Tucson Tea Party Founder Blames Giffords For Getting Shot: The Real Case Is That She Had No Security

Tucson Tea Party Co-Founder Says Tea Party Is Victim Too
AP Sarah Palin and the Tea Party have received a lot of criticism in the wake of last weekend's tragic shooting in Tucson, Arizona, prompting Palin to defend herself in a video yesterday, using the antiquated claim of "blood Libel." Now, Tucson Tea Party co-founder Trent Humphries has gone one step further, calling the Tea Party Victims of the shooting, and arguing that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is partially responsible for having a lack of security. Regarding Palin's Controversial gun-target ma...

Tucson Tea Party Founder Blames Giffords For Getting Shot:'The Real Case Is That She Had No Security
Source: Think Progress Tucson Tea Party Founder Blames Giffords For Getting Shot: ‘The Real Case Is That She Had No Security’ In March 2010, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) warned that the Rhetoric from the tea parties and Sarah Palin was potentially dangerous. “I can say that in the years that some of my colleagues have served — 20, 30 years — they’ve never seen it like this…when people do that, they’ve gotta realize there’s consequences to that action,” she

Mitchell Bard: Right Wing Media Lies and the Arizona Tragedy
In the days since the massacre in Arizona, the mainstream political media (and much online discussion) have zeroed in on one question: Did the uncivil political discourse (with violent imagery) of the Glenn Becks, Rush Limbaughs and Sarah Palins of the world create an environment that encouraged or allowed an unhinged character to go on a Shooting Spree aimed at a Democratic congresswoman. I would like to focus on a related question: Are the Right Wing pundits telling the truth? The reason for...

Root THE REAL LESSONS OF THE GABRIELLE GIFFORDS TRAGEDY:
THE REAL LESSONS OF THE Gabrielle Giffords TRAGEDY:  WE NEED MORE GUNS IN THE HANDS OF LAW ABIDING CITIZENS! “Laws that forbid the carrying of arms…disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes…Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”  -Thomas Jefferson The key...

Anti-Gun Metaphor Congressman: Obama had to put on a "double barrel" effort last night
Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) managed to inadvertently illustrate why his clarion call for political Rhetoric free from such metaphors is both impractical and impossible. As Doug Powers aptly suggests, Clyburn at least deserves due credit for making a positive contribution to the current dialog: Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) has been an outspoken critic of the use of so-called violent or vitriolic political rhetoric. Specifically, he has bemoaned references to targeting Candidates or any type of referen...

Hypocrite James Clyburn Obama had to put in a double barrel effort
Hypocrite James Clyburn - Obama had to put in a “double barrel” effort CLYBURN IS IN INCITING VIOLENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh wait. James Clyburn is a Far Left, flaming Progressives, so phrases like “double barrel” are fine. Yes, the same South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) has been whining about the so-called “violent or vitriolic political Rhetoric” is using some of his own to describe Obama’s Speech last night during the pep rally in Tucson. Sp...

Open Letter to Sarah Palin
Governor Palin - Your widening sphere of political influence, along with the Tea Party, is changing the course of political history. A powerful shift in political thinking occurred immediately after the devastating tragedy in Tucson. Revealed to all Americans was the underbelly of the political left. Witnessed was the brazen attempt and rabid reaction by the left’s political attack dogs to use the loss of life and Attempted Murder of a congresswoman as political fodder. Victims barel...

The Lefts Attack On Palins Response to the Tucson Tragedy is All About Appeasement, Not Gun Imagery
In the wake of this weekend’s shooting in Arizona, the opportunists of the Left barely waited for the bodies to cool or for confirmation of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ fate before pouncing on what simply had to be the atrocity’s root cause: Sarah Palin. Even though indications of culprit Jared Loughner’s true mindset started appearing on the very day of the shooting, agenda-driven vultures proceeded to lecture Palin on everything from what she needed to say to the proper level of remo

I'll raise your vitriol with rhetoric!
The January 8th shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) in a "Congress on Your Corner"  event in Tucson, Arizona was tragic and horrific. The outpouring of emotions from regular citizens for Rep. Giffords and the other Victims of the shooting has been nothing short of spectacular, and the good emotions FAR outweigh the bad emotions........ However, the bad thoughts are still there. Once again, the most politically polarized era has decided to show in full force. Sheriff Dupnik, seem...

Tucson Tea Party Leader Being Flooded With Death Threats Following Giffords Shooting
Nice work, Sheriff Dupnik. (TPM)- Trent Humphries, the leader of the largest Tea Party group in this mourning southern Arizona city, has nothing but praise for the way President Obama has led the nation through the aftermath of Saturday’s Mass Shooting at a constituent event for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ). But Humphries won’t be there tonight when Obama speaks at a memorial rally intended to unify Tucson after six people were killed in the tragedy. Humphries says he’s ...

An Eclipse of Tragedy and Opportunity: When Media Spin Transforms
While many Americans were enjoying a brief weekend break from the tedium of a typical work week, Tucson, Arizona saw a tragic drama unfold that would shock the entire country. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, while conducting a neighborhood meeting at a Grocery Store in Tucson, was shot in the head by a lone assassin along with 19 others at the meeting. A Federal District Judge, John Roll, who was appointed by President George W. Bush, was killed along with a nine year old girl who was born on ...

Did Pima County Sheriff Dupnik ignore Jared Loughner's warning signs before Gabrielle Giffords shooting?
Almost immediately after the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords and several others by Jared Lee Loughner, Pima County, Arizona Sheriff Clarence Dupnik began politicizing the tragedy [1]. Part of that politicization was justified, part was not. Specifically, considering the role that an overly hostile political environment might have played in the tragedy and urging calm is acceptable, but naming specific persons (Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh) as possible contributing factors is not. In any case, ...

Tucson Tragedy: The Case for Doing Nothing
From The Economist blog ‘Democracy in America’: Still, freakish death is profoundly unnerving and facing its immunity to reason tends to aggravate rather than soothe our cellular fear of disorder and death. Far from leading us to Resignation, the inscrutability of a sui generis disaster sets our minds in mad motion. We desperately and pathetically grope for some blameworthy failure of foresight, some forward-looking lesson, some food for prudence. It doesn’t matter if ther...

GOP Congressman to Introduce Bill That Would Allow Guns on The House Floor
House Representive “Bubble Boy” Burton last seen shaking in his boots. (The Hill) - A spokesperson for Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) told The Hill on Wednesday afternoon that the congressman plans to introduce Legislation that will allow members of Congress to carry weapons both in the District of Columbia and on the House floor. “There is a rash of Legislation further infringing on Second Amendment rights that has been unwisely proffered in the wake of events in Tucs...

Radio Host Mark Levin Challenges Chris Matthews, Threatens To Sue Any MSNBC Host
Conservative radio host Mark Levin is tired of baseless accusations being hurled at himself and at Sarah Palin, and is now putting some money up in a challenge specifically to MSNBC host Chris Matthews. Levin said on his Radio Show, “I challenge Chris Matthews, I’ll put $100,000 on the table, to find any example where Sarah Palin has promoted the Murder of anybody.” And the same offer exists if Matthews can find an example where Levin himself advocated for the Murder of a poli...

Congresswomen describe seeing Giffords open eye
(01-13) 14:07 PST ABOARD Air Force ONE, CA (AP) -- Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' friends say it's nothing short of a miracle: Days after being shot in the head point-blank, the injured congresswoman opened an eye Wednesday for the first time. Two of her closest friends from Congress, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., were in Giffords' Tucson, Ariz., Hospital room at the time. Both had traveled to Arizona on Air Force One with President Barack Obama to atten...

Gillibrand to describe scene in Giffords hospital room
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., will be on NBC’s “Nightly News” tonight describing the scene in Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ Hospital room yesterday when the lawmaker opened her eyes for the first time since undergoing surgery for a gun shot to the head. Gillibrand and two other lawmakers — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., — were in Giffords’ Hospital room at the time. They were among a congression...

Mayhem in Tucson V: Obama Talks the Talk
   On Wednesday, President Obama visited gravely wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in her Hospital room and later revealed during his address at a memorial service for the slain and injured in Tucsonthe very good news that Giffords had opened her eyes for the first time since she was shot. In his Speech, he called for America’s healing even...

Youngest US shooting victim laid to rest
The youngest Victim of the Tucson shootings was laid to rest Thursday, after Barack Obama hailed the 9-year-old girl as an inspiration to US politicians to heal their poisonous divisions. Christina Taylor Green, who was among six people killed by a misfit gunman last Saturday, has become the heart-breaking public face of the attacks which unleashed a wave of soul-searching about America's political culture. Hundreds of people lined the streets as her small coffin was borne into the St. Elizabeth...

Tucson tea party founder says Giffords to blame for getting shot
One tea Party Leader says that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) has herself to blame for getting shot in the head Saturday. The Arizona congresswoman shouldn't have attended an event "in full view of the public" if she had security concerns, according to Tucson Tea Party co-founder Trent Humphries. Giffords warned MSNBC's Chuck Todd last year that there would be "consequences" to violent Rhetoric and imagery after Fox News' Sarah Palin released a graphic which placed crosshairs over the congresswo...

Tucson tea party founder says Giffords to blame for getting shot
Stumble This! One tea Party Leader says that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) has herself to blame for getting shot in the head Saturday. The Arizona congresswoman shouldn't have attended an event "in full view of the public" if she had security concerns, according to Tucson Tea Party co-founder Trent Humphries. Giffords warned MSNBC's Chuck Todd last year that there would be "consequences" to violent Rhetoric and imagery after Fox News' Sarah Palin released a graphic which placed crosshairs over...

The Second Amendment Demands Gun Control
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 2:44pm. "A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and Bear Arms shall not be infringed."  Of the first ten amendments, this is the only one that contains a rationale for what it requires.  The Bill of Rights is the law of the land, clearly stated. Guarantees of religion, Speech, assembly, the press, freedom from Torture and so much more are natural rights, inherent to the human...

Robert Creamer: Do Americans Have the Right to Bear Weapons of Mass Destruction?
The massacre and Assassination attempt in Tucson have reignited the ongoing battle over what limitations should be placed on our rights to Bear Arms. Let's assume for a moment - though there are many Constitutional scholars who disagree -- that the majority of the Supreme Court is correct in its view that the Constitution does in fact confer on Americans a right to bear arms that is similar in scope to our right to free Speech and assembly. What does it actually mean, that we have a right to b...

Should Public Health Trump the Bill of Rights?
New York Times’ writer Nicholas Kristof advances what he thinks is a very clever idea in his column today: To protect the public, we regulate cars and toys, medicines and Mutual Funds. So, simply as a Public Health matter, shouldn’t we take steps to reduce the toll from our domestic arms industry? The rest of the piece continues in this vein, using Saturday’s massacre in Tucson to argue for “reframing the gun debate as a Public Health challenge.” Since Kristof doesn’t bo

Peter Kings Silly Gun Ban Idea
Filed under Blog. Tagged Arizona, Gabrielle Giffords, Gun Rights, Peter King, Second Amendment, Security. Yesterday I argued that Congress should respond to the shooting in Arizona by encouraging staff members to exercise their Second Amendment rights, going through a professional training program on self-defense and obtaining their concealed carry permits. But if you want to see the opposite suggestion, it comes from anti-gun New York Republican Congressman Peter King, who intends to introduce...