Rep. Giffords Shot in Arizona

Giffords: Dem who wins in conservative district
(01-09) 04:04 PST PHOENIX (AP) -- Gabrielle Giffords, one of her state's most high-profile Democrats, seems at first glance to be an unlikely choice of voters in conservative-leaning southern Arizona. But she has managed to remain popular, winning election three times in the Tucson-area Congressional District by holding Centrist positions, reaching out to constituents and bucking her party's position on many issues as a key member of the "Blue Dog Coalition" Democrats. She has been tough on bo...

Editor's Note: On NPR's Giffords Coverage
Dick Meyer is executive editor of NPR News. In the course of reporting on the tragic events in Tucson on Saturday, NPR broadcast erroneous information in our 2:01 p.m. Eastern newscast, saying that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona had been shot and killed. That information briefly appeared on NPR.org and was contained in an e-mail news alert sent to subscribers of that service. Thankfully, Rep. Giffords is alive today, though sadly other Victims of the shootings are not. This was a serious and...

Oh No: Congresswoman, Five Twelve Others Shot In Tucson, AZAwful Update: Shot In The Head?
Rep. Giffords is a Democrat, recently re-elected, so if there's a political motivation here (and their probably is, as she was holding a public event), that almost certainly means this is some guy mistaking himself for a True Patriot. The Democrat, who was re-elected to her third term in November, was hosting a "Congress on Your Corner" event at the Safeway in northwest Tucson when a gunman ran up and started shooting, according to Peter Michaels, news director of Arizona Public Media. At least...

Dem Arizona Congresswoman Giffords Shot
Breaking - U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, a Democrat from Arizona, was shot during a public forum in Arizona on Saturday. At least five other people were also shot. The Tucson Citizen is reporting that Giffords was shot at "point blank range in the head." More as it comes in. ...

NPR: Rep. Giffords Responsive to Simple Commands
Source: NPR News Rep. Giffords Responsive To Simple Commands by SCOTT NEUMAN January 9, 2011 Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) remained heavily sedated and in critical condition Sunday, a day after she was seriously wounded in a shooting rampage that killed at least six people and injured at least a dozen others in Tucson. - snip - Lemole said Giffords was able to follow verbal commands — squeezing his hand or showing two fingers. "They show a very high functioning of the brain," he said. Dr. Peter...

Gabrielle Giffords Medical Update: Docs 'Encouraged'
Dr. G. Michael Lemole, Jr., left, speaks about the condition of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., as Dr. Peter Rhee looks on, Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011. The University Medical Center-Arizona neurosurgeon who operated on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords said Sunday he was "cautiously optimistic" about her status following surgery to manage a bullet wound to her brain resulting from a Mass Shooting in Tucson in which six people were killed. Providing the greatest amount of detail released yet about the con...

Arizona Male Who Shot Congresswoman Had Radical Links
Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords remains in critical condition after a gunman shot her in the head, as well as more than a dozen others, including six dead. Authorities note that Jared Loughner had been reading up on White Power and other Hate Group movements prior to the attack. In spite of that, 22-year-old Jared Loughner had largely flown under the radar of Law Enforcement, chiefly because of the lack of direct activity, as noted by Fox News. The Group, American Renaissance, would have target

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Shot in Arizona
Politico reports (as of 1:36pm ET): Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was shot Saturday outside a Grocery Store in Tucson, Ariz., while holding a public event. NPR reported that she and six others were killed, but her office denied she had died. “That report is incorrect.” Giffords spokesman C.J. Karamargin said. Karamargin said he could not comment about whether other Giffords Staffers were struck in the shooting, but that he was not hit. Giffords, who was first elected in 2006, was hosti...

Doctors Talking Positively about Rep. Giffords Chances of Survival Video Report 1/9/11
Here is a video report on the shooting yesterday in Tucson, Arizona of U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 17 other people. It gives a recap of what happened, and says doctors are “talking positively” about Giffords’ “chances of survival” following emergency surgery. My prayers go out for her and the others wounded in this attack, and for the families of those who were killed. I know many of you are doing the same. ...

Congresswoman Shot In Arizona
Source: NPR U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot outside a Grocery Store in Tucson while holding a public event, an eyewitness reported Saturday. Giffords, who was re-elected to her third term in November, was hosting her first "Congress on Your Corner” event at the Safeway in northwest Tucson when a gunman ran up and started shooting. At least five other people, including members of her staff, were hurt, according to Peter Michaels, news director of Arizona Public Media. Giffords wa...

A state deeply in love with its guns
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. US Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona is shot in the head at point blank range at a constituency meeting in Tucson. BEAUTIFUL, vast, rugged and unforgiving, Arizona's postcard landscape is matched by the frontier mentality of many of its populace: not so much lawless, but deeply cons...

Lawmakers Agree on Need for More Civil Discourse
Lawmakers on Sunday called for their colleagues to tone down the harsh partisan Rhetoric in order to avoid unintended responses from the public. Their comments came the day after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and more than a dozen others were shot during an event for her constituents in Tucson. Giffords, 40, was shot in the head and is in critical condition. Six people were killed. Authorities suspect the shooter was Jared Lee Loughner, 22, who is in custody, and they are asking the public f...

Congresswoman fights for life after shooting
Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, was fighting for her life on Sunday following a shooting rampage that left at least six people, including a nine-year-old girl and a Federal Judge dead. Ms Giffords, a 40-year-old member of the House of Representatives who first took office in 2007, was shot in the head at close range while attending a public event called “Congress on your Corner”, at a Supermarket in Tucson, Arizona, on Saturday. EDITOR’S CHOICE Congresswoman fights for life a

Representative Gabrielle Giffords Shot
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords D- Arizona, 8th district This just in from the NYTimes: A congresswoman from Arizona was shot on Saturday along with several others during at public event at a Grocery Store in Tuscon, according to her spokesman, C.J. Karamargin. The Tucson Citizen reported that Ms. Giffords had been shot at close range in the head. Representative Giffords is a pro-choice, pro-gun control Democrat from the Tucson area of Arizona.  She also voted for the stimulus package. It seems clear...

Representative Giffords shot in Arizona: report
WASHINGTON | Sat Jan 8, 2011 1:48pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot in the head outside a Grocery Store in Tucson while holding a public event, Fox News and National Public Radio reported on Saturday. Three of her staff members were also shot by an unidentified gunman who ran up and began shooting indiscriminately, Fox said. (Reporting by Roberta Rampton, editing by Anthony Boadle) U.S. ...

Congresswoman Giffords Shot in Arizona
photo: Freedom to Marry via Flickr Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was holding a constituent service day in her Arizona district this morning, was shot in the head and wounded along with some of her staff. U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot outside a Grocery Store in Tucson while holding a public event, an eyewitness reported Saturday. Giffords, who was re-elected to her third term in November, was hosting her first “Congress on Your Corner” event at the Safeway in ...

Alan Grayson On Giffords Shooting
"I know nothing about the man who shot Gabby, and what was going through his mind when he did this. But I will tell you this - if he shot Gabby out of hatred, then it wasn't Gabby he was shooting, but rather some cartoon version of her, drawn by her political opposition. Because there is no way - NO WAY - that anyone who really knows Gabby could hate her or hurt her. She is a kind, gentle soul." - Former Rep. Alan Grayson, via Press Release. Labels: Alan Grayson, Arizona, Gabrielle Giffords, T...

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...

Palin Spokesman Responds to Attacks and Allegations
The original Take Back The 20 graphic. (USA Today) - Rebecca Mansour, an aide to ex-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, decried the “politicization” of the Arizona shooting rampage that has left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., fighting for her life. “This is a terrible politicization of a tragedy,” she told USA TODAY’s Fredreka Schouten. “We don’t know (the shooter’s) motive. It doesn’t seem like he was motivated by a political ideology...

Intern Credited With Saving Rep. Giffords' Life
Katie Couric discusses the current state of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. as well as her chance of survival with orthopedic surgeon Dr. Peter DeNoble. Rep. Giffords Heavily Sedated after Attack (CBS) TUCSON - An intern that had worked for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords for five days, and ran into the gunfire and applied pressure to her wound likely saved her life, reports The Arizona Republic. Daniel Hernandez checked pulses, and saw that one man was already dead. Then he saw Giffords who was lying...

Daniel Hernandez, 20-Year-Old Intern, Hailed For Helping Gabrielle Giffords After Shooting
A 20-year-old intern is being hailed as a hero for his actions following Saturday's brutal shooting in Arizona. Daniel Hernandez had been an intern for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords for just five days when a gunman opened fire in Tucson, killing six and putting the Arizona congresswoman in critical condition, AZCentral reports. According to AZCentral, the University of Arizona junior says he ran towards the gunshots as soon as he heard them. "I don't even know if the gunfire had stopped," he says. H...

Grijalva: Tucson 'in shock and numb'
Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), who represents part of Tucson said the community has been left "in shock and numb" after a shooting there that left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) in critical condition. "Our community is devastated by this," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "Our community has a million people, but it's small. We're all feeling it and wondering what to do next." A gunman opened fire Saturday at a meet-and-greet hosted by Giffords, leaving fourteen people injured and six dead....

The Blood of Eden
Pollock's "The Deep" I caught sight of my reflection I caught it in the window I saw the darkness in my heart I saw the signs of my undoing They had been there from the start So many American bodies are sprayed with blood, their own, their lover’s, their mother’s and father’s, their brother’s and sister’s. Oh we are so certain of our innocence, but we are a nation tattooed in crimson, eyes to belly, with Jackson Pollock’s The Deep. We called it a N...

Boehner: We Will Not Be Deterred
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Sunday morning denounced the attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) that left six dead and 12 others wounded, including Giffords. “An attack on one who serves is an attack on all who serve,” Boehner said in brief remarks from West Chester, Ohio. Flags on the House side of the Capitol will be flown at half-staff in honor of Gabe Zimmerman, a 30-year-old Giffords aide who died in the attack. Boehner also said he has informed the FBI that “the...

The Giffords shooting
UPDATE: NPR reports Giffords has died. Politico reports: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was shot outside a Grocery Store in Tucson, Ariz., while holding a public event, Arizona Public Media reported Saturday. Giffords, who was first elected in 2006, was hosting a “Congress on Your Corner” event at a Supermarket when a man started shooting. Twelve people were injured in the shoo...