Tucson attack motivation for Berkley's town hall event

Tucson attack motivation for Berkleys town hall event
Source: Las Vegas Sun The first person showed up Friday more than an hour before Rep. Shelley Berkley was scheduled to open the doors to her Las Vegas office. It was 7:45 a.m. By 8:45 a.m., three dozen of the Democratic congresswoman’s constituents filled the lobby. When she finally emerged at 9:20 a.m. to greet the crowd, it was standing room only — moms with babies, fathers and daughters and Senior Citizens. Some came to complain about Unemployment. Others asked for help with Social Security. ..

US shooting victim arrested after threat
A man who was shot in the knee during last week's Tuscon shooting rampage was arrested on Saturday after threatening a local conservative leader during an emotional town hall event, ABC News reported. During taping for a Sunday special on the US shooting, witnesses told ABC affiliate KGUN9 News that James Eric Fuller grew agitated when Tucson Tea Party founder Trent Humphries suggested that any conversation about Gun Control should be put off until after the funerals for all the Victims. Fuller ...

LI Congressman Holds First Event After Tucson Shooting
DEER PARK, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) — A Long Island representative held the first “Congress on Your Corner” event since the tragic shootings in Tuscon that left an Arizona congresswoman fighting for her life. Before residents even walked into the event at the Deer Park Fire Department, they were greeted by a Police Officer outside the front door. Congressman Steve Israel told WCBS 880’s Sophia Hall that he felt it was very important to have a “Congress in Your Corner...

Arizona massacre victim lashes out at town hall event
Arizona shooting Six people were killed and 14 others wounded, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona....

Business brisk at Tucson gun show in the wake of rampage
By Tim Gaynor TUCSON, Arizona | Sat Jan 15, 2011 5:08pm EST TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - Thousands of shoppers browsed for guns at a trade show in Tucson on Saturday, a week after a brutal shooting rampage that killed six people and raised questions about permissive Gun Laws in the United States. "People see it as either guns are going to get banned, or I'm going to get shot," said stall holder Randall Record, 27, explaining the mood driving trade at the Crossroads of the West Gun Show on the ...

Business brisk at Tucson gun show week after rampage
By Tim Gaynor Tucson, Arizona | Sat Jan 15, 2011 5:45pm EST Tucson, Arizona (Reuters) - Thousands of shoppers browsed for guns at a trade show in Tucson on Saturday, a week after a shooting rampage that killed six people and raised questions about permissive Gun Laws in the United States. "People see it as either guns are going to get banned, or I'm going to get shot," said stall holder Randall Record, 27, explaining the mood at the Crossroads of the West Gun Show on the outskirts of the city...

A busy week as freshman Rep. Cicilline settles in
U.S. Rep. David N. Cicilline, shown on Jan. 5, is ready to participate in his committee assignments. WASHINGTON — It was a quiet week in the House of Representatives, overshadowed by grief over the Arizona shooting rampage that left a well-liked congresswoman gravely injured. But it was a busy time nonetheless for freshman Rep. David N. Cicilline, who has made progress on securing committee assignments and hiring staff, spoken of the Tucson rampage in his maiden Speech on the House floor, ...

Tucson Shooting Victim Arrested For Saying "You're Dead" To Guns Advocate
One of the Victims in last Saturday's shooting in Tucson was arrested today after saying, "You're dead," to a man advocating for Gun Ownership. The arrest of Eric Fuller, 63, came at a taping of ABC's Town Hall, which was being moderated by Christiane Amanpour. Toward the end of the taping, Amanpour brought up the issues of gun safety and Mental Health. As one member of the audience stood up and expressed his support for gun ownership, Fuller, seated near the front in an area reserved for vict...

Tucson shooting survivor arrested after making death threat to tea partier
In the middle of a taping of a town hall meeting to be aired Sunday on ABC's This Week, a survivor of last week's Tucson shootings issued a Death Threat to a Tea Party member in attendance. According to the website of ABC affiliate KGUN, the man in question, J. Eric Fuller, was arrested and charged with threats, intimidation, and disorderly conduct. Fuller, who was shot in the knee and back in last Saturday’s Shopping Mall massacre, is described by the New York Times as a Military Veteran ...

Democratic-Media Complex Fails Standards of Journalism in Tucson Reporting
At The New Republic, "How the Media Botched the Arizona Shooting" (via Instapundit): When disaster strikes, Journalists have to write something about it—and write it fast. That means they have to take mental shortcuts, calling up established narratives and laying them out like old wrapping paper for new and more ambiguous facts ... But sometimes the shortcuts produce a journalistic stampede at the worst possible time. That’s what happened last weekend, when 22-year-old Jared Lee Lo...

Phoenix residents shouldnt wait for tougher gun laws
Mayor Phil Gordon of Phoenix, AZ, who is a friend and ally of Chicanos Unidos Arizona, has not responded to our call for more Gun Control after last weekend’s massacres. “Mr. Gordon is dealing with a lot right now and it’s too soon to say that he’s not doing anything right now,” a spokesperson from his office tells us. Meanwhile, Chicanos Unidos Arizona and Take Back Aztlán have penned a letter to Fox News asking them to tone down their anti-Latino and just abo...

Flashback: Bachmann Called for "Armed and Dangerous" Citzenry on Climate Bill
In the wake of the tragic shootings in Tucson on Saturday, there has been a lot of talk about the influence of heated—and at times, violent—political Rhetoric, which has seemingly escalated in recent years. Sarah Palin has gotten plenty of attention for her midterms target map (replete with bulls-eyes) of Congressional Districts, Arizona's Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, who was critically injured in the shooting. But it's worth noting some of the other examples of extreme rhetoric&m...;

VA Tech and Tucson -- The Ties That Bind
What a week of political buzz surrounding Jared Lee Loughner’s (22) allegedly killing six people and injuring 13 others with a Handgun last Saturday (January 8, 2011) at a political event outside a Safeway store in Tucson, AZ.  Among the injured, with a shot to the head, was the event sponsor and apparent primary target, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.). In 2007, Loughner attended a Giffords event that his friends said left him upset. He apparently didn’t like her response to h...

Business brisk at Tucson gun show in the wake of rampage
Tucson, Arizona (Reuters) - Thousands of shoppers browsed for guns at a trade show in Tucson on Saturday, a week after a brutal shooting rampage that killed six people and raised questions about permissive Gun Laws in the United States. "People see it as either guns are going to get banned, or I'm going to get shot," said stall holder Randall Record, 27, explaining the mood driving trade at the Crossroads of the West Gun Show on the outskirts of the city. "Either way, it drives sales," he added...

Rep. Shelley Berkley holding Congress on your Corner event this Friday
Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV) will be holding a “Congress on Your Corner” event tomorrow to honor her friend Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) who survived a shot to her head in this past weekends shooting in Tucson, AZ. Rep. Giffords was holding her own “Congress on Your Corner” event at the time of the shooting. Rep. Berkley said "To hide behind these walls would be a mistake of monumental proportions and I'm just not going to let any Wingnut prevent me from doing my job and...

Obama pledges to turn the page, work with GOP and Democrats
WASHINGTON — Citing “great challenges for us to solve,’’ President Obama pledged to work with Democrats and Republicans in the aftermath of the Arizona shooting that killed six, grievously wounded a member of Congress, and brought legislative debate to a virtual standstill. In his weekly radio and Internet address, the president moved to turn the page from the week of solemn observance for the dead and the Victims to the governing business ahead. “We carry on becau...

Cheryl Allen Charged With Making Threats
Indianapolis — An Indiana woman who ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Congress last year was being held Saturday on charges she made threats against judges and other officials on her Facebook account. Morgan County Prosecutor Steve Sonnega – who said he was among those targeted – said he decided to move quickly after discovering the threats in part due to last week's shootings in Arizona that wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed six others. "I think the Arizona situation...

Arrested at a town hall meeting led by ABC News Anchor Christiane Amanpour: Eric Fuller, the survivor of the Tucson massacre who
We talked about him here, yesterday. Now, KGUN9 reports: The theme of the event was "An American Conversation Continued"... When Tucson Tea Party founder Trent Humphries rose to suggest that any conversation about Gun Control should be put off until after the funerals for all the Victims, witnesses say Fuller became agitated. Two told KGUN9 News that finally, Fuller took a picture of Humphries, and said, "You're dead."... The event wrapped up a short time later. Deputies then escorted Fuller fr...

J. Eric Fuller, Tucson Shooting Victim Arrested at Town Hall Meeting For Threatening GOP Rep Terri Proud & Tea Party Spokesman
One week after the Tucson, AZ tragedy and there is an arrest at a town hall meeting for death threats … So much for that call for peace, calm and tranquility in the aftermath of the shooting last week at the hands of Jared Loughner. Tucson Shooting Victim J. Eric Fuller threatened Trent Humphries, the Pima County Tea Party Leader, stood up to speak during the event. He was being very respectful. Trent told the audience that before we start placing blame on individuals we need to get al...

Tucson town-hall meeting ends in arrest of man
Source: Arizona Republic (Azcentral) A man attending a special town hall in Tucson designed to promote conversation and healing a week after the grocery-store shooting was arrested after his outburst at a guest who spoke in support of Gun Ownership. The identity of the arrestee was still unknown Saturday afternoon. The incident took place near the end of a taping of ABC's weekly "Town Hall" with news anchor Christiane Amanpour. The program, which airs Sunday and is called "Tragedy in Tucson: An ...

Tucson: a teachable moment with no teaching
After the Tucson shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others, a vigorous debate is happening throughout Los Angeles and elsewhere over what the teachable take-aways are from this heartbreaking tragedy.  Some think we need to tone down the violent imagery and angry Rhetoric of our political discourse.  Others think it’s a wake-up call for more sensible Gun Laws.  Yet others think it means we need to do more to promote early diagnosis and treatment of Mental Illness. All...

Tucson Shootings: Sympathy for the Mothers
When Gabrielle Giffords opened her eyes Wednesday for the first time since being shot, her husband was there, along with the congresswoman's Democratic colleagues, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who spoke to CNN about the moment. Also in the room were Gloria and Spencer Giffords, her parents. Picture the scene: Mark Kelly by the bedside urging his wife to open her eyes and touch his Wedding Ring. Her friends close by, encouraging. And her...

A sigh of relief when mad and evil people are foiled
J. Scott Applewhite President Barack Obama embraces Mark Kelly, right, the husband of critically wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, at the end of a ceremony honoring the Victims of a shooting rampage that that killed six people and left 14 injured last Saturday, on the University of Arizona campus, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011. In his superb Speech in Tucson Wednesday evening, Barack Obama did great service to the nation. He put to rest the Libel that political Incivility is responsible for t...

Tucson shooting spree victim arrested
TUCSON, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- One of those wounded in the Tucson Shooting Spree that left six people dead was arrested Saturday after making a verbal threat, authorities and witnesses said. Jason Ogan, a spokesman for the Pima County Sheriff's office, said J. Eric Fuller, 63, was "involuntarily committed for Mental Health evaluation," The New York Times reported. Fuller, a Military Veteran who was shot in the Left Knee and the back at U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' Jan. 8 constituency gathering, atten...

Former Classmate Of Rep. Giffords Shares Personal Memories
Since last weekend’s deadly shooting in Arizona that claimed six lives, and left 14 wounded - including a vibrant, young Congresswoman - people have been trying to understand how something so heinous, so senseless could happen. It appeared that Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was specifically targeted by the gunman, prompting some to surmise the attack was politically motivated. That touched off a national debate about the tenor of Rhetoric in this country and whether it has ...