Man Who Helped Tackle Arizona Shooter: 'Something Had To Be Done'

Sen. McCain cutting trip short to attend Memorial service in Tucson
According to ABC News’, Matthew Jaffe, Sen. John McCain is cutting short a Congressional trip to Latin America to return to his home state of Arizona for Wednesday’s memorial service for the Victims of last weekend’s Tucson shooting. McCain and his wife Cindy will both attend the memorial service, according to the senator’s spokeswoman Brooke Buchanan. McCain left last Friday with Sen. John Barrasso on a week-long trip to Colombia, Brazil, Chile, Panama and Mexico, but no...

Arizonans Rally to Prevent Westboro Church Disruption of Shooting Victims' Funerals
Disgusted Arizona residents are locking arms to stop the Westboro Baptist Church from disrupting the Funerals for Victims of Saturday's shooting in Tucson, with bikers and others organizing a massive counter-protest and state lawmakers fast-tracking a bill to hamstring the so-called church. The Kansas-based Westboro church is notorious for showing up at the Funerals of dead Soldiers and other high-profile gatherings wielding inflammatory anti-gay signs. But when the church announced it would pic...

9-Year-Old Shot While Holding Hands with Neighbor
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 By Alicia Chang, Associated Press A parent and a Student leave a note at a make-shift memorial at Mesa Verde Elementary School in Tucson, Ariz., Monday, Jan. 10, 2011. Christina Green, 9, a Student at Mesa Verde Elementary School, was shot and killed during a Speech given by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., at a local Supermarket Saturday. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson) Tucson, Ariz. (AP) - The husband of a woman injured in a deadly Arizona shooting says his wife w...

Loughner shoots Palin and Angles political careers to death
It may be weeks, months or perhaps never that we find out what really motivated 22 year-old  Jared Lee Loughner to purchase a 9 mm gun with an extended clip and Murder real people in what he calls “conscience dreaming” [sic]. While he is being assessed, should we wonder why Sarah Palin removed her “crosshairs map” hours after six people were slaughtered and fourteen wounded in a spate of violence?      While a person as deranged as Loughner c...

Arizona leaders play blame-game, but get it wrong
While investigators continue to investigate the tragic shooting that took place in Tucson last Saturday, leaders in Arizona have eagerly jumped on the main stream media’s overblown, detrimental, blame- game wagon. Only hours after the shooting took place, Pima County Sheriff, Clarence Dupnik argued that the “vitriol” of the Country's harshly polarized political climate was partly to blame, arguing that “unbalanced individuals are uniquely "susceptible" to vitriol.” ...

Arizona Citizens And Bikers Prepare to Face Off Against Westboro
Westboro Baptist Church, the deranged folks led by Fred Phelps, are at it again, this time praising Jared Lee Loughner, the shooter from the Arizona massacre that killed six innocents and injured many more. Phelps and his merry band of hate filled followers are planning to come to Arizona to Protest outside of the youngest Victim of Saturday's shooting, nine year old Christina Green's Funeral. Arizona citizens and bikers from all around are planning on placing themselves as human buffers to ke...

Democrats that are politicizing Arizona tragedy have ulterior motives
The tragic shootings in Arizona on Saturday that left a nine-year-old girl dead and Congresswoman Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords severely wounded should have been a time to put politics aside and honor the Victims. Instead, many people on the left are capitalizing on this opportunity to blame Conservatives and the lack of Gun Control as contributing the tragedy. Let’s take Democratic Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik for example. Instead of giving a fact-based Press Conference Sa...

10 Things You Didn't Know About Gabrielle Giffords
1. Gabrielle Giffords was born in Tucson, Ariz. On June 8, 1970 to Gloria, an art conservator, and Spencer Giffords who served on the School Board district and ran the family's auto and tire business, El Campo Tire, Inc. 2. After graduating with a degree in Latin American history and sociology from Scripps College in Claremont, Calif. in 1993, Giffords studied in Mexico on a Fulbright Scholarship. 3. Giffords graduated from Cornell University in 1996 with a master's degree in regional planning...

Doctor: Giffords breathing on her own after attack
(01-11) 09:40 PST Tucson, Ariz. (AP) -- Doctors say an Arizona congresswoman is breathing on her own after being shot in the head. Dr. Michael Lemole, Giffords' neurosurgeon, says they've left a breathing tube in Rep. Gabrielle Giffords to protect her airway, but the congresswoman is drawing breaths on her own. She's alert and responding to doctors. Six people are still hospitalized after the shooting Saturday at a Tucson grocery store. The attack killed six and injured 14 others. Giffords, a ...

Doctor: Rep. Giffords breathing on her own after being shot
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Doctors say an Arizona congresswoman is breathing on her own after being shot in the head. Dr. Michael Lemole, Giffords' neurosurgeon, says they've left a breathing tube in Rep. Gabrielle Giffords to protect her airway, but the congresswoman is drawing breaths on her own. She's alert and responding to doctors. Six people are still hospitalized after the shooting Saturday at a Tucson Grocery Store. The attack killed six and injured 14 others. Giffords, a three-term Dem...

McCain to return from overseas trip to attend memorial service
Arizona Sen. John McCain (R) will return from a congressional delegation trip to attend a memorial service for the Victims of a Shooting Spree in his home state that resulted in the wounding of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D).  Brooke Buchanan, a spokeswoman for McCain, told The Hill he is cutting his trip short to go to the memorial in Tucson, Ariz., where the shooting took place. McCain is traveling in South America with his Senate GOP colleague Tom Barrasso (Wyo.) The two were scheduled to vi...

Mental Health Care, Not Political Blame
In the wake of the Arizona shootings, it has been disturbing to see many politicians, Journalists, and even a sheriff exploit a national tragedy for political purposes. And, in so doing, many have set themselves up as Mental Health experts, explaining to the public that political debate and Rhetoric caused a likely psychotic suspect, Jared Loughner, to kill and injure innocent people. This is especially alarming when we consider that those who are public servants might, instead, focus their ef...

Will the Gun Lobby win again?
After tragedies like Tucson, the NRA has moved to block new Gun Laws—laws that Peter Stone, of the Center for Public Integrity, says would have saved lives by blocking the sale of high-capacity magazines used by the gunman. The Killing Spree by an Arizona man wielding a semiautomatic pistol with a high-capacity magazine raises the prospect of a fresh debate on whether the country needs tougher Gun Controls. But if history is any guide, the National Rifle Association will successfully fight...

The Giffords Resolution
House Republicans have unveiled the text of their resolution addressing the shooting in Tuscon, AZ over the weekend that left six people dead and wounded many others, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords [D, AZ-8] who remains in critical condition. The resolution, which is offered by Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner [R, OH-8], will be voted on by the House Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. The full text of the resolution is below. Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect t...

At Tucson memorial service, Obama to speak of national unity in wake of tragedy
Tomorrow at 6PM Arizona time, 8PM Eastern, President Obama will speak at the memorial service for Victims of Saturday's shooting in Tucson. His remarks haven't been released, but yesterday he offered a glimpse of what he will say: "All of us are still grieving and in shock from the tragedy that took place," Obama said Monday, calling for healing and sidestepping any potentially divisive issues. He is to travel to Tucson, Ariz., on Wednesday to speak at a memorial service for the victims, the Wh...

The Arizona Shootings and Political Discourse
Sometimes, the English language is too small to convey appropriate thoughts. Such is the case with the Arizona shootings. Many writers and speakers have said many things. I have been intellectually and emotionally challenged in attempting to understand all points of view that have been offered thus far on the causes of the weekend shooting in a Grocery Store Parking Lot in Tucson. That Parking Lot was suppose to have been the site for one of the most pristine and direct examples of our democrati...

Which Path Will Our Nation Choose In Dealing With The Arizona Shooting?
There are grown up and constructive reactions to the tragic Arizona shooting. And then there are the puerile and destructive reactions. So far, President Obama has chosen the high road, and shown grace and dignity in this time of sorrow. Let’s hope that he goes tomorrow to the memorial service for the fallen in Arizona with the intent to help heal the hearts of the mourners. He should continue to condemn violence, and lay the blame where it belongs. The alleged shooter, Jared Lee Loug...

Reid praised Arizona sheriff in 2008 speech
In a floor Speech nearly three years ago, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid praised the sheriff investigating the deadly Arizona Shooting Spree who has faced criticism from the right.  Reid (D-Nev.) took to the Senate floor on April 15, 2008 to praise the "truly commendable" 50-year Law Enforcement career of Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik.  "Clarence Dupnik is known as a man of action, integrity, and innovation," Reid said. "These skills have been invaluable to his 50 years of service t...

Congress Prays for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords
Saturday's shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords prompted Congressional officials to schedule a special briefing to review security issues. See photos of the Gabrielle Giffords Shooting in Arizona. Take the poll: Is Political Rhetoric to Blame for Arizona Shooting? See who in Congress gets the most from Gun Rights groups. ...

After Arizona shooting, how can Congress heal the division? Break bread together.
The shooting of Gabrielle Giffords (D) and bystanders in Arizona seems to be the worst symptom of the division and disdain that dominate politics. There was a time when members of Congress not only reached across the aisle, but shared meals together. They must commit to break bread together again - to heal the wounds in DC, and set an example for a grieving nation....

Gun control debate follows Arizona shooting
The National Rifle Association and Gun Rights advocates are trying to counter a new push for Gun Control in light of the Arizona shootings. The National Review is already taking issue with claims that had the federal assault-weapons ban not been allowed to expire in 2004, the shooter in Arizona would not have been able to buy the 31-round ammunition magazine for his gun. Not true, says the National Review’s Kevin D. Williamson. Under the old ban, Williamson said the 9mm Glock 19 pistol tha...

Gabrielle Giffords Has 100 Percent Chance of Survival, Says Doctor
​Dr. Peter Rhee, the medical director for Tucson's University Medical Center's trauma center, has said that Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has a "100 percent" chance of survival. "As a physician I'm going to get into a lot of trouble for this, but her prognosis for survival is 100 percent, as far as it being short term," he told a British TV station, via Politico. "Hopefully she'll live to be 95 years old." Meanwhile, the Hospital's chief of Neurosurgery Dr. Michael Lemole sa...

Palin Gets That Tucson Wasnt About Politics, Obama Doesnt
In the New York Times today Sarah Palin is being criticized for not being more out-front in her defense of herself in the wake of the Tucson shootings over the weekend. The paper suggests that Palin is staying “in her digital comfort zone” choosing to react primarily through Facebook and Twitter. But maybe Palin understands that this isn’t political, and that even though many of her political enemies have absurdly attempted to tie her to the attack, I think she also realizes th...

Absurd fingerpointing continues in wake of Arizona shooting
As more become clear about Jared Loughner, the facts seem to mean less and less for those seeking to turn this tragedy into a political witch hunt. It appears that Loughner, had an obsession with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) dating back to 2007 - before Sarah Palin or the Tea Party movement came on the national scene, and the warning signs that Loughner was an unstable person had been ignored; even by police. And while the debate on Loughner’s political leanings is still raging, Chris Ci...

Jared Loughner's Parents Said to be 'Devastated' by Shootings
A neighbor says the parents of accused murderer Jared Loughner are devastated by their son's alleged actions, leaving the father in tears and the mother unable to rise from her bed. "They're in there [their home] now," Wayne Smith told the Los Angeles Times on Monday. "They're both crying. He's crying and hanging onto me, and she's not even out of bed." Randy and Amy Loughner's 22-year-old son is being held without bail in Phoenix, charged with two counts of Murder and three other federal counts...