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Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Shot by Jared Loughner

Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head outside of a public event at a grocery store in Tuscon Arizona. Her attacker has been identified as 22 year old Jared Lee Loughner. Youtube videos and images from his Myspace paint a picture of a disturbed young man, upset with the US political system. Many are asking if Loughner's actions might have been encouraged by violent rhetoric from members of the GOP.

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  • LonelyCloud...   Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Gi...  about a year ago
  • Glenn Reynolds weighs in. From the WSJ: To be clear, if you're using this event to criticize the “rhetoric” of Mrs. Palin or others with whom you disagree, then you're either: (a) asserting a connection between the “rhetoric” and the shooting, which based on evidence to date would be what we call a vicious lie; or (b) you're not, in which case you're just seizing on a tragedy to try to score unrelated political points, which is contemptible. Which is it? I understand the desperation that Democrats must feel after taking a historic beating in the midterm elections and seeing the popularity of ObamaCare plummet while voters flee the party in droves. But those who purport to care about the health of our political community demonstrate precious little actual concern for America's political well-being when they seize on any pretext, however flimsy, to call their political opponents accomplices to murder.

    Elwin Ransom
    a year ago
  • Trebor   Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Gi...  about a year ago
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  • I don't know many neo-communists who list Ayn Rand among their favorite authors. I also don't know many neo-communists who think it's important to return to the gold standard. It looks to me like this guy just embraced an incoherent amalgam of fringe conspiracy theories. Can we just not all accept that this guy was insane and that his insanity stemmed from neurological issues that do not correlate in any way with political ideology?

    Ego Scriptor
    a year ago
  • The final summation of Tea-Tardashion is violence.

    Smokin' Joey
    a year ago
  • I love how you guys try to paint the RNC candidates as being illiterate yet you push this crap. You need to get out more. Not everything you read on Huffington Post is true.

    Elwin Ransom
    a year ago
  • Matt Wilstein
    a year ago
  • Violent rhetoric from the GOP? Only someone as classy as Keith Olberman would make this tragedy political. Remember, it was Dems who asked that NJ teacher's union members pray for the death of Gov. Chris Christie (R).

    harrisonfritz
    a year ago
  • MepReport
    a year ago

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