Tragedy In Tucson

Tragedy In Tucson, A hard-nation political rhetoric has become more than just talk – to the point of being dangerous? The attempted assassination of the Arizona Democrat Gabrielle Giffords, as she spoke with voters outside a grocery store in Tucson fueled a debate Sunday on whether the party spirit and strong language against the government that is now a U.S. policy have created a climate that makes violence against public servants more likely.

As a moderate Democrat who narrowly won reelection in a state torn by conflict over immigration policy, anxiety and mistrust more and more economical in the government, Giffords was familiar with more and more bad political rhetoric today. His downfall last opponent accused her of betraying her neighborhood. Meanwhile, targeting Republicans in the November elections picked up former governor of Alaska Sarah Palin site, posted a map with crosshairs on 20 Democrat-held districts in Congress Palin. Giffords has been one of them.

“You can not say they are only words, they have consequences,” said South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn, a member of the Democratic leadership. He said he is concerned about the effect of words on “people who can not be clicking on all cylinders.”

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He warned, “We need to take a look at what we are adrift in here.”

However, some Republican leaders and conservative activists rejected the idea that their language to the contours on issues like health care and immigration could rightly be linked to Saturday’s attack by a gunman who was in Tucson killed six people, including a federal judge and 9-year girl. Giffords, who was shot in the head, was in critical condition Sunday after surgery.

“This is a politicization of a terrible tragedy,” said Rebecca Mansour, an assistant to Palin. “We do not know (the suspect) mobile. It does not appear that he was motivated by political ideology. Madness is not an ideology. ”

She rejected criticism by liberal blogs suggesting that the congressional map Palin had helped to incite violence.

The map does not show itself in crosshairs Giffords a firearm, only his district, “said Mansour. “The language of” targeting a swing district “was used long before we used it. We have no idea if (the suspect Jared Lee Loughner) never seen this chart.”

The nation’s political anger is distressing to many Americans. Nearly three out of four voters polled in November called an election in the fall of the worst they had seen, according to a survey conducted by the Allegheny College Center. Nearly two-thirds called the negative tone of the wrong policy for democracy.

The shooting Tucson feel “as an important moment” to a nation battered by the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and the bitter midterm elections in November, said Kirk Hanson of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University in California.

“Americans try to cope with lower expectations. We will not be the country’s richest and most successful over the next 25 years,” he said. The shots strengthening “introspection that many in Washington and across the countries have been engaged in issues on the violent rhetoric was already asked before the first shots were fired Saturday. “

Moment Of Silence

Moment Of Silence, (AP) – A somber Barack Obama led a minute of silence Monday for a nation stunned by an assassination attempt against a member of Congress in Arizona, which left her seriously injured several others injured and six dead.

In a frosty morning in Washington, the president and first lady Michelle Obama has left the White House the sound of a bell at 11 pm EST. Wearing coats, they stood side by side on the south lawn, each with his hands clasped, head bowed and eyes closed.

After a minute of silence, they walked inside, the President’s hand on the back of the first lady.

The time was also marked on the Capitol steps the United States and around the nation to the direction of the President, who called for the country to come together in prayer or reflection for the dead and those fighting for recover. In total, 19 people were killed in the shooting in Tucson, Arizona on Saturday. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has been shot at close range in the head, and she remains in intensive care. Among the six killed were Chief Justice of Arizona government, a 9-year-old girl, interested in government, and an aide Giffords.

More than 300 staff White House, senior advisers to members of kitchen staff and maintenance crews, joined the Obama family on the South Lawn. To Pennsylvania Avenue, hundreds of staff members of Congress gathered on the Capitol steps is to observe the minute’s silence.

Congress was not in session Monday and most of the participants were employees of congressional offices and others who work in the Capitol.

Prosecutors have accused 22-year-old Jared Loughner one count of attempted murder of a congressman, two counts of killing a federal employee and two counts of attempting to kill an employee the federal government. More charges are expected.

Speaker of the House John Boehner told members in a conference call Sunday to “pull together as an institution.”

“What is important is that we are together in this dark moment as one body,” he said. “We need to rally around our colleague wounded, the families of missing persons and the 8th district of Arizona. And, frankly, we need to rally around each other. ”

Giffords, a Democrat, represents the 8th District of Arizona.

Business of the House this week, including a controversial vote scheduled for Wednesday to repeal new legislation Obama Health Care, was postponed to focus on all necessary actions following the shooting. Connecticut Rep. John Larson, who heads the House Democratic Caucus, said lawmakers continue to have open sessions with voters, although they are likely to take more precautions.

Giffords brother-brother orbit, astronaut Scott Kelly, asked for a moment of silence on board the International Space Station and all flight control centers around the world.

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Gabby Giffords

Gabby Giffords, According to reports from Tucson, Arizona, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) was shot outside a grocery store today, while organizing a public event. NPR reports that the congressman was shot in the head. The Sheriff’s Office Pima County is quoted, as saying that the representative of 40-years for a third term has died from her injuries, although conflicting reports that it is surgery. NPR:

Giffords, who was reelected for a third term in November, hosted its first “Congress on your corner” event northwest of Tucson Safeway when a gunman ran and started shooting.

No fewer than nine other persons, including staff Giffords, were injured in the shooting.

Giffords was transported to a hospital in Tucson, but so far, her condition remains unknown. Passersby were able to control the gunman who tried to flee the scene.

As to the identity of the shooter, site Gawker reports:

The shooter was young, mid 20s at the end, white, clean shaven with short hair and wore dark clothes and said nothing during the shooting or while being held down, but he struggled at first. It does not look like a businessman, but more of a “marginal.”

Tucson News

Tucson News, (AFP)-A member of the Congress of the United States and six other people were killed in Tucson, Arizona by a gunman who opened fire on a public occasion, the National Public Radio, quoting the local sheriff’s office.

NPR said at least nine others were injured in an attack on a grocery store where the Democratic legislator Gabrielle Giffords hosted a congress on your corner “event with constituents. The wounded included three members’ staff.

He said the suspect fled and was approached by a passerby, before being detained, and that witnesses have described as being in his late teens or early 20s.

Andrea Gooden, a witness who was in an office down the street, told Fox News she heard a burst of gunfire and “immediately after there were people running through the parking lot.”

Another witness told CNN he heard 15-20 shots and saw people running and screaming from the scene before police and fire trucks arrived around two minutes later.

Images of the scene showed paramedics rushing stretchers for helicopters.

The incident occurred after packages turned into a post office in Washington, DC on Friday and two government buildings in neighboring Maryland, on Thursday.

Giffords, 40, was elected to Congress in 2006 and is married to Mark Kelly, a NASA astronaut.

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