Arizona — Across the political spectrum, the first reactions to the news of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ shooting Saturday were horror and grief. For many in the tea party movement, another reaction quickly followed: Don’t try blaming this on us, too. The populist conservative movement – which exploded across the political landscape in 2009 in angry […]
Arizona — The man accused of the attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was charged Sunday afternoon with federal crimes that could carry the death penalty if he is convicted. Prosecutors charged Jared Lee Loughner, 22, with five counts — killing federal government employees, attempting to assassinate a member of Congress and attempting to kill […]
Arizona –Shortly after news broke that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) had been shot at a congressional event in her district, observers began noting that she had, during the campaign, literally been Sarah Palin’s target. But a Palin aide is now explaining that it was all a misunderstanding: the infamous image was never meant to evoke […]
Arizona –Very few people survive being shot in the head at close range, but all indications are that Gabrielle Giffords is one of the lucky few. Doctors are cautiously optimistic about her condition, but are reluctant to speculate on her recovery. The swift response of people on the scene – emergency workers and medical staff […]
I say this because Arizona is not the problem. We the people are the problem. That is, we Americans who think it is cool to engage in rhetoric, political or otherwise, that encourages division, ugliness, hatred, and violence, directly or indirectly. Over the past several years, we’ve witnessed this madness via certain television networks, tv […]
Below are some of the videos we were able to dig up on Jared Lee Loughner, who attempted to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona this weekend, while killing six in the process and injuring many others. RELATED: Arizona Shootings
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Below is a gallery of the failed assassination attempt on the life of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, which ended with six people killed and numerous others injured. RELATED: Arizona Shootings
In the past year, the state of Arizona has become a hotbed of racism with the law enacted for immigrants to be stopped by law enforcement if suspected of being in the country illegally. The reputation doesn’t get any better for the state John McCain calls home. In 1992, Arizona became the last state to […]
Tucson — Six people were killed and 14 others were injured yesterday after a gunman opened fire on a crowd of people at a political meet-and-greet outside an Arizona supermarket. Among those killed were several septuagenarians, Arizona’s top federal judge, a political aide to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, and a 9-year-old girl who was born on […]
TUCSON– Prosecutors accused Jared Lee Loughner, a troubled 22-year-old college dropout, of five serious federal charges on Sunday, including the attempted assassination of a member of Congress, for his role in a shootout that left 20 people wounded, six of them fatally, on Saturday morning. Court documents filed in the U.S. District Court in Phoenix […]
Since President Obama was elected in 2008, the gun rhetoric we’ve seen pop up online in videos from Tea Party rallies and politicians revving up their base have been unmatched on an historical level. Yesterday, the comments of many Republican candidates at their rallies may have inspired Jared Loughner to nearly assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, […]
