Obama Will Be in Arizona for Memorial

Public memorial set for Arizona shooting victims
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The city shaken by a shooting rampage that killed six people and left 14 injured prepared to come together at a church Tuesday to mourn the Victims, including a 9-year-old girl who sang in the choir. Tucson Bishop Gerald Kicanas will preside over the first official tribute to the victims at St. Odilia Catholic Church. The Diocese called the service a “Mass of healing for our community.” The modern turquoise-and-white church is only blocks from Saturday̵...

For those about to Glock (fire!), we do not salute you
Two truisms about America: 1) There's no such thing as bad publicity and 2) There are second acts in American life... ...especially if your name is Glock: After a Glock-wielding gunman killed six people at a Tucson shopping center on Jan. 8, Greg Wolff, the owner of two Arizona gun shops, told his manager to get ready for a stampede of new customers. Wolff was right. Instead of hurting sales, the massacre had the $499 semi-automatic pistols -- popular with police, sport shooters and gangsters...

Obama Thanked Sheriff Dupnik For What?
Gateway Pundit links to The Political Punch, who noted that Barack Hussein Obama called Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik (who from now on will be referred to here as Sheriff Rosco P. Coletrane) to "thank him." Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, aka Rosco P. Coletrane, of Pima County AZ--The Left's New Hero President Obama spoke today with Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, families of some of the Victims, Rep. Giffords’ Rabbi and two of the heroes that helped in the Arizona tragedy on Saturda...

Family of Arizona shooting suspect expresses sorrow
By Brad Poole TUCSON, Arizona | Tue Jan 11, 2011 9:24pm EST TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - The family of the accused gunman in the Arizona Shooting Spree expressed sorrow on Tuesday over the "heinous events" while the congresswoman shot in the head showed signs of improvement. In their first public statement, relatives of Jared Lee Loughner, 22, said it was a "very difficult time" and asked for Privacy. "There are no words that can possibly express how we feel. We wish there were, so we could ma...

Family of accused Arizona shooter expresses sorrow
By Brad Pool TUCSON, Arizona | Tue Jan 11, 2011 9:11pm EST TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - Family members of a 22-year-old man charged in an Arizona Shooting Spree that killed six people and injured 14 expressed sorrow on Tuesday and said they didn't understand why the rampage happened. In an eight-sentence statement that never mentions the accused gunman, Jared Lee Loughner, his family says the shooting's aftermath was a "very difficult time" and asked for Privacy. "There are no words that can p...

Could Sheriff's Political Rhetoric Prejudice a Potential Loughner Jury?
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik may have done considerable harm to the case against accused Tucson gunman Jared Lee Loughner when he announced moments after the rampage, "I think it's time that this country take a little introspective look at the ... crap that comes out on radio and TV." Dupnik stepped up the Rhetoric in the days following the attack on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, which put Giffords in intensive care, wounded many more and killed six. Calling it his "opinion" and invok...

Shot US lawmaker improves; gunman's family sorry
The US lawmaker shot in the head in an attack killing six in Tucson can now breathe unaided, doctors said Tuesday as the gunman's family broke their silence to say they were "so very sorry." Surgeons gave an upbeat outlook for Representative Gabrielle Giffords' condition, as President Barack Obama prepared to travel to Arizona and a harrowing account emerged about the youngest Victim in Saturday's Shooting Spree. "She's holding her own," said Michael Lemole, the head neurosurgeon who operated on...

Pelosi heading to Arizona with Obama
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi will travel with President Barack Obama to Tucson Wednesday afternoon for a memorial service for the Victims of Saturday's shooting rampage. With the presidential visit, the service was already shaping up to be a dignitary-packed event. Pelosi's office also announced Tuesday evening she would be signing the public condolence book for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), at the Cannon Rotunda next door to the Capitol. ...

Obama Phones Leftist Media-Whore AZ Sheriff Dupnik
To thank him for smearing the right? (ABC News)- President Obama spoke today with Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, families of some of the Victims, Rep. Giffords’ Rabbi and two of the heroes that helped in the Arizona tragedy on Saturday. In a phone call this afternoon with Sheriff Dupnik, according to White House spokesman Nicholas Shapiro, the President “thanked him for his department’s efforts to respond to this incident and coordinate with the FBI and Director Mueller o...

Rampage Suspect's Family: 'We Don't Know Why This Happened'
The family of the man accused of Saturday's shooting rampage in Tucson, Ariz., broke its silence Tuesday, issuing a brief written statement expressing sympathy for the Victims and their families. "We don't understand why this happened," the family wrote in the statement distributed to a cadre of reporters assembled outside the home. "It may not make any difference but we wish that we could change the heinous events of Saturday. "We care very deeply about the Victims and their families. We are so...

Accused shooter's poems evoke his daily routine, scenes from Mauritius
Arizona shooting Six people were killed and 14 others wounded, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona. Jared Lee Loughner is accused in a deadly shooting at a constituents meeting in Tucson, Arizona, held by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords....

A Tale of Two Sheriffs
The Tucson massacre that left six dead and injured 14, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, brought into sharp public focus the local sheriff, Clarence Dupnik. He’s been the sheriff of Pima County, which includes Tucson, Arizona’s second-largest city, for 30 years. For the 20 years before that, he was a police officer. Dupnik has gained attention this week for linking the shooting to the vitriolic political climate in the U.S., and in particular, Arizona. Speaking at a Press Conference...

In Arizona, Obama to honor memories, speak of hope
WASHINGTON — Under high expectations to provide healing, President Barack Obama on Wednesday will try to convert the horror of the Arizona shootings into a moment of national unity, centering his memorial Speech in Tucson on the lives of the Victims and the heroism of those who rushed to stop the madness. The president was crafting his Speech on Tuesday, and his aides were reluctant to discuss it even broadly in its unfinished form, other than to say it will emphasize the memories of tho...

How Thoughtful of Him: Julian Assange Now Quoting Sheriff Dupnik
It's bad enough this national embarrassment known as Clarence Dupnik is being given all the air time possible to spew his insane bilge and getting congratulatory calls from Barack Obama. Now international leftist icon Julian Assange is sending his props by quoting the insane Dupnik.In the one page statement, Mr Assange also offered sympathy and condolences to the Victims of the Tucson shooting on behalf of Wikileaks, together with best wishes for the recovery of US Representative Gabrielle Giffo...

Picture Of Suspect's Troubled Life Comes Into Focus
In his own way, Jared Loughner did try to fit in. Before everything fell apart, the 22-year-old did what a lot of people his age do these days: Lived at home with his parents, went to community college, worked low-wage jobs at big-box stores and volunteered his time for a cause he believed in. None of it worked. His relationship with his parents was strained. He struggled at school and eventually got kicked out. He clashed with co-workers and police. And he couldn't follow the rules at an animal...

New Shooting Details: Loughner's Angry Note
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. (CBA/AP) The 22-year-old man accused of trying to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in a deadly shooting rampage wrote "Die, bitch" in a note found at his home, a sheriff's official told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Investigators believe the handwritten message was a reference to Giffords, Pima County Chief Ri...

Bet on Stupid
With College Football now over, the folks doing online sports gambling at betus.com have one less sport to wager on this time of year. I'd suggest they put together a line on which opportunistic politicians and social commentators will make the dumbest statements or propose the most preposterous laws in the wake of Jared Loughner's 20-victim rampage in Tucson this past Saturday. Peter King's self-serving, dim-witted, and no-doubt Unconstitutional attempt to build a 1,000 foot gun-free zone aro...

WikiLeaks Julian Assange Quotes Sheriff Dupnik, Says Americans Need to Tone Down the Vitriolic Rhetoric
Julian Assange has thanked Australia for its support of his - and Wikileaks’s - cause but called on Americans to tone down political Rhetoric, saying those who incite violence should be charged with incitement to Murder. …In the one page statement, Mr Assange also offered sympathy and condolences to the Victims of the Tucson shooting on behalf of WikiLeaks, together with best wishes for the recovery of US Representative Gabrielle Giffords. The Democrat from Arizona’...

Honor the victims by voting
Trying to make some sense out of the tragedy in Arizona isn't easy. How did it happen? Why did it happen? What can we do, if anything, to keep it from happening again? These all are questions I can't stop thinking about. What does it mean for the Average American? But perhaps it's the killing of 9-year-old Christina Green that is, for me, the most egregious example of not only what is wrong in our society today but also what can be right, if we choose to make some much-needed changes in our co...

Accused gunman's family 'so very sorry' for shootings
Provide feedback to the multimedia producers. Thank you. Your feedback was successfully sent. Video will begin in 5 seconds. What type of connection do you have? Your video format settings have been saved. President Obama says the US continues to grieve the shooting in Arizona which left six people dead. The family of accused Tucson gunman Jared Loughner has apologised to the relatives of those he is accused of gunning down, saying in a first statement since the shooting, "we are so very sorry f...

Family of Arizona shooting suspect expresses sorrow
TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - The family of the accused gunman in the Arizona shooting spree expressed sorrow on Tuesday over the "heinous events" while the congresswoman shot in the head showed signs of improvement. In their first public statement, relatives of Jared Lee Loughner, 22, said it was a "very difficult time" and asked for Privacy. "There are no words that can possibly express how we feel. We wish there were, so we could make you feel better," read the statement, attributed to "The Lo...

Supercop: Theres no doubt Dupnik was affected by rhetoric, although I have no evidence of it
Skip ahead to 1:30 for Matthews’s question about “atmospherics,” followed by Dupnik casually asserting that Loughner must have been especially vulnerable to “anger, hate, paranoia, and so forth.” If he has proof of that, he conveniently forgot to mention it. Over to you, Arizona Republic: Was Dupnik unnecessarily inflammatory? It seemed so. But it came mere hours following a horrific, bloody mass Murder. If you weren’t on edge, you weren’t Being Human....

Radical leftist punk band inspired accused gunman
Jared Loughner, the alleged Arizona assassin, may have been inspired by the radical leftist punk-rock band Anti-Flag, one of his favorite bands, according to a schoolmate who posted on Twitter.com her reminiscences about her association with Loughner. Loughner, 22, is in custody accused of opening fire into a crowd in Tucson, Ariz., killing six and critically wounding Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Understand what's happening to America's culture and what you can do to fight it with ...

Classes canceled for Obama's visit
The University of Arizona has canceled classes on Wednesday ahead of President Barack Obama's visit to the campus for a memorial service that night for the Victims of last weekend's shooting massacre in Tucson, according to an e-mail to faculty. The spring semester will now begin Thursday. Classes for medical Students in Tucson and Phoenix will continue as scheduled. University offices and student services will remain open Wednesday. "This change is needed to accommodate the logistics and...

Obama Thanks the Sheriff...
President Obama spoke today with Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, families of some of the Victims, Rep. Giffords’ Rabbi and two of the heroes that helped in the Arizona tragedy on Saturday. In a phone call this afternoon with Sheriff Dupnik, according to White House spokesman Nicholas Shapiro, the President “thanked him for his department’s efforts to respond to this incident and coordinate with the FBI and Director Mueller on the investigation.”  Additionally t...