US congresswoman gabrielle gifford shot in arizona

holy shit.

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Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) was among the estimated 15 or more victims of a shooting outside a Safeway store in Tucson, Arizona within the past hour. So far, 15 are reported wounded, 6 dead. Details are still coming in, but what has been reported so far: she was "shot point blank in the head," the assailant(s) fired some 15 or more shots into the crowd, and this took place at a "town hall" sort of event during where Giffords was speaking to her constituents. One shooter is reported to be alive and in custody.

 

Early news reports: NPR, NYT, CNN, Tucson Citizen.

 

Above, a tweet the congresswoman published just before the gathering began.

 

Also: "Congresswoman Giffords is married to astronaut Mark Kelly, making her the only current member of Congress to have a spouse who is a member of the Armed Forces, and the only member of Congress to ever have a spouse in space." Kelly is the Commander of Space Shuttle Mission STS-134.

 

Gifford was among those in Arizona whose offices were targeted with vandalism and threats during the health care debate in 2009.

(via @nytjim)

 

Giffords was also one of the lawmakers Sarah Palin "set her sights on" in the Palin PAC infographic below (takebackthe20.com). The congresswoman and others are targeted with simulated gun sights on a map of the United States.

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/08/congresswoman-gabrie.html

Might not be dead.

reuters are saying she is.

She's dead. This is 1,000,000 shades of fucked up.

Hmmm this could get real ugly, real quick!

This sounds horrific...

Fuck... I was in Tucson last week. I hope my gf's friends and family are ok...

  On 1/8/2011 at 8:48 PM, The Overlook said:

This is 1,000,000 shades of fucked up.

it really is.

seriously, when the fuck are people like Palin going to be jailed for inciting murder??!?!?

FUCKED UP

  AlexiMostrous (times correspondent) said:

RT @brianstelter: Ariz state senator Linda Lopez: "We just heard that she is responding to commands. She made it through surgery."

gunmen identified by AP as 'jared laughner'.

So I guess it's fair game to shoot Palin in her head as well?(Just trying to give a positive turn to this whole mess.)

the target map above has mysteriously disappeared from palin's website. she STILL doesn't grasp how the internet works.

i hope Dick Armey is proud of himself for creating a bunch of moronic resentful people who have no idea what's even in the health care bill to go and 'protest' it.

so i take it she doesn't really want a tea party revolution then? you can't have a proper revolution without shedding a little blood.

unfortunately i can see this working out beautifully for Obama's 2012 re-election campaign. The 'fear the teaparty' rhetoric kind of died down the past 6 months, now they can ratchet if up again because this time a tea partier actually killed someone.

in b4 conspiracy theorist saying "this was plotted by the obama administration to make palin look bad"

edit: hmm

Is it just me or has this been yanked http://www.takebackthe20.com?

I'm interested in having a read but it's not on archive.org and the Google cache version is wonked out.

  On 1/8/2011 at 10:11 PM, futuregirlfriend said:

Is it just me or has this been yanked http://www.takebackthe20.com?

 

I'm interested in having a read but it's not on archive.org and the Google cache version is wonked out.

here ya go: http://www.takebackthe20.com.nyud.net/

thanks!

Feels like the old gangster days.

apparently it's 'loughner' not 'laughner' and this is his youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Classitup10

lots of stuff about mind control and brainwashing

He's fucking nuts, but I can't imagine he wasn't influenced by Beck and Palin when it comes to immigration reform in Arizona.

"Secondly, my hope - is for you to be literate! If you're literate in English grammar, then you comprehend English grammar. The majority of people, who reside in District-8, are illiterate - hilarious. I don't control your English grammar structure, but you control your English grammar structure."

  On 1/8/2011 at 10:31 PM, The Overlook said:

"Secondly, my hope - is for you to be literate! If you're literate in English grammar, then you comprehend English grammar. The majority of people, who reside in District-8, are illiterate - hilarious. I don't control your English grammar structure, but you control your English grammar structure."

what's funny is some of his grammar in that vid is way off.

I'm not sure how something like this could've happened. [/sarcasm]

this fucking thing reads like timecube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHoaZaLbqB4