Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Shot In Arizona

[cowboymd]

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[74novaman]

Thoughts and prayers for her and her family. This is not good.

[RoyGBiv]

Tragic. R.I.P.


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Gabrielle Giffords, a Democratic congresswoman from Arizona, was shot and killed today at a public event outside a grocery store.

A spokesman for the Pima County sheriff says that at least 12 people were shot, with at least 6 fatalities. The Tucson Citizen reports that Rep. Giffords was "shot point blank in the head."

[74novaman]

huffpost? interesting choice of source.

[G26ster]

huffpost? interesting choice of source.

Yep, and in the update at 2:30 PM it's already started:

"While there is no hard evidence at this point to suggest that the shooting was politically motivated, Matt Yglesias points out that an anti-Giffords event was held in June with the billing: "Get on Target for Victory in November. Help remove Gabrielle Giffords from office. Shoot a fully automatic M16 with Jesse Kelly."

Rep. Giffords was also on Sarah Palin's "target list."

As noted earlier, a gun was dropped at a Giffords event in 2009, and her office was vandalized in March."

Even though Giffords was pro 2A, and pro life, the usual suspects will point to the right as the cause of this tragic event.

[mctowalot]

CNN has a political cartoonist on the scene providing commentary (on the phone).

[G26ster]

Media now reporting she is still alive, but in critical condition!!!

[mctowalot]

Why are they not telling the public what they obviously know?

[RPB]

Sep 10, 2008 Gabrielle Giffords on Tuesday joined a strong bipartisan majority of her colleagues in voting to prevent Mexican trucks from gaining access .... from Google search, of cached, but not available old page from her website prior to the last election.

It's probably drug war "spillover" from across the border..... just guessing.
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Jan 7, 2011 ... GABRIELLE GIFFORDS TO LEAD ECONOMIC DISCUSSION AT U.S.-MEXICO BORDER ISSUES CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON · from Google search, of cached, but not available old page from her website prior to the last election.


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Gabrielle Giffords' provision to ensure that tunneling under the Arizona-Mexico border is criminalized is expected to win approval tonight by the House of ...

Among positions she supported:

*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
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[baldeagle]

The reports of the Congresswoman's demise are premature.

[Bart]

It's probably drug war "spillover" from across the border..... just guessing.

Could be. NPR reported the suspect's sex and age but no other demographic data.

[RPB]

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STREAMING LIVE: Coverage of shooting at Giffords event
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[RPB]

Side Note:
Tucson is supposed to update gun ordinance, currently Tucson Parks are gun free zones
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[b322da]

It's probably drug war "spillover" from across the border..... just guessing.

Could be. NPR reported the suspect's sex and age but no other demographic data.

Again, while we are guessing, I will guess that this report will be shown to fit better under Political rather than Off-topic. A T-party election?

Elmo

[mctowalot]

It's probably drug war "spillover" from across the border..... just guessing.

Could be. NPR reported the suspect's sex and age but no other demographic data.

It's like something from Blogdelnarco.com

This is how they do it down there.