily Caller MSNBC's Chris Matthews is the left's version of a 'birther,' says Pat Buchanan Congressman's wife sentenced to jail for Tax Fraud Giffords making miraculous recovery, can move arms and legs Military commission prepares to recommend that women be allowed in combat roles TheDC on TV: Jamie Weinstein discusses Health Care on the RT's 'Big Picture with Thom Hartmann' As Americans grapple with the implications of Saturday’s shooting in Tucson, which ki...

9-year-old girl's death hits home for Obama
There are moments that define a presidency, and Barack Obama's Speech Wednesday night to a memorial service for Arizona Shooting Victims may be one. First in a moving eulogy to those who died, then in uplifting tales of those who acted heroically, finally in a call to the nation to live up to the ideals of a slain 9-year-old girl, Obama recaptured, at least temporarily, the appeal that first thrust him onto the national stage: the sense that the country is a family that yearns to be united, no...

US: HealthWatch: Rep. Giffords And Brain Injury
© unknown Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords It has been almost three days since Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head in Arizona. Tuesday Morning she remained in critical condition at a Hospital in Tucson. Dr. Max Gomez reports on how she was able to survive such a devastating injury and what will determine how much function she may recover. Giffords is heading into the most critical time in her recovery, when her brain will usually reach its maximum swelling after the gun...

Ariz. Shooting Trial Set to Become Long
(FOXNews.com) - As Tucson residents seek closure to Saturday's Mass Shooting with a series of Vigils, memorials and Funeral services, a new and likely painful chapter opens this month with a legal trial that could last another year or more, FOXNews.com reported Thursday. Early signals out of the courtroom in Phoenix suggest the case will be marked by a breathtaking number of motions as defense attorney Judy Clarke seeks to spare her client, accused shooter Jared Lee Loughner, 22, from the death ...

DJ Jaffe: Obama Left Out Jared Loughner and His Mom
Obama gave a great Speech Wednesday night. But I wish he had some prayers and hopes for Jared Loughner and his family. People with Mental Illness and their moms need our prayers and support. Jared's schizophrenia wasn't developed enough where his parents could differentiate it from being a 'crazy' teen. But even had they known chances are, there would be nothing they could do. I've met many a person with Mental Illness and many a mom of someone with serious mental illness. The moms would call...

Democrat Sheriff Dupnik Guilty of Dereliction of Duty
Back on Monday I posted that Pima County Sheriff Dupnik was blaming the right for the slaughter at Safeway but details had emerged of multiple contacts between Jared Loughner and Dupnik's office over multiple death threats. Duplicious and deceiving, he libeled decent and fine Americans in order to deflect his guilt. Perhaps he believes eveyone will call for cessation of blame and his gross negligence will be overlooked. How disingenuous and dangerous for President Obama to have called Dupn...

Republicans' health repeal would cut off expansion of mental health services
Amanda Terkel has a very good reminder about the Affordable Care Act--with their Repeal of the "job-killing" health reform law, they would kill an expansion of Mental Health services. "The shooter was a very disturbed individual and it appears there were so many warning signs that he was going to do something horrible," Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) wrote on his Facebook page. "We should be focusing on the Mental Health crisis in our country, not politics." As Igor Volsky of ThinkProgress points ou...

The Trade-Off: Should We Commit Mentally Unstable People?
"There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs." -- Thomas Sowell James Lee Lougher, the shooter in the Tucscon massacre, was a scary dude and lot of people knew he had serious issues before he went on a rampage. After he was accused of shooting 20 people last Saturday, school officials described his behavior while at Pima as odd and disruptive. But police reports show in chilling detail that the behavior frightened Students and teachers. In February, a rattled student told school officials...

Pelosi Calls Tucson Murders an 'Accident'
"This resolution is a fitting tribute. It is a great resolution. Please, read it again and again. Carry those names in your heart. Remember, each of these people because, again, a tragic accident took lives, wounded people in the expression of ideas." 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 America...

Mass Shootings and Mental Illness
Like this Story? Share it: (CBS) The events in Tucson left many of us asking - How could this happen? But we've seen this before - an unstable man, a senseless attack. It's put a spotlight on Mental Illness. In this country, 45 million adults are mentally ill. 11 million of those cases are considered serious. CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric reports on how those who need help most are falling through the cracks. "Oftentimes, when we have tragedies like this people will say there were no w...

Gibbs spars with Russian journalist over Tucson shootings
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and Andrei Sitov of Russia's official news agency ITAR-TASS entered into a somewhat passionate exchange Thursday regarding the Tuscon shootings. After Gibbs called on him during questioning, Sitov expressed his condolences for the Victims and commented that the shooter's "deranged" actions represented "the reverse side of freedom." Gibbs countered by describing the "Congress on your Corner" event that Rep. Gabrielle Giffo...

Surrounded by friends, Giffords opens one eye and reaches for husband's hand
At first, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords opened her eye just a tiny bit. Then she opened it again, and again. This Story The Take: As Obama urged unity, Palin brought division Police recover black bag, ammunition believed to belong to Tucson suspect Wasserman-Schultz, Gillibrand discuss Giffords opening her eyes Obama: 'Gabby opened her eyes' Hero intern Daniel Hernandez talks with The Post Obama Tucson Speech: A way that heals Loughner pulled over before shooting Tucson recovers Obama visits surviv...

Christina Taylor Green, 9-year-old Tucson victim, is laid to rest
TUCSON - She became a national symbol of a longing for civility - a young girl full of innocent magic, curious about the world around her, brimming with excitement over her recent election to her Student council. This Story At Gabrielle Giffords's bedside, a constant, emotional vigil after Tucson shooting Christina Taylor Green, 9-year-old Tucson Victim, is laid to rest Police recover black bag, ammunition believed to belong to Tucson suspect Young Shooting Victim remembered Doctors: Giffords...

Before Tucson rampage, a powerful law went unused
By Andrew Longstreth NEW YORK | Thu Jan 13, 2011 4:56pm EST NEW YORK Jan 13 (Reuters Legal) - As evidence mounts that Jared Lee Loughner exhibited disturbing behavior months before the rampage in Tucson, it's increasingly clear that Arizona authorities could legally have detained him for psychiatric evaluation and treatment -- and potentially have been able to avert the tragedy. But officials in other states might not have had that power, a review of state laws on involuntary commitment sugge...

Wall Street Journal: Loughners Downward Spiral
Wall Street Journal: TUCSON, Ariz.—Students and faculty at Pima Community College feared for their safety as Jared Lee Loughner’s increasingly erratic behavior led to a series of encounters with Campus Police in the eight months before he was suspended from school last fall, police reports show. After he was accused of shooting 20 people last Saturday, school officials described his behavior while at Pima as odd and disruptive. But police reports show in chilling detail that the behavi...

Jared Lee Loughner and the Case for Single-Payer
The fallout from the shooting in Arizona has launched a thousand theories about the motives of the 22 year old shooter Jared Lee Loughner ranging from the interesting to the absurd.  Some decry his easy access to a weapon.  Others raise suspicions about a reading list that included the ideological odd couple of the Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf.  Yet, most miss a central point - Jared Lee Loughner, a deeply mentally disturbed young man, may not have been able to help himself ...

Richard Klass: Victims and Imposters
If any further proof of the dysfunction and distortion in the American political scene is needed, the reactions to the Tucson shooting provide conclusive evidence. In short, some of the worst offenders in creating the climate of political vitriol are attempting to don the mantel of Victim hood to deflect criticism of their political invective. The responsible media reported the tragedy and sought to raise broader questions of gun culture, political culture, the interaction of the two and the d...

Aunt: Loughner Used To Be "Beautiful, Loving"
Like this Story? Share it: New revelations have been made in the Jared Lee Loughner investigation including his brush with the law the morning of the shooting. Ben Tracy reports on the growing case against the alleged shooter. With all the evidence against the suspected Tucson shooter Jared Loughner, a Guilty verdict could still prove very difficult. Jan Crawford reports on the latest details of the case. Erica Hill speaks with Jared Lee Loughner's ex-girlfriend Kelsey Hawkes about her shock upo...