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Congresswoman Gabby Giffords Shot "Point Blank In The Head" At Town Hall Event In Tucson
From Breaking News: Local media is reporting Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, a Democrat, was shot ‘point blank in the head at a town-hall like event in northern Tucson. Is this the beginning?
Update from NBC News: Dem Party in Tucson saying Giffords taken to hospital, 5 others also shot. Shooter apparently in custody.
Update 2: from Fox Phoenix: 12 people shot at Gabby Giffords community meeting. Congresswoman among the injured, while CNN reports 6 dead and 15 wounded.
Update 3: NPR confirms Gifford has died.
Update 4: Reuters refuting the previous NPR news, and states that Giffords is still alive, in surgery, nine other patients brought in from shooting, per a hospital spokeswoman
The best coverage of this event we have found so far is, ironically, on Sky News:
And now it gets pathetically political: Breaking news reports that a liberal blogger blames Sarah Palin for Gabrielle Giffords assasination attempt.
“F*** it. I’m going there” One liberal blogger wrote on Saturday
after news of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot dead in point
blank range at a Tuscon rally. The blogger TBogg
blamed former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin for the congresswoman’s
death after Palin named Giffords as one of her ‘targets’ during the 2010
mid-term elections. Palin was caught in controversy when she published on her Facebook
page a graphic that showed several ‘target’ districts, including
Giffords 8th district in Arizona.
Gawker has provided a description of the shooter:
A gunman indiscriminately fired into a crowd at a gathering for Democratic representative Gabrielle Giffords outside a Safeway in Tucson, Arizona this morning. Giffords and at least five others were shot, according to NPR. The gunman was tackled and arrested.
Update: We spoke to an eyewitness, Steven Rayle who
was on the scene at the time of the shooting and helped to hold the
suspect down while waiting for police. Here's what he said:
The event was very informal: Gifford 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 Gifford
in the head first. According to Rayle, who is a former ER doctor,
Gifford was able to move her hands after being shot.
After shooting Gifford, the gunman opened fire indiscriminately for a
few seconds, hitting a number of people, including a kid no older than
10 years old. Rayle hid behind a concrete pole and pretended to be dead.
When the gunman apparently ran out of ammunition he attempted to flee,
but a member of Gifford's staff tackled him. The Rayle helped hold him
down while waiting for the sheriff to arrive, about 15-or 20 minutes
later. 30 minutes later the EMS came. Rayle said he was "stunned" by how
long it took medical help to arrive.
The man was young, mid-to-late 20s, white clean-shaven with short
hair and wearing dark clothing and said nothing during the shooting or
while being held down. He didn't look like a businessman, but more of a
"fringe character," our source said.
From Giffrods Wikipedia page:
Gabrielle Giffords (born June 8, 1970) is the U.S. Representative for Arizona's 8th congressional district. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
She is the only member of the U.S. Congress whose spouse, astronaut Mark E. Kelly, is an active duty member of the U.S. military.[1]
Giffords is known as a strong proponent of solar energy as well as for her work to secure the border with Mexico.[2] [3]
Giffords was first sworn in as a congresswoman on January 3, 2007.
She is the third woman in Arizona's history to be elected to serve in
the U.S. Congress. In her inaugural speech on the floor of the House of
Representatives, Giffords said a comprehensive immigration reform
package needs to include modern technology to secure the border, more
border patrol agents, tough employer sanctions for businesses that
knowingly hire illegal immigrants, and a guest-worker program. In her
first month in office, Congresswoman Giffords voted to support increased
federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research, raising the minimum wage, endorsing the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission,
and supporting new rules for the House of Representatives targeting
ethical issues. Giffords also voted to repeal subsidies to big oil
companies and invest the savings in renewable energy. "We put our national security at risk by relying on oil from unstable regimes in the Middle East and Latin America," Giffords told her colleagues in a speech on the House floor during debate on the Clean Energy Act. The act repeals $14 billion in subsidies given to oil companies and establishes a Strategic Renewable Energy Reserve to increase research in clean renewable energy, to develop greater energy efficiency, and to improve energy conservation.
During the 2007 session of Congress, Giffords introduced a bill (H.R. 1441)[4] that forbids the sale of F-14 aircraft parts on the open market.[5] She also voted for the contentious May 2007 Iraq Emergency Supplemental Spending bill,
saying, "I cannot, in good conscience, allow the military to run out of
money while American servicemen and women are being attacked every
day".[6]
Giffords is a member of the Blue Dog Coalition and the New Democrat Coalition.
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You're talking to a wall.
More than communism, more than fractional banking fraud, the biggest part of the propaganda has been directed to transforming males into ball-less slaves, afraid of violence.
History is repeating itself.
What part of my post made you call me a "ball-less slave, afraid of violence." by implication? My point about the statistical success of violent change? My endorsement of the market place of ideas?
You seem to be too emotional about the topic of violence. I would recommend avoiding letting your emotional urge to make inflammatory remarks infest the debate and instead focus on rational arguments.
Concerning your points about the tendency to avoid violence: such a tendency is greatly correlated to comfortable living.
Yes, points well taken. Ethics and morality are best left malleable. Options should always be left open, since one of the instruments of control is the institutionalizing of a absolute morality which binds people by rules.
So lets take the situation now and analyze it. There are the points that you suggest that say that violence might be a good option in the quest for quality. The risk is too big this time though. We didn't have nuclear weapons in the time of the revolution. We didn't have a massive surveillance system. Our enemy was clearly defined: the guys across the pond. Most people can't be convinced that the enemy is the government since it gives them handouts, they can't be convinced that the enemy is the Fed because they don't know what it is.
The example of the American Revolution is an anomaly. It was an event where many stars were aligned to make a good thing. Usually we do not have good results with violence. And back then while those Founding Fathers were smart, they were powerful rich men that incited the revolution for personal reasons, which just happened to be productive. The rich don't have much to complain about, there are no powerful men that can unite the populace for a productive purpose like during the last revolution. Senseless violence is what I see occuring if this shitmobile ever losing its wheels.
I don't think violence is the best option right now, and I think we have to look into alternatives. I have a few in mind and I am making a personal project of them right now. They have to do with making the political marketplace of ideas less restrictive (less barriers for entry and transaction costs). I am sure that it help justice and reason prevail given the situation we find ourselves in.
--Seneca
Killing even ALL jew members of US Congress or US Senate will not solve the problem. Don't You understand? Jewesh financial mafia is NOT A PROBLEM, it is only the visible expression of the real problem. The real problem is your internal mental state of oil and computer idolatries, which in turn have concluded US "we the people" into governance by jewish financial mafia.
The biggest thief in modern history is jew (B. Madoff). He is in jail now for 150 years (read "almost dead"). So what?
First, figure out how in universe the mostly-christianic country went into the state, where it is governed by jewish financial mafia? How? Why?
I can tell You: the US people stepped out the chistianity, felt into a numerous idolatries, and only *after that*, it leads into the governanace by a non-christianic mafia.
While You will think about it, stay away from US Congressman/women, and possibly You will be safer. Stay away as far as possible from them mentally and geographically.
The only way to survive in Sodom - go away from it.
Guess we are changing from an ObamaNation (pronounced abomination) to an AssasiNation.
Strange, just two days before the shooting I thought we were overdue for an assasination:
by bunkermeatheadp...on Thu, 01/06/2011 - 18:49
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This country is far too medicated, sedated, placated, and incapacitated.
I've been waiting 3 years now for a nut case to shoot Bernanke so that Jessica Alba would fall in love with him.
Despite MSM, still think the judge was primary target. Why does a guy on Team Obama shoot his democrat representative? Very strange.......
http://www.eutimes.net/2011/01/top-us-federal-judge-assassinated-after-t...
Now that's a site to put your faith in truthiness being told. Hope you don't believe everything you read. They make World News Weekly look like a Pulitzer Prize winning publication.
Interesting that those who fail to have empathy for a dead child, dead father and horribly wounded congressman are entirely devoid of the courage necessary to take any real action to save our country. Unfortunately I am finding this site populated by fimiculous leptons of the worst kind. Ball-less metrosexuals in bad suits, slovenly in appearance, and lacking in testosterone. If I heard someone talk like this in public I would kick their asses so hard that CANDY would fall out.
I'm not sure how courage and empathy are related.
Personally, I've become so numb to the tsunami of violence directed toward strangers that I just honestly can't let myself bleed over it anymore.
Violence? You're soaking in it.
We kill and maim so many people every day in this country that it's hard to keep track. And though we've been told THIS is the ONE TO REALLY CARE ABOUT, maybe I just don't believe it anymore. I've given up drinking Kool-Aid and switched to bile.
Murder isn't a great way to make the world a better place. But we've become so fucking good at it, that depriving another of their life has lost its shock value.
By the way, I am, indeed, Ball-less, slovenly in appearance and lacking in testosterone. Never went in for bad suits though. And this makes me unworthy because, why, exactly?
Also, it's important to note that kicking asses in public can often lead to imperial entanglements, whether or not CANDY falls out.
But I'm guessing YOUR violence is okay, while that of a total stranger is somehow isn't. I'm missing the logic there, but then, I probably don't have the basic testoterone level required for it to sink through my silly little head.