Congressional Officials say congresswoman shot [Archive]

Hotspring 44

01-08-2011, 11:49 AM

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<cite>By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent </cite><cite>01/08/2011</cite>
Congressional Officials say congresswoman shot (https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110108/ap_on_re_us/us_congresswoman_shot)

WASHINGTON – Congressional officials say Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has been shot in the head while meeting with constituents in her district in the area around Tucson.
These officials say as few as four and as many as a dozen people were wounded in the attack, including members of the Democratic congresswoman's staff. One official says one of the victims has died.
The severity of the injuries suffered by the others is not immediately known.
The officials spoke only on condition of anonymity, saying they were not authorized to do soon the record.

Hotspring 44

01-08-2011, 12:08 PM

Arizona Rep. Giffords Shot By Gunman (https://www.npr.org/2011/01/08/132764367/congresswoman-shot-in-arizona)

by NPR Staff

January 8, 2011 Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head by a gunman at a public event in Tucson on Saturday. There are conflicting reports about whether she was killed.

The Pima County, Ariz., sheriff's office told member station KJZZ the 40-year-old Democrat was killed. At least nine other people, including members of her staff, were injured.

Giffords, who was re-elected to a 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.

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 transported to University Medical Center in Tucson.

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

Giffords is married to astronaut Mark Kelly, a veteran of Desert Storm. They have two children.

In Wikipedia:
<table class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style=""> <td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"> Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabrielle_Giffords)

Rep. Giffords in 2007
Giffords was first sworn in as a congresswoman on January 3, 2007. She was 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 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embryonic_stem-cell_research), raising the minimum wage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage), endorsing the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy). "We put our national security at risk by relying on oil from unstable regimes in the Middle East (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East) and Latin America (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America)," Giffords told her colleagues in a speech on the House floor during debate on the Clean Energy Act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Energy_Act).
The act repeals $14 billion in subsidies given to oil companies and establishes a Strategic Renewable Energy Reserve (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Strategic_Renewable_Energy_Reserve&action=edit&redlink=1) 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)<sup id="cite_ref-0">[1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabrielle_Giffords#cite_note-0)</sup> that forbids the sale of F-14 aircraft parts on the open market.<sup id="cite_ref-1">[2] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabrielle_Giffords#cite_note-1)</sup>

She also voted for the contentious May 2007 Iraq Emergency Supplemental Spending bill (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Troop_Readiness,_Veterans%27_Care,_Katrina_Recovery,_and_Iraq_Accountability_Appropriations_Act,_2007), saying, "I cannot, in good conscience, allow the military to run out of money while American servicemen and women are being attacked every day".<sup id="cite_ref-2">[3] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabrielle_Giffords#cite_note-2)</sup>

Giffords is a member of the Blue Dog Coalition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Dog_Coalition) and the New Democrat Coalition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Democrat_Coalition). She is the only member of the U.S. Congress whose spouse, astronaut Mark E. Kelly (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_E._Kelly), is an active duty member of the U.S. military.<sup id="cite_ref-3">[4] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabrielle_Giffords#cite_note-3)</sup>

She is also known as a strong proponent of solar energy as well as for her work to secure the border with Mexico.<sup id="cite_ref-4">[5] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabrielle_Giffords#cite_note-4)[6] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabrielle_Giffords#cite_note-5)</sup>

On January 8, 2011, Giffords was shot outside a Safeway (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeway) in northwest Tucson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucson) during her first "Congress on Your Corner" gathering of the year. At least nine others were injured when a man ran up to the crowd and began firing.<sup id="cite_ref-6">[7] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabrielle_Giffords#cite_note-6)</sup>

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Hotspring 44

01-08-2011, 10:22 PM

Here's the screenshot of the shooter's page before taken down by MySpace:

https://yfrog.com/f/h2vlzp/

That one photo of a semi-automatic pistol with that photo shot of what appears to be the Lincoln Memorial shows that the alleged assassin probably had some kind of a fixation about the pistol and the federal government.

Also, there was mentioned in the article about him, in one of his YouTube videos making a statement about mind control.

Even though there may be something to it as far as the manipulation by way of mind control goes; that's really no reason or defense for the horrible thing that he (“allegedly”) did.

Some snippets from a more recent ({Yahoo!} AP (https://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/brand/SIG=11f589428;_ylt=Av86zWCD4RX8c3VNkxlagiZH2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTBzc2k0M2xoBHBvcwMxBHNlYwN5bi1wcnZkbGluawRzbGsDYXA-/**http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ap.org%2Ftermsandconditions)) article, with a lot more info than has been posted as of yet:
<table class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style=""> <td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"> <cite>People gather for a candlelight vigil for the victims of the shooting in Arizona at the steps of Capitol Hill. More photos » (https://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Arizona-Rep-Gabrielle-Giffords-shot-during-public-event/ss/events/pl/010811giffords)</cite>
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AZ shooting targets US congresswoman, kills 6 (https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110109/ap_on_re_us/us_congresswoman_shot)
<table class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style=""> <td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"> ...The sheriff blamed the vitriolic political rhetoric that has consumed the country, much of it occurring in Arizona.
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<table class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style=""> <td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"> "When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government. The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous," he said. "And unfortunately, Arizona, I think, has become the capital. We have become the mecca for prejudice and bigotry."...
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<table class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style=""> <td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"> ... Giffords expressed similar concern, even before the shooting. In an interview after her office was vandalized, she referred to the animosity against her by conservatives, including Sarah Palin's decision to list Giffords' seat as one of the top "targets" in the midterm elections...
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<table class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style=""> <td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"> "For example, we're on Sarah Palin's targeted list, but the thing is, that the way that she has it depicted has the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district. When people do that, they have to realize that there are consequences to that action," Giffords said in an interview with MSNBC.
In the hours after the shooting, Palin issued a statement in which she expressed her "sincere condolences" to the family of Giffords and the other victims....
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<table class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style=""> <td style="padding: 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"> ... Law enforcement officials said members of Congress reported 42 cases of threats or violence in the first three months of 2010, nearly three times the 15 cases reported during the same period a year earlier. Nearly all dealt with the health care bill, and Giffords was among the targets.
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The complete article can be found here: https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110109/ap_on_re_us/us_congresswoman_shot

Hotspring 44

01-08-2011, 10:44 PM

This graphic (https://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/graphic-Sarah-Palin-Take-Back-20-Facebook-page-shows-US/photo//110109/480/urn_publicid_ap_org9675d0bee98b475d807ba6df6c58ccde//s:/ap/us_politics_threats_analysis;_ylt=AnPv6.LdSqkojMlqAOQYdERH2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTE5OGFsY2lsBHBvcwMxBHNlYwN5bl9yX3RvcF9waG90bwRzbGsDdGhpc2dyYXBoaWNm) from Sarah Palin's 'Take Back The 20' Facebook page shows a U.S. map with the cross-hairs of a gun scope imposed over 20 Democrats' districts.

… Read more » (https://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/graphic-Sarah-Palin-Take-Back-20-Facebook-page-shows-US/photo/110109/480/urn_publicid_ap_org9675d0bee98b475d807ba6df6c58ccde/s:/ap/us_politics_threats_analysis;_ylt=AnPv6.LdSqkojMlqAOQYdERH2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTE5OGFsY2lsBHBvcwMxBHNlYwN5bl9yX3RvcF9waG90bwRzbGsDdGhpc2dyYXBoaWNm)

podfish

01-09-2011, 09:36 PM

This graphic (https://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/graphic-Sarah-Palin-Take-Back-20-Facebook-page-shows-US/photo//110109/480/urn_publicid_ap_org9675d0bee98b475d807ba6df6c58ccde//s:/ap/us_politics_threats_analysis;_ylt=AnPv6.LdSqkojMlqAOQYdERH2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTE5OGFsY2lsBHBvcwMxBHNlYwN5bl9yX3RvcF9waG90bwRzbGsDdGhpc2dyYXBoaWNm) from Sarah Palin's 'Take Back The 20' Facebook page shows a U.S. map with the cross-hairs of a gun scope imposed over 20 Democrats' districts. (here's the image from NPR's website)
I'm used to the rhetoric. You can't be expected to self-censor to avoid offending the easily offended, or limit all public expression so it's child-safe or innocuous enough to escape notice by the unstable - but you should at least be honest about it. From the NPR story:

in a Sunday interview with talk radio host Tammy Bruce, Rebecca Mansour, who works for Palin's PAC, said the images of crosshairs weren't intended to evoke violence: "We never ever, ever intended it to be gun sights," she said. really? those are just pushpin icons???

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