Father of 9-Year-Old Shooting Victim Speaks

Brewer Discusses Tuscon Tragedy, Not Agenda, in State of State Address
Arizona Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, scheduled to give her State of the State address today, instead offered remarks on Saturday's shootings in Tucson. The tragedy has "caused me, caused all of us to reflect on many things, including how we respond to those terrible events," she said before her legislature. "Our response to this tragedy must be led by prayer and comfort the Victims and their families," she said, before leading the chamber in a moment of silence. Brewer recognized the six Arizon...

Gov. Brewer: Arizona 'Will Never Be Brought Down' (VIDEO)
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, who was scheduled to deliver her state of the state address today, instead used the occasion to mourn the past weekend's shooting in Tucson, and to call on the nation to persevere. "I had intended to deliver a state of the state address today, remarks that outline an exciting and solid plan for Job Creation, education and Tax Reform," Brewer said. "And I will deliver that plan to you, but not now, not today." "Tragedy and terror sometimes comes from the shadows to...

AZ Gov: Tucson Shootings an Assault on Democracy
"Tragedy and terror sometimes come from the shadows - and steal our joy and take away our peace," Brewer said during her remarks. "That happened on Saturday when a gunman took away people we love, innocent people, and outstanding public servants - like U.S. District Judge John M. Roll." Six people were killed and 14 injured on Saturday in Tucson, Arizona, when 22-year-old Jason Lee Loughner allegedly opened fire at a political meeting being held outside of a Supermarket. Democratic congresswoman...

Arizona gov. focuses on Saturday shooting in State of State
In a somber opening address of the new session of the Arizona legislature  Gov. Jan Brewer (R-Ariz.) said that the Saturday shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was an assault on American Democracy. "Saturday's events were not just an attack on those individuals we loved and lost but an assault on our constitutional republic, on our democracy," Brewer said "Arizona is in pain. Yes, our grief is profound. We are yet in the first hours of our sorrows but we have not been brought down....

Jan Brewer Leads Standing Ovation For Daniel Hernandez
Moments ago, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer spoke out in support of "extraordinary Arizonans who responded with professionalism and saved lives" during this weekend's tragic shooting in Tucson. Present at the occasion was Daniel Hernandez, the intern whose quick response may have saved the life of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Brewer requested that Hernandez stand to receive thanks, and a well-deserved standing ovation ensued. WATCH: ...

Congresswoman Raises 2 Fingers, Gives Thumbs-Up
Monday, January 10, 2011 By Alicia Chang, Associated Press Dr. G. Michael Lemole, Jr., left, speaks about the condition of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., as Dr. Peter Rhee looks on at University Medical Center during a news conference in Tucson, Ariz., Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011. Giffords was shot in the head the Saturday during a Speech at a local Supermarket. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson) Tucson, Ariz. (AP) - Doctors treating Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' brain wound said Monday the congr...

John Green, father of nine-year-old shooting victim: Tucson 'such a wonderful city.'
A voice of sanity emerges amid the swirl of blather, blame and bile in the aftermath of the shootings in Tuscon, Arizona. It is humbling that it is the voice of a man who has every reason to be bitter, angry, even insane with rage. John Green’s daughter Christina, nine, was killed by a lunatic called Jared Loughner. There are people falling over themselves to proclaim a “climate of hate” in America but Mr Green talks of how “our family” - his wife Roxanna, h...

9-year-old shooting victim was aspiring politician
(01-09) 18:25 PST Tucson, Ariz. (AP) -- At age 9, Christina Taylor Green was already an aspiring politician with hopes of being the first woman to play major league Baseball. Her Patriotism was inspired by a tragedy on her birth date — Sept. 11, 2001, her family told the Arizona Daily Star on Sunday. Another national tragedy took the third-grader's life Saturday. She was shot in the chest and died Saturday, along with five other people killed outside a Supermarket where a neighbor had ta...

9-year-old shooting victim born Sept. 11, 2001...
Those who knew Christina Taylor Green said the precocious 9-year-old's interest in government was the reason she attended the event Saturday that left five others dead and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords gravely wounded. "She was all about helping people and being involved. It's so tragic," her mother, Roxanna Green, told the Arizona Daily Star. "She went to learn ... and then someone with so much hatred in their heart took the lives of innocent people." Stuffed bears and ribbons — pink, lavender,...

Jared Lee Loughner was a registered independent, didn't vote in 2010 election
The best of the best of state-based political blogs -- as of April 2009. Suspected Tucson gunman Jared Lee Loughner registered as an Independent Voter in Arizona in the fall of 2006, according to the Pima County Registrar of Voters. Loughner registered to vote on Sept. 29, 2006, identifying himself as an independent. Records show he voted in the 2006 and 2008 Elections but is current listed as "inactive" on the state's voter roles -- meaning that he did not vote in November. The political affili...

Obama Avoiding Fingerpointing
President Obama is, so far, keeping his distance from the debate over whether vitriolic political discourse contributed to the attack in Arizona that killed six people and wounded 14 people, including Representative Gabrielle Giffords. During remarks at the White House on Monday with President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, Mr. Obama said he is mourning the Victims and trying to offer solace. “Right now, the main thing we’re doing is to offer our thoughts and prayers to those who’ve been impa

"I Have Confidence in Our Legal System:" NJ Son of Arizona Shooting Victim
The son of one of the Victims caught up in the Assassination of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords said, "Because of the state of mind of the suspect, I don't really hold any bad feelings" toward the man arrested at the Murder scene, Jared Lee Loughner. Former New Jersey resident Phyllis Schneck, 79, also died in the attack and her son Ernest, who lives in Rutherford, N.J., told NBC New York, "I have confidence in our legal system that they're gonna do the right thing to mak...

Shooting Victim Died Saving Wife
Huffington Post reports: The longtime pastor of 76-year-old Dorwan Stoddard, one of the six Victims of Saturday’s Arizona shooting, says he had a conversation with Stoddard’s wife in the Hospital that leads him to believe Stoddard died trying to protect her from the spraying bullets. “According to Mavy when I talked to her in the hospital, when the gunshots went off Dorwan pulled her down and ended up on top of her,” Michael Nowak, pastor of the Mountain Avenue Church o...

Heroic Intern on Maddow Tonight
The famous life-saving intern (who only began working for the congresswoman last week) will be on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow tonight. TRAGEDY IN TUCSON : Edgar A. Domenech, Sheriff of New York City; Sherrod Brown (D-OH); interview with Daniel Hernandez , the intern being credited for saving Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ life. Pee Wee and Anderson Cooper? ...

Alaska will lower flags in memory of Tucson shooting victims
Flags will be lowered to half-staff beginning Monday until sunset Friday in honor of the Victims of the Arizona shootings. U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 19 other people were shot Saturday morning by gunman who opened fire at a town hall gathering she was hosting at a Safeway in northwest Tucson. Six people died and Giffords was critically injured. President Barack Obama ordered flags to be lowered and the Governor's office says the state is doing the same. "I urge all Alaskans to pause today ...

Beshear orders flags at half-staff for Arizona shooting victims
FRANKFORT — Gov. Steve Beshear has ordered flags at all state Office Buildings be lowered to half-staff immediately through Friday, Jan. 14, in honor of Victims of Saturday’s shooting in Tucson, Ariz.. that wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed six people. “Saturday’s senseless act of violence is truly unthinkable and its repercussions have affected not only the citizens of Arizona, but this entire nation,” said Gov. Beshear. “I ask that Kentuckians ...

And then it was Monday...Jan10,2010
Working on Updating the Giffords Post below and also two new posts regarding Hate Rhetoric,HateMongering and Our Loss of Compassion ....In mean time we all need to keep the Shooting Victims in our Prayers.....More later...namaste ...

Man Arrested for Threatening Senator's Staff
Just two days after the shooting of a U.S. congresswoman, a man was arrested by the FBI, in coordination with the Capitol Police, in Denver, Colo, for threatening to shoot the staff of Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo. The two incidents are not related, but the alleged shooter, John Troy Davis, according to the Criminal Complaint filed in U.S. District Court, told one of the aides that he "killed that woman," possibly referring to Cong. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., who was not killed but critically w...

Terror in Arizona: Just another 'isolated incident'? Funny how that list keeps mounting
It's fundamental to their Psychology, as Digby often observes, for right-wingers to constantly portray themselves as Victims -- indeed, the American Right long ago mastered the art of flipping reality on its head and turning attempts to hold them accountable for their predilection for violence into a vicious and unfair attack on their honor -- of turning the perpetrators into Victims and the Victims into perpetrators. In 1870, it was the "bloody shirt". Today, in the wake of the Gabrielle Giffor...

Harper blames Dupnik for Giffords shooting
Source: AzCentral.com While her doctors sounded an optimistic tone on U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' recovery, the political discourse is growing harsher. State Rep. Jack Harper, R-Surprise, partly blamed the shooting on Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, who has himself blamed caustic political Rhetoric and lax gun-control as contributing to the massacre. "If he would have done his job, maybe this doesn't happen," Harper told USA Today on Monday. "Sheriff Dupnik did not provide for the securit...

Obama urges U.S. to pull together after Arizona shooting rampage
Steve Holland, Reuters · Monday, Jan. 10, 2011 WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama mourned Victims of an Arizona gunman on Monday and steered clear of a debate on whether harsh U.S. political Rhetoric inspired the attack on a U.S. congresswoman. Meanwhile in Arizona, Jared Lee Loughner, the suspect in Saturday's shooting made his first court appearance. As many members of his own Democratic Party decried the often rabid level of political discourse in the country, Mr. Obama said he is...

The Silence is Killing Us
This country, yet again, is mourning the loss of more lives due to a mass shooting.  This time, it was in Tucson, Arizonawhere six died and 14 others were critically injured.  And yet again, it appears the shooter was a person with a history of issues: criminal, drugs and most likely mental. The shooter wasn’t even allowed to enlist in the Military, yet he was allowed to buy a gun.  The shooter had in his possession “high capacity magazines” w...

Tea Party Express Fundraises Off Giffords Shooting: 'Tea Party Won't Be Silenced'
In an apparent effort to distance themselves from the Mass Shootings in Arizona over the weekend, the Tea Party Express sent out an email to supporters proclaiming that they "won't be silenced" -- and asking for contributions. Earlier today, TPE leader Sal Russo went on Fox News and lamented how "revolting and disgusting the left is for trying to associate the tea party with violence like this." This latest email emphasizes how "horrified" the TPE was to hear about the shootings, which includ...

Democrats Scramble To Exploit the AZ Shooting With Anti-Gun And Anti-Speech Legislation
The nation is still reeling after the horrific Mass Shooting in Arizona this weekend, which left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords fighting for her life, multiple bystanders injured, and six dead, including a nine-year-old girl and a Federal Judge. People were clamoring for answers, and the left wasted no time blaming the tragedy on Sarah Palin and the Tea Party. Once the shooter was identified, it quickly became clear that Jared Lee Loughner was an anti-government, anti-religion nut with no discernible t...

Palin's Other Arizona 'Targets' (recieved death threats)
Source: Daily Beast Palin's Other Arizona 'Targets' by Shushannah Walshe Info Like Gabrielle Giffords, Harry Mitchell and Ann Kirkpatrick were under siege during the health-care debate and appeared on Sarah Palin's "crosshairs" map. They tell Shushannah Walshe about death threats—and the need to cancel town-hall events. • Sarah Palin responded to critics today in an email to Glenn Beck, saying, “I hate violence. I hate war. Our Children will not have peace if politicos just capitalize on this