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NPR wrote:Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Shot In Arizona

by NPR Staff
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January 8, 2011

U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot outside a grocery store in Tucson while holding a public event, Arizona Public Media reported Saturday.

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 five other people, including members of her staff, were hurt. Giffords was transported to University Medical Center in Tucson. Her condition was not immediately known.

Giffords was talking to a couple when the suspect ran up firing indiscriminately, and then ran off, Michaels said. According to other witnesses, he was tackled by a bystander and taken into custody.

Giffords was first elected to represent Arizona's 8th District in 2006. The "Congress on Your Corner" events allow constituents to present their concerns directly to her.

More details to come.

Only in America...

Not so, said Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

As if other countries haven't had government buildings bombed, politicians stabbed in session, or people taking headers off the balcony into the legislators. Be very careful about making ignorant statements like that. Take away the gun, and someone would have been stabbed or something else. Guns are simply tools; banning them just makes the determined sickos become more determined, not deterred...

Sonova...

Wow. Will be very interesting to find out what the gunman's motives were.

Awkward:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/24/sarah-palins-pac-puts-gun_n_511433.html

Valhallan42nd wrote:Not so, said Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

well said!

That's pretty damn bad. I am very curious as to his motives.
Hope the lady survives.

Valhallan42nd wrote:Awkward:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/24/sarah-palins-pac-puts-gun_n_511433.html

wow

prediction: tea bagger, glen beck listener was shooter.


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reuters reporting that Giffords is dead.

And she's been pronounced dead:http://www.npr.org/2011/01/08/132764367/congresswoman-shot-in-arizona


Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and six others died after a gunman opened fire at a public event on Saturday, the Pima County, Ariz., sheriff's office confirms.

The 40-year-old Democrat, who was re-elected to her third term in November, was hosting a "Congress on Your Corner" event at a Safeway in northwest Tucson when a gunman ran up and started shooting, according to Peter Michaels, news director of Arizona Public Media.

At least three other people, including members of her staff, were injured. Giffords was transported to University Medical Center in Tucson. Her condition was not immediately known.

Giffords was talking to a couple when the suspect ran up and fired indiscriminately from about four feet away, Michaels said.


The suspect ran off and was tackled by a bystander. He was taken into custody. Witnesses described him as in his late teens or early 20s.

Giffords was first elected to represent Arizona's 8th District in 2006. The "Congress on Your Corner" events allow constituents to present their concerns directly to her.

More details to come.

F$%@, Giffords plus six others dead.

That's pretty damn terrible.
Also, is that gaffe gonna be the nail in Palin's coffin?

olympia wrote:prediction: tea bagger, glen beck listener was shooter.


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reuters reporting that Giffords is dead.

That's not neccessary.

Damn, that's horrible. Gunfire has no place in politics.

I'm thinking that Palin thing is a set-up.

We don't know until this jackwagon has been "interviewed."

Let's not jump to conclusions.

Now a hosptial spokesperson is say she's still alive:
2:37 PM ET Giffords Alive And In Surgery

A hospital spokeswoman tells MSNBC that Giffords is alive, still in surgery.

Conflicting reports, too, about how many other people and how bad. The NPR article right now says at least nine other people injured, but doesn't say who if anyone was killed.

Still, this is horrible.

Stormrider wrote:

olympia wrote:prediction: tea bagger, glen beck listener was shooter.


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reuters reporting that Giffords is dead.

That's not neccessary.

No, but it's likely. Other options include cartel hitman, coked up WE DO NOT USE THIS WORD THIS WAY ON DAKKA (can work with first prediction), and wacky militia guy defending his right to own a gun.
Or maybe he just listened to Eminem.

To be entirely honest I'm surprised it took this long for something like this to happen considering what fox has turned our democracy into.


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coked up WE DO NOT USE THIS WORD THIS WAY ON DAKKA (can work with first prediction)

They why isn't it filtered? It doesn't really have a whole lot of other uses, it's the noun form of slowed which is used pretty much exclusively to describe the mentally handicapped in a poor light.

I told you guys this would happen. in a thread many moons back. Back when that abortion doctor and lib church killings, and again when that wacko slammed his plane into an IRS building. Now we have at least four dead. "Don't retreat, reload!"

ShumaGorath wrote:

coked up WE DO NOT USE THIS WORD THIS WAY ON DAKKA (can work with first prediction)

They why isn't it filtered? It doesn't really have a whole lot of other uses, it's the noun form of slowed which is used pretty much exclusively to describe the mentally handicapped in a poor light.

It's perfectly usable in its verb form. I agree with you that the pejorative noun form seems to be used more. Exactly which words to filter is always a judgment call.

Great, so some republican nutjob decides he doesn't like the fact that a Democrat was put into office, so he decides to become a murderer.

Soladrin wrote:Only in America...

Yeah right.

Melissia wrote:Great, so some republican nutjob decides he doesn't like the fact that a Democrat was put into office, so he decides to become a murderer.

Soladrin wrote:Only in America...

Yeah right.

The political leanings/agenda of the shooter have yet to be established.

No, but I imagine my guess is pretty close.

Interesting update from Telegraph site:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/us-politics/8248267/American-congresswoman-Gabrielle-Giffords-shot-in-head.html

At least 11 others including some of her staff members were reported to have been injured, some seriously, and there were reports that between four and six people had died. There were conflicting reports over whether Miss Gifford had herself been killed.

A respected US website reported another eye-witness, Steven Rayle, who was on the scene at the time of the shooting and helped to hold the suspect down while waiting for police. He told Gawker.com: “The event was very informal: Giffords had set up a table outside the Safeway and about 20-30 people were gathered to talk to her. The gunman, who may have come from inside the Safeway, walked up and shot Giffords in the head first.”

According to Mr Rayle, who is a former Accident and Emergency doctor, Gifford was able to move her hands after being shot.

Either an automatic rifle or the chap is exceedingly quick at aiming and reloading then.

Melissia wrote:No, but I imagine my guess is pretty close.

Perhaps,but ATM it's still speculative...and,I doubt that the people who were injured are overly concerned with the politics of the person who shot them,at least not ATM.

Y'know....I'm ok with it.

Sorry it had to be this lady, but somebody is gonna have to die to wake this country up a bit. Yes, I know I'm unkind and all kinds of other words. A populace pushed to the breaking point will take matters into their own hands. While I absolutely do not support or advocate violence in any situation save for defense of an innocent, I can understand the mentality that would drive someone to this behavior.

That being said, its in AZ so at least he'll be made to pay for his crimes in a suitably uncomfortable manner.