Who is Jared Loughner?

Frightening, twisted shrine in Arizona killer Jared Lee Loughner's yard
Source: New York Daily News A sinister shrine reveals a chilling occult dimension in the mind of the deranged gunman accused of shooting a member of Congress and 19 others. Hidden within a camouflage tent behind Jared Lee Loughner's home sits an alarming altar with a skull sitting atop a pot filled with shriveled oranges. Read more: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/01/10/201... ...

Giffords shooting leads nation to introspection and political finger wagging
In the wake of the shooting in Arizona this weekend that critically injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and that killed and injured more than 20 people, many pundits and politicians are pointing fingers. Others are hoping the incident will serve to ratchet down rancor. Yet emerging details make it clear the shooter wasn’t primarily motivated by politics, right or left. Jared Lee Loughner seems mainly to have been struggling with Mental Illness and was angry at being thrown out of Pima Communi...

Did Dupnik dismiss Loughner threat?
I have a rule of thumb: if I write a post on a topic, and I get either Hate Mail or hate posts about it, then I’m onto something. Well, yesterday I wrote a post on Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik’s rather strange tactical decision to imply that the Chinese were behind Jared Loughner’s attempted Assassination of Giffords*, and I got both.  Apparently, the Left was not too happy at my suggestion that Sheriff Dupnik’s re-election chances have taken a fatal hit; which was perh

Dr. Keith Ablow: The Tragedy of Mental Illness
The story of alleged gunman Jared Loughner's murderous rampage, which took the lives of six innocent Victims and critically wounded Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, will ultimately prove to be a story about how severe Mental Illness-including that linked to violence-routinely goes untreated. By all accounts, Loughner was psychiatrically ill long before he shot anyone. He was described by a High School classmate as a drug user and loner whose thoughts made little sense. You must login to comment....

Loughner: 'Social Outcast' With 'Indecipherable Beliefs'
What is this? As Jared Loughner's scheduled 4 p.m. ET court appearance draws near, here's some more of what's being reported about the 22-year-old community College Dropout who is accused of killing six people and wounding 14 others Saturday in a shooting rampage at a meet-and-greet in Tucson, Ariz., with Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords: Also, the magazine writes, Tierney "describes Loughner as being obsessed with 'lucid dreaming' — that is, the idea that conscious dreams are an al...

Despite violence, Rep. Shelley Berkley plans 'Congress on the Corner' event
Rep. Shelley Berkley will host a "Congress on the Corner" event Friday in Las Vegas to honor Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was critically shot last weekend at a similar event. "I'm not going to let any wing nut keep me from doing my job," Berkley said. Berkley invited constituents to meet with her from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Friday in her district office at 2340 Paseo del Prado, Suite D106. "To do less than that, to hide behind the walls of this office, is a huge mistake," Berkley said. Giffor...

Quote Unquote: Question from the Audience
Jared Lee Loughner's question to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords at a rally of hers several years ago… "What is government if words have no meaning?" Yikes? ...

Jared Loughner arraignment: Live tweeting the proceedings
The Post's David Nakamura is in Arizona and will be live tweeting on the arraignment of alleged shooter Jared Loughner. Loughner is scheduled to appear in Federal Court Monday at 4 p.m. ET. Loughner is charged with one count of attempted Assassination of member of Congress, two counts of killing an employee of the Federal Government and two counts of attempting to kill a federal employee. ...

Jared Lee Loughner: what is known about Tucson, Arizona, shooting suspect
Jared Lee Loughner is refusing to tell investigators anything about a motive for the Tucson, Arizona, shooting, but he appears to be a familiar character in American life: a disturbed outsider with a gun....

Jared Loughner And The Sorry State Of Mental Health Care
There's a lesson to be drawn from the tragedy in Arizona, but it isn't the one the media is talking about....

Ailes Calls Attempts to Blame Fox 'BS', Says He Instructed News Staff to 'Tone it Down'
Fox News chief Roger Ailes spoke with hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons on the latter’s GlobalGrind web site, and gave some. . . direct . . .comments on the rush by some to blame the Tucson shooting on the likes of Fox News (warning: language): Roger Ailes:   They knew about this guy (Jared Lee Loughner).  The education system knew about this guy…they kicked him out of school and told him until he gets a letter saying he’s not going to kill anybody, he can’t co...

Arizona rampage renews questions about gun screenings
By Steve Gorman Los Angeles | Mon Jan 10, 2011 2:57pm EST Los Angeles (Reuters) - The deadly Shooting Spree in Tucson, Arizona, has renewed questions about a 13-year-old U.S. system that relies on personal Background Checks at the time of gun sales to keep Firearms out of the hands of mentally ill people. Despite ample evidence that the suspect in Saturday's rampage, Jared Lee Loughner, was engaged in bizarre, disruptive behavior well before the shooting, this did not stop him from legally bu...

Shooting opens divide on inflamed rhetoric
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a town where politics never rests, the shooting of U.S. congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords quickly opened a sharp divide on the role of inflamed Rhetoric in the assault and on the proper response to its growth. The Arizona attack ignited a flood of finger-pointing and pontificating on the sometimes overheated state of U.S. political discourse, even as politicians largely vowed at least a temporary halt to the battle of words in Washington. The motives of suspect Jared Lee...

Arizona rampage renews questions about gun screenings
Los Angeles (Reuters) - The deadly Shooting Spree in Tucson, Arizona, has renewed questions about a 13-year-old U.S. system that relies on personal Background Checks at the time of gun sales to keep Firearms out of the hands of mentally ill people. Despite ample evidence that the suspect in Saturday's rampage, Jared Lee Loughner, was engaged in bizarre, disruptive behavior well before the shooting, this did not stop him from legally buying the gun he is accused of using in the attack. "The trou...

The Tragedy of the Arizona Shooting
The Tragedy of the Arizona Shooting Monday, 01/10/2011 - 1:47 pm by Mike Konczal | Post a Comment There are many ways to look at it, but all say disturbing things about the country. This weekend’s tragic shooting at a Safeway district meeting in which United States Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was seriously hurt and a dozen more injured and a District Court judge John Roll, a nine-year-old girl born on September 11th, and a congressional aide were killed has left us all stunned. Her...

Will Marshall: Tucson: The Real Questions
We at The Progressive Policy Institute are heartsick over the senseless attack Saturday on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, which also claimed the lives of six people, including a nine-year-old girl. Not only is Gabby our friend, she is an exemplar of the pragmatic progressivism that puts country before party. We pray for her recovery, and grieve for those who will never recover from this rampage. As if this tragedy were not bad enough, some pundits have disgraced themselves by using it to score polit...

Professional fighter gets visit from Secret Service after calling out Obama
A mixed-martial arts fighter has reportedly received a visit from the Secret Service after saying in a post-fight interview he wanted to fight President Obama. Jacob Volkmann, a fighter with Ultimate Fighting Championship, said in a Jan. 1 interview that he wanted to face off against the president because he disagreed with his Health Care policy. "Someone's got to knock some sense into that idiot," he said in the interview, which is available on YouTube. "I just don't like what Barack is doing...

UFC Fighter Who Wanted To Fight Obama Gets Secret Service Visit
Jacob Volkmann, a UFC lightweight who said last week that he’d like to “knock some sense” into President Obama , got paid a surprise visit from the Secret Service this week. “It happened on Tuesday, I was coaching youth practice,” Volkmann told MMA Weekly. “Two guys came up and one of the other coaches that was helping me out, they said there was a cop and another guy out there waiting for me.” According to Volkmann, the Secret Service agent was somewhat...

Jared Loughner is registered as an independent and last voted in the 2008
Jared Loughner is registered as an independent and last voted in the 2008 Doug Ross has a summary of information from various sources around the ‘net about the nutjob Jared Loughner. On twitter, Left Wing nut jobs are passing around a photoshopped image of Loughner’s voting information. Of course, the only way one would obtain access to this information is if they had Loughner’s voter ID number or driver’s license number. As you would expect, the photoshopped image bein...

Megyn Kelly Takes On Political Hack Sheriff Dupnik Over His Political Spin Agenda On jared Loughner Shooting
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik criticizes other of hate and vitriol and then does it himself … There is nothing more sick and pathetic, than to take advantage and trying to play politics with a terrible tragic event like a Mass Shooting with multiple Deaths. However, that did not stop Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik who, without any evidence, accused other for the gunman’s actions. SICK! However, Fox News Megyn Kelly took on the liberal biased Sheriff Dupnik on his comment...

Jared Loughner: Focus on delusions, not politics
(01-09) 21:10 PST San Francisco -- Posting strange and paranoid messages on the Internet and fixating on the end of the world, accused gunman Jared Lee Loughner appeared to be more driven by a delusional mind than a real interest in politics, Mental Health experts said Sunday. "I doubt people who say this is about politics have a good understanding of Mental Illness," said Dr. Bob Dolgoff, medical director of Alta Bates Summit Medical Center's Mental Health division. "It could be Conspiracy th...

Exploring the Mind and Behavior of Jared Loughner
Jared Loughner is not cooperating with police, remaining silent since being taken into Custody. So we only have his past patterns to use to try and understand his character and his motivations for arriving at the Tuscon Safeway with a loaded gun on Saturday. It looks increasingly clear that Loughner was a normal teen who gradually lost touch with reality, probably due to Mental Illness. He was anti-government but not in a coherent way. And it appears he held a grudge against Gaby Giffords. Ti...

Jared Loughner: Focus on delusions, not politics
(01-09) 21:10 PST San Francisco -- Posting strange and paranoid messages on the Internet and fixating on the end of the world, accused gunman Jared Lee Loughner appeared to be more driven by a delusional mind than a real interest in politics, Mental Health experts said Sunday. "I doubt people who say this is about politics have a good understanding of Mental Illness," said Dr. Bob Dolgoff, medical director of Alta Bates Summit Medical Center's Mental Health division. "It could be Conspiracy th...

Jared Lee Loughner, mental illness, and fringe politics
As appalled as I've been over the past couple of years by ads like this, veiled allusions to insurrection, and the otherizing of the president, I've found arguments drawing connections between a "climate of hate" and Loughner unpersausive. Simply put, the case that far-right Rhetoric contributed or caused this Killing Spree strikes me as squishy, and, at the moment, unprovable. In The Times and Post this morning, there are some of the calling-cards of the conspiratorial right. But more relevant,...

Jared Lee Loughner and media 'madness' | SE Smith
Within minutes of learning Saturday's breaking news about the shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords along with staff and bystanders at a public event in Tucson, I, along with many other people with Mental Illness and Mental Health advocates, knew exactly what to expect: a torrent of speculation about the Mental Health status of the shooter. Real time reactions on the Internet did not disappoint, whether talking about "crazed gunmen", "lunatics", "psycho killers", or "mentally dis...