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Hate trigger pullers.
That Second Amendment has a lot to answer for.
And that Sarah Palin, apparently!
http://wildcat.arizona.edu/per...r-giffords-1.1654164
Palin reloads, aims for Giffords
She is a right wing nut job tho.
All the blokes find her sexy though.
Heaven help us if she achieves her aspirations of getting to the White House.
alright the majority. I remember chatting to some people in the same course as me and they said that they'd do her if it meant that she'd shut up
The Arizona shooter doesn't sound like one of hers, though. Just another sad loner who slipped the mental healthcare net..
Tbf I said the same thing about Jeremy Kyle.
Yes, and so does whoever invented the bullet.
The father of the Congress woman shot was asked who he blamed ,he said The Tea Party.
They have brought the FBI in to take charge ,they say thats because a Judge had been killed,I think its to prevent the Sherriff politicising the shootings,he is after all an elected post.
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David Pratt, Foreign Editor
9 Jan 2011
The shooting yesterday of US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has led to questions over the tone of a political campaign that âtargetedâ her because of her support for the health reforms of President Barack Obama.
Giffords, a 40-year-old Democrat in her third term in the House of Representatives, was airlifted to a hospital in Tucson after being shot in the head at point-blank range outside a Safeway supermarket in the Arizona city during a public appearance. Yesterday, the father of the Congresswoman, Spencer Giffords, 75, wept when asked if his daughter had any enemies. âYeah,â he told The New York Post. âThe whole Tea Party.â
Giffords was named in March as a political campaign target for conservatives in Novemberâs elections by former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, who published a âtarget mapâ on her website using images of gun sights to identify 20 House Democrats, including Miss Giffords, for backing the new health care law.
Five people were killed, and a ânumber of individualsâ wounded including Giffords in yesterdayâs attack, in which a total of 18 people were shot, confirmed Rick Kastigar, an official from the Pima County Sheriffâs Department. One of the victims was a nine-year-old girl.
President Barack Obama called the attack an âunspeakable tragedy,â saying in a statement that âwhile we are continuing to receive information, we know that some have passed away, and that Representative Giffords is gravely wounded.â
In her own statement issued shortly after the attack, Palin offered her âsincere condolencesâ to the Giffords family and those of the other victims.
Giffords was meeting constituents in a âCongress on Your Cornerâ event when she was attacked from about four feet away. Eyewitnesses said the gunman, later named as 22-year-old Jared Loughner, tried to run away but was tackled by a bystander. In March last year, on the night Congress passed its sweeping health reform law, a window was smashed in Congresswoman Giffordsâ office in Tuscon, and she had been the subject of intimidation and harrassment, including death threats. Last night she underwent extensive surgery.
âSheâs in a critical condition,â said Dr Peter Rhee of the University Medical Centre. âThe neurosurgeons have finished operating on her and I can tell you that in the current time period I am very optimistic about recovery ... she was following commands