This is very serious. I have been concerned this sort of action could become more common in our country because of political and economic unrest.
I sure hope this is a random act that not become more common.
JJ

Originally Posted by JimJoe

This is very serious. I have been concerned this sort of action could become more common in our country because of political and economic unrest.
I sure hope this is a random act that not become more common.
JJ

Do you have anymore information? A news site or something?

Originally Posted by zcaveman

Do you have anymore information? A news site or something?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thetic...-giffords-shot

Bill

Conflicting reports that she is dead and others say in surgery in hospital.
It is all over the news. JJ

Google FoxNews and you'll get the limited info. First reports was she died but now saying alive, but critical. Gunman is in custody--no motive given and there were others shot as well in the foray! Sad, sad, sad no matter what the political bent one takes. This is pure evil!!!

19 people shot in all and four are dead. It was at a Safeway, part of a public forum called "Congresswoman on the Corner" to put her in touch with constituents.

Sad. Horrible. Needless.

She is out of surgery and doctors are very optimistic for her survival. She was responding to commands. The gun shot was entirely through her head. Amazing!! We all hope for her complete recovery.
JJ

Unfortunately, a nine year old girl is dead. I understand a judge is also dead.

This type of action will occur again if our political disagreements don't become more civil.

A person named in the media as the alleged shooter has internet videos and postings that will probably be used in a mental health defense.

Originally Posted by bestmickey

Unfortunately, a nine year old girl is dead. I understand a judge is also dead.

This type of action will occur again if our political disagreements don't become more civil.

Yep. Hyperbolic rhetoric fuels paranoia.

They'll always be a few crazies in our midst. We can only hope not to be in their path or in their sights if or when they erupt. We cannot know the motivation that drove this twisted soul to commit this heinous action because we cannot know his mind.

To use this tragedy to further our own biases would be unseemly. Sometimes, as in the case of the 2 teenage girls in Texas who were murdered by the lonely soul they befriended, it was kindness on their parts that brought them into the damaged world of their killer, and culminated in their deaths.

The forces that drive a killer of the seemingly innocent has been dissected and bisected by learned criminologists for years and it rarely brings us closer to predicting who might cross that line or why.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/made-housto...ry?id=12510159

Originally Posted by Pturner

Yep. Hyperbolic rhetoric fuels paranoia.

This shooting is a lot like Army psychiatrist Hasan shooting at Ft. Hood---a guy well known for his rants about jihad and beheading people (terrorist talk), in a medical lecture at Walter Reed Army Hospital, no less! Today's shooting is very similar. See the shooter's self-described as "terrorist" rants on youtube and myspace at the CNN link below.

Now why is it that today's shooter is being given a pass, blaming his actions on "vitriolic" political talk and not on HIM being a known wacko who ADMITTED he is a "terrorist" on internet videos?!?!?!?

I think it is just as bad to stereotype an entire group of political opponents as "bigots", "haters", "vitriolic", (the sheriff said this on TV) and "hyperbolic", when the mass murder spree was the sick work of only one guy.

See some of his internet postings here. We're in big trouble if murderers are given the excuse of "others" causing him to murder. Enough already!!!
http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/08/...ial/index.html

Originally Posted by Jane52

This shooting is a lot like Army psychiatrist Hasan shooting at Ft. Hood---a guy well known for his rants about jihad and beheading people (terrorist talk), in a medical lecture at Walter Reed Army Hospital, no less! Today's shooting is very similar. See the shooter's self-described as "terrorist" rants on youtube and myspace at the CNN link below.

Now why is it that today's shooter is being given a pass, blaming his actions on "vitriolic" political talk and not on HIM being a known wacko who ADMITTED he is a "terrorist" on internet videos?!?!?!?

I think it is just as bad to stereotype an entire group of political opponents as "bigots", "haters", "vitriolic", (the sheriff said this on TV) and "hyperbolic", when the mass murder spree was the sick work of only one guy.

See some of his internet postings here. We're in big trouble if murderers are given the excuse of "others" causing him to murder. Enough already!!!
http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/08/...ial/index.html

Hi Jane,
Not sure why you quoted me to make this point. I blame him for his actions and hope he gets prison for life. The politics of the Congresswoman shot is irrelevant. I hope you do not mean to suggest that I see "an entire group of political opponents" as ... anything.

I'm not sure who has sterotyped an entire group for one guy's murder spree? But what's that got to do with my post?

Sarah Palin’s “Take Down 20” list.

Originally Posted by The Shadow

Sarah Palin’s “Take Down 20” list.

And exactly what proof do you have that this shooter acted because of Sarah Palin?
None.
Shame on you.
JJ