Shooting response has partisan tinge

Congress readies new gun-control bills after Gabrielle Giffords shooting
Congressional advocates of Gun Control are preparing Legislation to renew a ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines of the sort suspected used in last Saturday’s shooting rampage in Tucson, Ariz. Arizona shooting: How safe are members of Congress? Such a ban was in effect between 1994 and 2004 as part of a ban on assault weapons, which also expired. Since then, clips such as those allegedly used by suspect Jared Loughner, which contained more than 30 rounds, have been available for purc...

WORDS DON'T KILL PEOPLE; BULLETS DO (Richard Reeves)
Los Angeles --- I do not believe that Sarah Palin and her blather about "reloading" or Sharron Angle, she of "Second Amendment solutions," have anything to do with the gunning down of innocents in Arizona. You can't blame a third of a huge nation, who love simplistic hyperbole, for the actions of one crazy person in Tucson. What bothers me is people, sane and insane, with guns, better ones, another manifestation of technological revolution. What bothers me is the cowardice ...

New gun control legislation in Congress unlikely
Washington (CNN) - Accused gunman Jared Lee Loughner opened fire with a gun using a magazine holding up to 30 bullets before he was tackled while trying to reload. Some Democrats in Congress argue such high capacity magazines should not be legal, and are renewing their push for a ban. "That enabled him to do the kind of damage that he did. There is no earthly reason for these weapons to have that kind of bullet capacity," said Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-New Jersey. In 1994, President Clinton signe...

A Loaded Question, Part 2
Dave Weigel notes that Arizona Republicans like State Sen. Jack Harper have no compunction against immediately expanding Gun Rights in the state. In Arizona, gun-rights groups don't have to worry about the "anti-freedom bigots" at all. Harper and Pearce are right; they began this year with the votes to expand gun rights, picking up right where they left off last year. They passed a "Constitutional Carry Act" that expanded the right to carry weapons in public—the right Arthur Olivas was enj...

Sen. Barbara Boxer In Her Own Words
At a Press Conference in Southern California Tuesday, Sen. Barbara Boxer talked about the Mass Shooting in Arizona that left six people dead and 14 others injured included Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Sen. Boxer's remarks in her own words: Like many Americans, I have been deeply affected by political Assassinations in my lifetime – John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr. – three figures who inspired me. And it took years and years and years – maybe 15 or 20 years &nda...;

Civil libertarians speak out against Brady (Daily Caller)
Read more stories from The Daily Caller Civil Libertarians speak out against Brady Lamborn responds to NPR attacks Supreme Court close to announcing decision on D.C. marriage case Swedes talk about sexual encounters online Thriller novelist claims to have been recruited into DHS 'Red Cell' Civil Libertarians are coming out in opposition to Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Robert Brady’s proposal to make the use of violent language or symbols that could be construed as threatening to a federa...

The right's role in the Arizona massacre
Glenn Reynolds is a dumbass and those who find his arguments persuasive are, if possible, even more stupid. if you're using this event to criticize the "Rhetoric" of Mrs. Palin or others with whom you disagree, then you're either: (a) asserting a connection between the "Rhetoric" and the shooting, which based on evidence to date would be what we call a vicious lie; or (b) you're not, in which case you're just seizing on a tragedy to try to score unrelated political points, which is contemptible....

Systematic assassinations not part of our politics
Charles Dharapak/AP A book of condolences is laid out for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and other Shooting Victims, Monday, Jan. 10, 2011, in the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington. Giffords was shot Saturday in a Tucson shooting rampage that left six people dead. The steam seems to be going out of the move to "deftly pin this" -- the shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 13 others -- "on the Tea Partiers," as one unidentified senior Democratic operative put...

Arizona shooting: Colorado man 'threatened to shoot Senator's staff' two days before Giffords shooting
A Colorado man has been arrested for allegedly threatening Democratic Senator Michael Bennet's staff two days before a gunman went on a Shooting Spree in Arizona that gravely injured a member of Congress, authorities said....

Republican reacts to AZ tragedy by introducing new gun control legislation
In order to take advantage of a high-profile current event, Peter King, New York's 3rd Congressional District representative, is planning to introduce new gun-control Legislation.  In his own words,  "....as chairman of the Homeland Security Committee and co-chair of the Congressional Task Force on Illegal Guns, I will be introducing legislation that would make it illegal to knowingly carry a gun within a 1,000 feet of certain high-profile government officials.” This legislation,...

Rep. Peter King Defends Proposed Gun Control Law
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. In response to Saturday's Shooting Spree in Tucscon, Rep. Peter King (R, N.Y.) has announced that he's planning on introducing Legislation to make it illegal for American Citizens to knowingly carry a firearm within 1,000 feet of a member of Congress. King told THE Weekly Standard over the phone this afternoon that his proposal came out of discussions he had with New York police over the weekend. “If [Rep. Giffords] had had a ...

Bloomberg, King, offer gun legislation after shooting in Arizona
 In light of the recent shooting in Arizona, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Republican Congressman Peter King are joining forces in support of a safe, sane, federal policy towards Firearms. In New York City, during a news conference at City Hall, the two introduced Legislation that would make it illegal to bring a gun within 1,000 feet of a member of Congress and Federal Judges. The measure will also apply to carrying weapons near the president or vice president.  New Y...

NC Congressman Heath Shuler says he will carry a gun at future events
In response to the Arizona shooting rampage, NC Congressman Heath Shuler has confirmed that he will carry a gun himself for protection at state public events. “I, like many of my constituents and staff in Western North Carolina, strongly support the Second Amendment and do exercise our right to legally and safely carry a firearm,” Shuler (Democrat-Waynesville) said in a statement to the Times-News. Shuler was first quoted by The Politico newspaper on Monday as saying he would be arme...

Republican Wants To Ban Guns Within 1,000 Feet Of Members Of Congress
This is going to have the same problem that Gun Free School Zone Acts of 1990 and 1995 had. You cannot remove someone’s 2nd amendment right to keep and Bear Arms just because they live near a school, and I’m not sure that simply being near a member of Congress is enough to remove those rights either. Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), one of the few pro-gun control Republicans in the House, wants to make it illegal for someone to knowingly carry a gun within 1,000 feet of certain high-ranking...

Poll: In the Wake of Arizona Shootings, Americans Split on Gun Control
(Credit: CBS) CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto. In the wake of Saturday's shootings in Tucson, Arizona, Americans are split over whether Gun Control laws should be made stricter, according to a new CBS News Poll. According to the poll, 47 percent of Americans believe that Gun Control laws should be more stringent in the wake of the Arizona shootings. Meanwhile, 36 percent believed the laws should remain the ...

Republican Peter King Offers Sensible Gun Control Legislation
It’s pretty simple. No guns within 1000 feet of a federal politician. This means that those folks who feel the need to exercise their 2nd amendment rights won’t be allowed into political rallies any more. Good. The National Review asks King some leading questions… King, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, acknowledges that his Legislation, if it had been on the books, might not have prevented the attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D., Ariz.) and others. “...

Don't disarm citizens Rep. King arm your fellow Representatives
Its not just Democrats that are using the Arizona shootings, an irrational action by a madman that no security team could completely prevent., as an excuse to propose ways to limit American’s freedom, Republican Rep. King has added his voice. He wants to selectively over-turn the Second Amendment and ban anyone from having a weapon within 1000 feet of certain Federal officials. Politico reports on this presumptive proposal by the gun-hating Republican. ““It is imperative that w...

In House, Security Briefings and Prayer
House Republicans will meet on Wednesday morning and will receive the first of several security presentations expected by law-enforcement agencies in response to the attempted Assassination of Representative Gabrielle Giffords, Democrat of Arizona, that left six people dead and Ms. Giffords and 13 others wounded. The House will convene at 10 a.m. and Speaker John A. Boehner will call up a resolution honoring the dead and wounded, praising emergency responders, and expressing the resolve of the...

Next on the AZ Target List: Rep. Raul Grijalva?
I have some concern right now (in addition to the Victims of Sat’s shooting) for Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ). He had to close his local offices in Yuma and Tucson back in April 2010 because of threats arising from Racists over Immigration and the infamous S.B. 1070 law. From HuffPo: Grijalva Staffer Ruben Reyes said the office has been flooded with calls all week about Senate Bill 1070. About 25 percent are “very racist” in nature, Reyes said, characterizing some as “t...

Sic To Clyburn: Kiss My Black Ass
If I knew how to Photoshop a rifle target on U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn’s face, I’d have done it … It’s not that I want anybody to bust a cap in his tired old Cosby wardrobe raidin’ ass , I just know that “Controversial” imagery like that would capably reinforce this website’s commitment to the First Amendment at a time when Clyburn and his Socialist allies in Washington D.C. seem intent on tramping all over it. As part of the leftist overreaching that ...

Bloodshed in Arizona turns spotlight on political landscape of anger and hate
As Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona battles for her life after an Assassination attempt, the nation is trying to grapple with the violent tragedy that took the lives of 6 and wounded 14 people on Saturday morning, casting a dark shadow on the start of this year. On the morning of January 8th, while U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was meeting with constituents at a ‘Congress on Your Corner’ event at a local shopping center in Tuscon, a gunman opened fire on the gat...

The Ailes Edict
Forgive me if I’m highly doubtful that Roger Ailes will change anything on Fox News Channel. But the interview with Russell Simmons sure is great PR and is getting a lot of attention. Former Pres. Clinton spoke to the BBC saying politics shouldn’t “degenerate into demonisation” and that the rhetoric “falls on the unhinged and the hinged alike.” He certainly knows this first hand. Less surprising was that Ailes used the platform to scoff at the notion that angr...

A Brief History of Hate and Political Violence in Arizona
Whatever Jared Loughner’s motivations were (and I think there are some clear signs of influence that we’ve been documenting here at JJP), there’s no question that there’s a dark footprint of Hate Speech, threats and political violence in Arizona. It’s routine apparently and it has escalated over the past few years. I think it’s really important to keep the environment and context in which Loughner was acting in mind when he attempted to assassinate his Member ...

Rep. Brodeur files Doc, dont ask gun bill
TALLAHASSEE — Doctors and other medical providers would be barred from asking patients - or the parents of child patients - if they have guns in their home under a measure that promises a major showdown between powerful lobbying groups. The National Rifle Association’s top Florida Lobbyist and a Florida Medical Association member both say the issue is among the top priorities for the session, with the groups holding diametrically opposed positions on what doctors and thei...

Gray Lady editorials respond to Ariz. massacre by demanding increased gun control (Daily Caller)
Read more stories from The Daily Caller Tapper: Some say civil Libertarians the reason loonies like Loughner are out on the street Leahy warns against calls for government Speech restrictions Sen. Kerry calls for political 'civility' post-shooting, but doesn't seem to agree with Republicans on anything Rep. Peter King to introduce bill making it illegal to carry a gun within 1,000 feet of 'high-profile' government official Fellow commenters at UFO Conspiracy website questioned Jared Lee Lough...