Glock Fire

Just talk or real threat? Shooting raises questions about rhetoric
WASHINGTON — When Rep. Gabrielle Giffords found herself targeted for defeat last year with a map showing a rifle's crosshairs over her district, she worried it might incite violence. "When people do that, they've got to realize there's consequences to that action," she said, after Sarah Palin used the crosshairs to tell her followers of 20 House Democrats who should be defeated. There's no evidence that Palin's ad contributed to a gunman's decision Satur...

2007 Giffords Constituent Letter, References to Assassination and Planning Ahead Found in Shooters Safe.
Kind of creepy. (WSJ) — The scene where a congresswoman was shot Saturday was captured on Surveillance video, according to Law Enforcement officials. The video shows Federal Judge John Roll chatting with an aide to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D. Ariz.) moments before the violence erupts, according to officials. Judge Roll was killed in the attack, along with five others. Ms. Giffords remains in critical condition. After the shooting, investigators searched a safe connected to the shooting sus...

Arizona Shooting Victims Include 9-Year-Old Born On 9/11
Victim Christina-Taylor Green Six people were killed and 14 others were injured yesterday after a gunman opened fire on a crowd of people at a political meet-and-greet outside an Arizona Supermarket. Among those killed were several septuagenarians, Arizona's top Federal Judge, a political aide to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, and a 9-year-old girl who was born on September 11, 2001. The 9-year-old, Christina-Taylor Green, was the granddaughter of former Mets and Yankees manager Dallas Green. She wa...

UT Congressman: Security Away from Capitol Hill is a "Mixed Bag"
In the wake of the tragic shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz) many of her colleagues in Congress are reevaluating their security policies. Speaking a day after the incident, Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) told Fox News he's concerned about his safety, especially when his work takes him off Capitol Hill. Chaffetz described Capitol police as doing an "exceptional job, we are told [the U.S. Capitol] is a top Terrorist target and there is adequate security." But back i...

Former Cubs GM Dallas Green's granddaughter killed in AZ shootings
There was a Chicago Cubs Baseball link to the horrendous Arizona shootings that occurred yesterday in Tucson.  The 9/11 child shot to death, Christina-Taylor Green , was the 9 year old daughter of Los Angeles Dodgers scout John Green and the granddaughter of former Phillies pitcher and manager as well as former Cubs General Manager Dallas Green .  Young Christina, a third grader and the only girl on her Little League Baseball team, was at the Tucson shopping plaza where Jared Lee Lough...

The Six Innocent Victims Killed by Gunman Jared Lee Loughner are Named
So much focus has been put on the shooting of US Rep Gabrielle Giffords in the horrendous mass sho oting by gunman Jared Lee Loughner. Thankfully, Giffords was not killed, but is still in critical condition after being shot in the head at close range.  However, sadly as reported at Michelle Malkin.com via MyFoxPhoenix,  six innocent people died yesterday who did nothing more than wake up on a Saturday and try and meet their Congresswoman. Among the dead include a Giffords’ Staffer, a f...

Shooting Fallout: Political Rhetoric Takes The Heat
The shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) has raised concerns about the effect of inflammatory language that has become a steady undercurrent in the nation's political culture. Saturday's Shooting Spree, which killed U.S. District Judge John M. Roll and five others, followed years of hot political debate in Arizona. Both Roll and Giffords had been the subject of threats in recent years. Arizona has become one of the most reliably conservative states, particularly in the de

Inscrutable Writing
Inscrutable Writing by digby This article in Politico is intriguing, although it's hard to know if it has any bearing on what happened yesterday: Jared Lee Loughner’s rants about grammar and mind control track closely to the writings of a Conspiracy theorist who believes that is how the government controls the populace, one leading group says - and the man tells POLITICO he agrees with some of Loughner’s statements. The far-right Activist, David Wynn Miller, said in a telephone intervie

Updates on the Investigation into Jared Loughner
A little more information about Jared Loughner has been released. According to The Wall Street Journal, investigators found a letter sent to Loughner by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords  after he attended a “Congressman on your corner” event in 2007. After the shooting, investigators searched a safe connected to the shooting suspect, Jared Lee Loughner, and found a letter apparently sent to him by Ms. Giffords’s office thanking him for previously attending a similar “Congress o...

Lawmakers Plan Security Review, No Votes Next Week In Wake of Gabrielle Giffords Shoothing
 ABC's Jonathan Karl Reports:   This afternoon the House leadership, including John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi, held an extraordinary bi-partisan call to brief members on the Arizona shooting and the Congressional response.      Speaker Boehner announced there will be a bi-partisan security briefing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday by the Capitol Police, Sergeant at Arms and FBI.   Also on Wednesday, the House will convene to pass a resolution honoring Gabrielle...

Pelosi Leads Moment of Silence for Shooting Victims
Nancy Pelosi led a moment of silence Saturday, for the Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords who was shot in the head earlier that day. At a planned event in San Francisco, Pelosi said Giffords is a "brilliant and patriotic American," according to the Associated Press. Giffords was hospitalized after being shot at a public event in Tucson, Arizona. The congresswoman is in critical condition after undergoing surgery Sunday morning. Doctors are optimistic for her survival, stating th...

Tucson's Victims: Young And Old, Public Servants And Citizens
What is this? An undated family photo of Christina Taylor Greene. An undated family photo of Christina Taylor Greene. The dead Victims of the Tuscon shooting attack represented a range of people that might be found at any congressional constituents' event. They included a nine-year old girl just elected to her school council who wanted to see a real politician close up; a Federal Judge who happened to be nearby and stopped to see his friend the congresswoman; a congressional aide responsibl...

20-year-old Intern Hailed as Hero
Daniel Hernandez had been U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' intern for five days when she was shot Saturday outside Tucson. The junior at the University of Arizona was helping check people in at the "Congress on Your Corner" event when he heard gunfire. He was about 30 feet from the congresswoman. When the shots began, he ran toward them. "I don't even know if the gunfire had stopped," he said Saturday night as he kept a vigil at the University Medical Center cafeteria, gathered near a TV watching t...

RIP, Judge John Roll
RIP, Judge John Roll A news release posted at the U.S. District Court of Arizona: The U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona has suffered a grievous loss today with the untimely death of Chief Judge John M. Roll, who was shot and killed when a gunman opened fire on a crowd at an event hosted by Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, Arizona. Judge Roll was appointed to the federal bench in 1991, and served as chief judge of the district since 2006. The devoted husband, father of ...

The Domestic Terrorists Victims in Arizona
The homegrown Terrorist’s name is Jared Lougher. He killed 6 people, wounded 13 more. Including the attempted Assassination of an United States Congresswoman. And the Assassination of a Federal Judge. Here are the stories of those that he murdered in cold blood. This post will be updated. Greene is one of six killed in front of a Safeway Grocery Store while awaiting to talk to Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords who had set up a townhall-style meet and greet event. Five people died at the sce...

Arizona shooting dead: Judge John Roll
Judge John Roll, 63, was the chief US judge for Arizona. He had walked over to Congresswoman Giffords to say hello when the gunman began shooting....

Dem planning bill that would outlaw threatening lawmakers
Rep. Robert Brady (D-Pa.) reportedly plans to introduce Legislation that would make it a federal crime to use language or symbols that could be perceived as threatening or inciting violence against a federal official or member of Congress. Brady told CNN that he wants federal lawmakers and officials to have the same protections against threat currently provided to the president. His call comes one day after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was shot, along with 19 other people, at a public eve...

This afternoon: Marathon Pundit on Teri O'Brien's Blog Talk Radio Show
This afternoon I will be a guest on Teri O'Brien's Blog Talk Radio show. Each Sunday from 4pm-6pm Central, O'Brien enlightens the planet with conservative wisdom. Tune in here. Visit Teri's site here, and you can follow O'Brien on Twitter here. Oh yes, please visit her Facebook page. See you there!...

DHS links Arizona shooter Loughner with white supremacist American Renaissance
 The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a memo linking Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shooter Jared Lee Loughner with the anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, white supremacist Hate Group American Renaissance. According to a Law Enforcement memo based on information provided by DHS and obtained by Fox News, Jared Loughner, the alleged shooter of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, may have been influenced by a pro-white Racist organization that pu...

3 helped subdue man who killed 6 at Arizona store
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Three people helped subdue a gunman accused of attempting to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killing six people at a political event in Arizona. Pima Co. Sheriff Clarence Dupnik says Patricia Maisch (MAYSH) was waiting in line with her husband to get a photo with Giffords. When the shooting started, she ran up to the suspect and grabbed the empty magazine, then grabbed a full magazine as he was loading it into the gun. Two men helped subdue the suspect — ...

Father on Daughter's Death in Tucson Shooting
John Green "feels lots of anger" after losing his 9-year-old daughter Christina to a shooting in Tuscon, Ariz that took the lives of five other people and injured Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. 911 tapes released record witnesses helping injured Victims in the Tucson shooting that killed six people and injured Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. 911 tapes released record many witnesses calling in to report the Tucson shooting that killed six people and injured Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. ...

The LiberalOasis Radio Show: Frothy Mix Edition
Republicans waste no time breaking their own Budget rules and bluffing about the Debt ceiling. Traci Olsen rings in the new year with the Stabby Five. And we anxiously await Santorum '12. You can download the Podcast at these links: (iTunes / XML feed / MP3). Or you can simply listen below. ...

Breeding Men Who Riot
James Delingpole of the London Telegraph does not mince words: “The Arizona shootings were like Kwanzaa come early for America’s liberal fascists:” How sick do you have to be to start making political capital out of the killing of six people including a nine-year old girl, long before anyone has the remotest clue what the murderer’s motives were, or his political affiliations, or his state of mind? Not sick at all, to judge by the response of so many US Tweeters in the imme...

Ariz. shooting: Has political rhetoric gone too far?
WASHINGTON — Has the nation's harsh political Rhetoric become more than just talk? The attempted Assassination of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords as she talked to voters outside a Grocery Store in Tucson fueled a debate Sunday over whether the sharp Partisanship and anti-government language that now mark American politics have created a climate that makes violence against public officials more likely. "You can't say they're just words; they have consequences," South Carolina Rep. James Cly...

Doctors optimistic of congresswoman's survival
Sheldon Alberts, Washington Correspondent, Postmedia News · Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011 WASHINGTON — Arizona doctors caring for Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Sunday said they remained “cautiously optimistic” about her chances of recovery and survival from a devastating gunshot to the head. As police prepared charges against the 22-year-old suspect in Saturday’s Shooting Spree, surgeons at Tucson’s University Medical Center described Ms. Giffords’ conditio...