Lautenberg: 'We Don't Have More Madmen, We Have More Guns' (VIDEO)

Gun Owners of America Fights To Preserve The Next Jared Lee Loughner's Right To Purchase Firearms
If any consensus has emerged about the tragic shootings in Tucson last weekend, it is that Jared Lee Loughner, or anyone with a similar history of dangerous Mental Illness, should not have been able to purchase a gun. But that consensus would have to exclude the right-wing gun Lobbyist organization Gun Owners of America (GOA), which continues to fight any measure aimed at preventing the dangerously mentally ill from purchasing Firearms. Since the Gun Control Act of 1968, there have been legal m...

Emotional House pays tribute to Arizona victims
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama walk toward the Marine One Helicopter as they leave the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011, as they travel to Tucson, Ariz., for a memorial service where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. and others were shot in a shooting rampage that left six people dead. Grief-stricken members of Congress paid tribute Wednesday to the Victims of the Tucson shooting rampage amid consultations with security advisers on how they can protect th...

GOP Leaders: We oppose Rep. King's new gun control idea
The Republicans may just have to agree to disagree. House Speaker John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) are against a new gun-control proposal put forth by a fellow GOPer in response to the Tucson shootings. Rep. Peter King (R-L.I.), chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, said Tuesday that he'd introduce a new bill that bars anyone from carrying a gun within 1,000 feet of a federal official. He believes the Legislation could have prevented the Jan. 8 Arizona shooting...

Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ): We Don't Have More Madmen, We Have More Guns
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Boehner rejects new gun regulation
Image by Getty Images via @daylife The Hill: Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is rejecting gun-control Legislation offered by the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee in response to the weekend shootings of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and 19 others in Arizona. Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.) announced plans Tuesday to introduce Legislation prohibiting people from carrying guns within 1,000 feet of members of Congress. ...How are you going to enforce a moving 1,000 feet exclusion zone again...

Bernie Sanders: Send me money or more people will die [Reader Post]
There’s always one. Following a tragedy it can be expected that the left will take advantage of it to further a political agenda and that is exactly what happened. In the wake of the event in Tucson member of both parties in Congress put a stop to their political activities out of respect for Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Lawmakers had scheduled various Fundraisers and meet-and-greet events with Lobbyists and other Donors this week, but those were canceled as Democrats and Republicans ...

Lets Have A Rational Conversation About Guns
In the wake of the Tucson carnage, there has been considerable discussion here and elsewhere about Gun Possession and carry laws. Some have speculated that private Gun Possession would have reduced the death and injury toll in Tucson. Others have speculated that the toll would have increased with the presence of additional guns. What both sides have in common is that they are speculating. As a backdrop for this discussion, let’s begin with a thumbnail look at the current state of gun law and ...

Officers stopped suspect on day of Ariz. shooting
(01-12) 10:55 PST Tucson, Ariz. (AP) -- In the hours before the Assassination attempt against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Jared Loughner went to Walmart, was pulled over for running a red light and ran from his father after an angry confrontation. Investigators are piecing together the timeline of Loughner's frenzied morning before the attack that killed six. "What he did and the morning before the shooting, we're just trying to find all that out," said sheriff's Capt. Chris Nanos. Nanos wouldn't...

Giffords, Loughner, and Palin
Gabrielle Giffords’s office released a photo, from her Hospital room, of her husband, Captain Mark Kelly, holding her hand. (Doing so, as I wrote earlier this week, is often the crucial thing.) One of her doctors, Peter Rhee, told reporters that he’s now certain she will survive, in the short run, though “I can’t tell whether she’s going to be in a vegetative state.” It’s her left hand you see in the picture, the one that wore the Wedding Ring that Kelly...

Rush Limbaugh Blasts Critics Linking Talk Radio to Shootings...
Yahoo! Buzz Rush Limbaugh defended himself against suggestions that the heated Rhetoric sometimes found on political programs influenced the shootings in Arizona. Since the violent incident last weekend, a debate has erupted in the media about whether political Talk Shows influenced Jared Lee Loughner, the man accused of killing six people in Arizona and critically wounding Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Talking about Loughner on his radio program, Limbaugh said, “We know he listened to heavy me...

Loughner Was Stopped, Warned About Running Red Light Saturday Morning
What is this? Neighbors watch the media outside the Loughner home in Tucson. Neighbors watch the media outside the Loughner home in Tucson. "A wildlife officer pulled over the suspect in the Assassination attempt against an Arizona congresswoman less than three hours before the deadly attack," the Associated Press writes. "Jared Loughner ran a red light but was let off with a warning at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, the Arizona Game and Fish Department said. The officer took Loughner's driver's license an...

Loughner Was Stopped, Warned About Running Red Light Saturday Morning
What is this? Neighbors watch the media outside the Loughner home in Tucson. Neighbors watch the media outside the Loughner home in Tucson. "A wildlife officer pulled over the suspect in the Assassination attempt against an Arizona congresswoman less than three hours before the deadly attack," the Associated Press writes. "Jared Loughner ran a red light but was let off with a warning at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, the Arizona Game and Fish Department said. The officer took Loughner's driver's license an...

Palin denounces critics over shootings
In a forceful and unapologetic statement released early Wednesday, Sarah Palin dismissed critics who had suggested that the former Alaska Governor's Firearms-infused Rhetoric contributed to the shootings in Tucson that killed six and wounded 14, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, contending they "incite the hatred and violence they purport to condemn." "Like many, I've spent the past few days reflecting on what happened and praying for guidance," Palin said. "After this shocking tragedy, I...

Officers Stopped Suspect on Day of Ariz. Shooting
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP)-- The suspect in a deadly Arizona shooting ran a red light and was stopped by a wildlife officer less than three hours before the attack that wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The Arizona Game and Fish Department says an officer stopped Jared Loughner at about 7:30 a.m. Saturday. 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, ...

The Political Consequences of Violence
I believe that The New Yorker’s George Packer has mistaken the meaning of a line in my column this week. He writes: Douthat wrote, in the spirit of phony equivalence, “If overheated Rhetoric and martial imagery really led inexorably to Murder, then both parties would belong in the dock,” but also this: “the Attempted Murder of a Democratic congresswoman is a potential gift to Liberalism.” In other words, everyone goes over the line now and then, no one actually want...

Jon Stewart, Reactionary
The clearest sign of the political cowardice and intellectual impotence of liberal America is its collective worship of Jon Stewart. Once upon a time, The Daily Show was probably funny - that’s presumably why it appears on Comedy Central. But Stewart long ago turned into the Oprah Winfrey for urban hipsters, his self-appointment as the arbiter-in-chief of smirking moderation masking a profoundly reactionary worldview. Stewart is reaping accolades this week for his handling on Monday night of...

Friend claims that Jared Loughner didnt watch television or listen to talk radio
  Shortly after Jared Loughner shot and killed six people while wounding dozens of others in Arizona the media went on a witch-hunt to see where they could lay the blame for Loughner’s actions. Personally, I would have blamed Jared Loughner and I suppose the media would have also if they weren’t being driven by their agenda.   It didn’t take long for the media to find their target and set their sights on Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, conservative t...

Precedent for the Consoler-in-Chief
Updated at 10:02 a.m. on January 12. On Wednesday night, when President Obama addresses what is sure to be a packed crowd at the McKale Memorial Center at the University of Arizona, his words will reverberate not only in grieving Tucson but also across the country. Whether the president can deliver a Speech worthy of the moment -- the first attempted Assassination of a female member of Congress, and the Murder of six bystanders -- remains to be seen. MORE FROM NATIONAL JOURNAL: Walled-Off Washi...

Palin Accuses Critics of 'Blood Libel' (updated)
Far from backing down, Sarah Palin defended herself today against critics who linked her Rhetoric to the Arizona shootings, accusing them of the long-condemned anti-Semitic slur "blood Libel." Palin opponents noted soon after the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) that left six people dead that Palin had posted a map on her website last fall with gun sights on 20 districts, including Giffords'. She announced it with a tweet: "Don't Retreat, Instead - RELOAD!&quo...;

Palin's blood libel comment gets Dems' blood boiling
Far from backing down, Sarah Palin defended herself today against critics who linked her Rhetoric to the Arizona shootings,  accusing them of the long-condemned anti-Semitic slur "blood Libel." Palin opponents noted soon after the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) that left six people dead that Palin had posted a map on her website last fall with gun sights on 20 districts, including Giffords'. She announced it with a tweet: "Don't Retreat, Instead - RELOAD!" In her defense, Palin...

Predictable: Lefty Politico Blogger Upset Palin Used Word Blood Libel
someothername on Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-ementia) Jumps On The Lieberal Gun Control Bandwagon… Larry7 (prev. just Larry) on Someone Tell Gore it’s Snowing in 49 States Today, Including Hawaii commieobamie on Holy Throwdown! First, There Was International Burn A Koran Day She lives in their heads, rent free....

Giffords "making more spontaneous movements," doctor says
By Tim Gaynor TUCSON | Wed Jan 12, 2011 1:43pm EST TUCSON (Reuters) - Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, gravely injured in a shooting rampage, is "making more spontaneous movements" and is able to feel her bullet wounds with her hands, a doctor treating her said on Wednesday. Giffords was shot through the head by a gunman who raked a meeting with semi-automatic pistol fire in Tucson on Saturday, killing six people including a federal judge, a nine-year-old girl and one of Giffords' aides. "Sh...

Restricting freedom after Tucson shooting will galvanize gun owners
Proposals by lawmakers following the shooting of a Congresswoman in Tucson reveal a broad legislative  intent to clamp down on personal liberties and ratchet up on state controls. Foremost in these efforts are self-styled “Progressives,” who, in true Orwellian style, have advocated stepping up the freedom regression on several fronts. As we noted in this column on Monday, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy and her ilk are planning to introduce new citizen disarmament edicts, and Rep. Robert ...

House Pays Tribute to Shooting Victims
WASHINGTON—The House of Representatives paid tribute to one of its own Wednesday with a resolution honoring Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the 19 others shot Saturday in Arizona. "Today we are called to mourn," Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) said as he opened six hours of debate on a resolution honoring the six who died and the 14 injured in Tucson. "These are difficult hours for our country." The House took up its resolution on a day of tributes for Ms. Giffords, who remains hosp...

Palin criticized for using 'blood libel'
(CNN) - The Anti-Defamation League, the organization that combats Anti-Semitism, says Sarah Palin should have used a different phrase than "blood Libel" to characterize attempts to link her discourse to the Arizona shootings, the latest in a series of criticisms leveled at the former Alaska Governor Monday over her use of the Controversial term. "We wish that Palin had not invoked the phrase "blood-libel" in reference to the actions of Journalists and pundits in placing blame for the shoot...