Libertarian Party condemns shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords

Democrats move to limit guns, threatening language in shooting's wake
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., plans to introduce a bill that would ban high-capacity ammunition clips. Reacting to the assasination attempt on one of their own, two House members on Monday said they will introduce Legislation that would ban certain amunition clips and make it illegal to threaten a federal official, both of which they say contributed to the mass casualties in a shooting rampage in Tuscson over the weekend. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., plans to introduce a bill that would ban h...

U.S. public says Giffords shooting, rhetoric unrelated
Most Americans see no relation between the attempted Assassination of congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the political tactic of lacing vitriolic Rhetoric with Firearms analogies. That’s the conclusion of a CBS News poll that found most Republicans (69 pct), most Independents (56 pct) and even a plurality of Democrats (49 pct) believe the two phenomena unrelated. Those numbers add up to 57 percent of Americans overall — a true majority though not quite big enough to break a Se...

Citing Arizona, Va. delegate proposes banning firearms in State Capitol
A Virginia delegate is introducing a bill to ban Firearms from the State Capitol and General Assembly Building in response to the shooting rampage in Arizona that left a U.S. Congresswoman in critically wounded. Del. Patrick A. Hope (D-Arlington) will propose that the General Assembly consider the ban when it convenes for its annual legislative session Wednesday. "The tragedy this weekend in Tucson should cause all public officials to re-examine the safety and security of themselves, their staf...

Hate Speech the Rights Magic Bullet (Guest Voice)
Hate Speech the Right’s Magic Bullet by Michael Winship The Russian playwright Anton Chekhov had a rule: if you show a gun in the first act, by the time the curtain falls, it has to go off. For weeks and months, that gun, the weapon of angry Rhetoric and intemperate rabblerousing, has been cocked and loaded in plain view on the American stage; Saturday morning outside a Shopping Mall in Tucson, Arizona, it went off again and again and again. The target, Gabrielle Giffords, a member of the Un...

Libertarian Party condemns shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords
Press Release from Libertarian Party national HQ: WASHINGTON - Mark Hinkle, Chair of the Libertarian Party, issued a statement condemning the shooting of Congressional Representative Gabrielle Giffords, and others in Tucson, Arizona. According to reports, Federal Judge John Roll and five others were killed in the shooting, and several others were seriously wounded. “The Libertarian Party condemns the shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords and others today. We are saddened by th...

A clear nut-burger does it again! The Arizona Shooting
By Jon A. Underwood, CBPO Ret. Just what law abiding, gun owner’s need, an alleged Iraq or Afghan Vet, (yet to be verified) opens fire at an outreach hosted by an US representative for Arizona, located at a shopping center. The Representative of Congressional District 8, Gabrielle (gabby) Gifford was shot. A staunch supporter of a secure border, anti-smuggling, and the Second Amendment. Against SB1070, but not a supporter of Amnesty, nor of the filing of the Federal Lawsuit initiated by the ...

No Signs Obama Will Shift On Gun Control After Giffords Shooting
Virtually since the Obama Administration took office, the White House has avoided touching the third-rail issue of Gun Control with a 10-foot pole. So will the mass shooting in Arizona that gravely injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) and killed six others (including a Federal Judge) change their approach? Gun control advocates hope so. Kristen Rand, legislative director of the Violence Policy Center in Washington, D.C., said in an interview that banning the high-capacity clips (the type use...

Neighbor: Loughner's parents in shock
TUCSON, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- The parents of a Tucson man accused of killing six people and wounding 14 others are in deep shock and have secluded themselves in their home, a neighbor said. Randy and Amy Loughner returned home from grocery shopping Saturday to learn their only child, Jared Lee Loughner, 22, had been arrested for the Shooting Spree at a political event for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday. Neighbor Wayne Smith told the newspaper he broke the new...

Judges Purpose in Seeing Giffords Could Be Legally Significant
Was U.S. District Court Judge John M. Roll just being sociable when he dropped by an appearance by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) in Tucson on Saturday, or was he planning to discuss official business? Does it even matter, given the horror of that morning? Yes, it could matter, legally speaking. At first glance, Roll’s state of mind might appear irrelevant, given the tragedy that unfolded on Saturday morning, when Roll was shot dead and Giffords gravely wounded in a rampage that killed ...

CBS Poll: By 57% to 32% Margin Americans Say Political Rhetoric Had Nothing to do With Giffords Shooting
MSM Propaganda FAIL. (The Hill)- Almost 60 percent of the public believes that heated political Rhetoric has nothing to do with an Arizona Shooting Spree that gravely wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) and killed a Federal Judge. Many pundits and lawmakers have keyed in on political vitriol as a potential contributing factor to the shootings allegedly carried out by Jared Lee Loughner, a 22-year-old Tucson man who faces five federal Felony Charges. Loughner’s writings and videos suggest a...

In They Are Who We Thought They Were News..
I had put this in the replies in yesterday’s Afternoon Open Thread, but I thought about it, and decided to FP it. In an apparent effort to distance themselves from the Mass Shootings in Arizona over the weekend, the Tea Party Express sent out an email to supporters proclaiming that they “won’t be silenced” — and asking for contributions. Earlier today, TPE leader Sal Russo went on Fox News and lamented how “revolting and disgusting the left is for trying to as...

U.S. majority doesn't blame rhetoric for Giffords shooting
WASHINGTON | Tue Jan 11, 2011 10:18am EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A majority of Americans reject the view that heated political Rhetoric was a factor in the weekend shootings in Arizona which killed six and critically wounded a congresswoman, a CBS News said on Tuesday. Since the Saturday incident in which Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords was shot at point-blank range, various politicians and commentators have said a climate in which strong language and ideological polarization is com...

Gabrielle Giffords shootings: Congresswoman proposes tightening of gun laws
A Democratic Party congresswoman has pledged to introduce Legislation that would limit the use of high-capacity ammunition magazines, as advocates of Gun Control insisted that the US had to stiffen its laws in the wake of the Mass Shooting in Arizona....

Group leader says 'God sent' Ariz. shooter
TUCSON, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- The leader of a Kansas sect of self-proclaimed Baptists says "God sent" the man accused of shooting 20 people in Arizona, killing six of them. In a telephone interview with the New Times in Phoenix, Shirley Phelps-Roper, a leader of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, said 22-year-old Jared Loughner acted on God's instructions. "God sent the shooter -- that guy's bat-[expletive] crazy -- but God sent him," she said. The congregation that publicizes Protests at U.S. s...

Moment of silence
President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama emerged from the White House together to undertake a solemn duty: leading the nation in a moment of silence after the tragedy of Tuscon. It was powerful in its simplicity. No words. No action, except for the three dings of a chime by a Marine. At the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, members of Congress covered the steps of the Capitol in similar observance. The same at the Supreme Court. The same at the scene of the crime that has provoked long-over...

Free speech and bullets
First, let me say I believe absolutely in the First Amendment to the Constitution, which says “Congress shall make no law … abridging the Freedom of Speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” Don’t wait for a “but,” or an “except,” or “in some cases.” I don’t have one. Second, at least one idea arising from the tragic, despicable and appar...

Tea Party Express Fundraises Off Giffords Shooting: 'Tea Party Won't Be Silenced'
In an apparent effort to distance themselves from the Mass Shootings in Arizona over the weekend, the Tea Party Express sent out an email to supporters proclaiming that they "won't be silenced" -- and asking for contributions. Earlier today, TPE leader Sal Russo went on Fox News and lamented how "revolting and disgusting the left is for trying to associate the tea party with violence like this." This latest email emphasizes how "horrified" the TPE was to hear about the shootings, which includ...

Suspect in Giffords shooting had prior graffiti arrest
Source: https://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/01/10/20110... Jared Loughner, the suspect in a Mass Shooting that left Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords critically wounded, was cited in October 2008 for criminal damage-graffiti after someone saw him using a marker to deface a Street Sign with symbols, reports from the Marana Police Department and Marana Municipal Court show. He denied any involvement during an initial interview with a Police Officer, but in a second interview, he told a pol...

Left-wing Nutbag Kills Bush-Appointed Judge
Now there is a headline you won’t see in the lamestream media, blogs on the left or MSNBC. Instead, Chris Matthews is sure that a guy whose favorite book was the Communist Manifesto was inspired by… Sharron Angle.  More on that, later. Also basically unmentioned is the name of Federal Judge John Roll who was killed in the attack.  Judge Roll was appointed to the bench by George H.W. Bush.  I had to Google search today to remind myself of his name, to write this.  (The Los A

The Note: 2012 Politics Gets Tangled In Arizona Shooting Aftermath
By MICHAEL FALCONE and AMY WALTER The place that Sarah Palin has occupied in the debate about civility in politics in the aftermath of Saturday’s shooting in Arizona that left six people dead has inevitably dragged other potential 2012 contenders into the discussion. One of the first to join the fray is former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, whose long-planned book tour kicks off this week. Pawlenty weighed in on the swirling Controversy about the appropriateness of Palin’s use of rifle cro...

CBS Poll: Nearly Six In Ten Say Heated Rhetoric Unrelated To AZ Shooting
In a CBS poll released this morning, almost 60% of Americans said they don't think strong political Rhetoric is to blame for Saturday's shooting rampage in Tucson, Arizona that left six dead and wounded over a dozen others, including Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. In the poll, 57% of respondents said that intense political discourse had nothing to do with the attack, versus 32% who said that it was a contributing factor to the shooting. By political demographics, Republicans were less inc...

DeLay sentenced to 3 years in prison
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, known to his colleagues as "the Hammer," was sentenced Monday to three years in Prison after his November conviction on Money Laundering and Conspiracy charges in the illegal funneling of corporate cash to Texas political Candidates in 2002. Once one of the Most Powerful and feared Republicans in Congress, DeLay was sentenced by Senior Judge Pat Priest to the three-year term on the Conspiracy charge and was given five years on the money-laundering convicti...

Julian Assange: Gabrielle Giffords Parallels Made Over 'Violent Rhetoric'
Though he came across more strident than sympathetic, Julian Assange joined the ranks of public officials to offer words over the grisly Arizona shooting that left six dead and Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition. In a statement issued ahead of Assange's Tuesday court hearing in London, where he is fighting Extradition to Sweden on Rape charges, the Wikileaks founder drew parallels between his own experience and that of Giffords, whose shooting launched a nationwi...

GOP Rep. Allen West: I Have No Plans to Tone Down My Strong Language in Wake of Giffords Shooting
Stand strong. (Palm Beach Post)-  U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Plantation, this morning criticized “political opportunism” in the wake of Saturday’s shooting of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and said he has no plans to tone down his own “stronger language.” Within hours of the shooting that killed six and critically injured Giffords, some commentators placed the massacre in the context of the nation’s heated political climate and blamed the Tea Party...

Neighbor says Ariz. suspect's parents blame selves
A neighbor says the parents of the suspect in Saturday's Shooting Spree in Tucson are devastated and guilt-ridden. Jared Loughner (LAWF'-nuhr) appeared in court Monday on federal charges that he tried to assassinate U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed a Federal Judge. He is also accused of killing five others and wounding or injuring 13 others. Wayne Smith, who lives across the street from the family, said Randy and Amy Loughner blame themselves. Smith said he told the couple they didn't fai...