Giffords' brain benefits from benign route of bullet

Rush: Dont Blame Shooting on Talk Radio
CNN reports: Conservative Talk Radio host Rush Limbaugh offered a vigorous defense of himself and Sarah Palin Monday in response to claims from some media commentators and those on the left that some of their charged statements and colorful language may have inspired the Arizona shootings. “[The media] is unnecessarily stirring up the country in ways that don’t merit,” Limbaugh said on his radio program Monday. “It’s fatuous and silly to even verify and justify th...

Despite violence, Rep. Shelley Berkley plans 'Congress on the Corner' event
Rep. Shelley Berkley will host a "Congress on the Corner" event Friday in Las Vegas to honor Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was critically shot last weekend at a similar event. "I'm not going to let any wing nut keep me from doing my job," Berkley said. Berkley invited constituents to meet with her from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Friday in her district office at 2340 Paseo del Prado, Suite D106. "To do less than that, to hide behind the walls of this office, is a huge mistake," Berkley said. Giffor...

Loughner: 'Social Outcast' With 'Indecipherable Beliefs'
What is this? As Jared Loughner's scheduled 4 p.m. ET court appearance draws near, here's some more of what's being reported about the 22-year-old community College Dropout who is accused of killing six people and wounding 14 others Saturday in a shooting rampage at a meet-and-greet in Tucson, Ariz., with Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords: Also, the magazine writes, Tierney "describes Loughner as being obsessed with 'lucid dreaming' — that is, the idea that conscious dreams are an al...

Obama's Task
Jonathan Alter predicts that the president will comment on the Gifford tragedy during the SOTU address: The State of the Union will almost certainly begin with heart-wrenching symbolism. Ever since Ronald Reagan put a “citizen hero,” Lenny Skutnik, in the balcony of the House chamber after he rescued passengers from the wreck of an Air Florida jet that crashed in the freezing Potomac River in 1982, American presidents have all used their State of the Unions speeches to honor their own “S

Shooting Suspect's Family Blockades House
AzCentral.com reports that the family of Jared Lee Loughner has blockaded their house with 4-by-4 double-thick plywood. FBI agents working on the Gabrielle Giffords shooting encountered trouble gaining entry to the suspect’s family home Monday morning. Family members of Jared Loughner apparently had put on 4-by-4 double-thick plywood that blocked access to the front porch of their north Tucson home. At about 12:25 p.m., agents began banging on the Blockade, yelling, “This is the FBI....

Loughner bought bullets morning of shooting
Jared Lee Loughner was turned away from a Walmart when he tried to buy bullets on Saturday morning. But a second Walmart sold them to him a few hours before the Shooting Spree that killed six and injured 14 others, the Wall Street Journal reports. ...

Arizona Shooter To Get Unabomber's Lawyer
Looks like Jared Lee Loughner, the shooter in this weekend's horror in Tucson, has got himself a lawyer: The Federal Public Defender's Office has recommended Judy Clarke to work the case. Clarke, no stranger to such high-profile defense work, previously helped defend Timothy Mcveigh, the Unabomber, 9/11 conspira...

Loughner's family blockades Tucscon home
Family members of the accused-gunman Jared Lee Loughner have blockaded the entrance to their Tucson home with plywood, preventing FBI agents from entering, the Arizona Republic reports. ...

Giffords' shooting suspect Jared Loughner now in court
Jared Lee Loughner, the 22-yearold suspect accused of wounding Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killing six others, is in Federal Court in Phoenix. He is facing charges of attempting to assassinate a congresswoman and of killing a Federal Judge and one of Giffords' aides. He is also charged with two counts of attempting to kill a federal employee. The Associated Press writes that Loughner entered the courtroom handcuffed and wearing an inmate uniform, looking straight at the crowd. His head is shave...

Rhetoric Does Not Kill People, But Guns Do
Good piece from Gail Collins: Today, the amazing thing about the reaction to the Giffords shooting is that virtually all the discussion about how to prevent a recurrence has been focusing on improving the tone of our political discourse. That would certainly be great. But you do not hear much about the fact that Jared Loughner came to Giffords’s sweet gathering with a semiautomatic weapon that he was able to buy legally because the law restricting their sale expired in 2004 and Congress did no...

Fox News: But What Does Mary Jo Buttafuoco Think Of The Arizona Shooting?
Unless you’ve spent every single waking moment since Saturday under a rock, you’ll know that the news has been dominated by the shooting outside a Tucson, Arizona Safeway Supermarket which resulted in six people dead (including John Roll , chief judge for the U.S. District Court for Arizona) and Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in the Hospital. New news about the shooting - and shooter Jared Loughner - has been steadily streaming across news tickers on every major news ch...

Loughner Held without Bail in Tucson Rampage
Like this Story? Share it: President Barack Obama stepped led the nation in a moment of silence to honor Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the six people killed and 14 wounded in a shooting outside a Tucson Supermarket. Erica Hill reports. Erica Hill has an exclusive interview with Debbie Scheidemantel, Adjunct Professor at Pima Community College, who called the cops after having a classroom confrontation with Jared Loughner, the alleged gunman in the Arizona shooting rampage. Erica Hill talks...

Doctors remain hopeful for Gabrielle Giffords
TUCSON, Ariz. -- The bullet that passed through U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' brain tore through only one hemisphere before exiting, missing the crucial central parts of the brain that control most bodily and cognitive functions. The bullet entered through the back of her head, passed through the left hemisphere of her brain and exited just above her left eye, Dr. Michael Lemole, chief of Neurosurgery at University Medical Center in Tucson, said Sunday at a news conference Giffords, D-Ariz., i...

Dorwan Stoddard
Don’t let the politics distract you from his story of courage and sacrifice. When Jared Loughner began firing on the crowd gathered around Rep. Gabrielle Gifford at the Safeway Supermarket in Tucson on Saturday, Mavanell thought the sounds came from Firecrackers. Dorwan knew otherwise and quickly pulled his wife to the ground and threw himself over her. Mavy — as she is known to her friends — was hit three times in the legs, and is now in stable condition and expected to surviv...

Jared Loghner: A Homegrown Terrorist?
The suspect behind a deadly shooting in Tuscon, Ariz., that killed six people and injured 19 others including Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was represented in court, Monday, by prominent attorney Judy Clarke. Clarke specializes in federal death penalty cases, and is the same lawyer who defended "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski, Oklahoma City Bomber Timothy Mcveigh, and Olympics bomber Eric Rudolph. The Federal Bureau of Investigation agents are looking into 22-year-old Jared Loughner's motives. ...

Insanity defense difficult for shooting suspect
WASHINGTON (AP) — In an earlier time, the emerging portrait of a deeply troubled young man might have given Jared Loughner’s lawyers the basis of an insanity defense. But John Hinckley’s successful insanity claim after shooting President Ronald Reagan led Congress to raise the bar for Federal Court, making the task harder. The Justice Department has not said whether it will seek the death penalty against Loughner, the suspect in the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the d...

Giffords Shooting Is Evidence of Conservative Policy Failures, Too.
Since Jared Loughner 's attempted Assassination of Gabrielle Giffords , Republicans have united behind the idea that this was an isolated act by a crazy person. They argue that because Loughner was mentally unstable, their political Rhetoric, often filled with guns and other violent intimations, is not to blame. Loughner probably was a mentally ill person with no coherent political agenda, but that's actually a good indictment of the conservative policy failures that allowed the shooting to take...

Dick Morris Op-Ed: There Are No Politics in Murder
The conventional wisdom of the media establishment that strident and outspoken political debate catalyzes violence is an absurdity! Telling people to "kill pigs" as the sixties radicals did, in fact, encouraged violence. But vigorous political debate and strongly or even passionately held views have nothing whatever to do with the decision of some nut to kill a Congressman or a president. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control ...

Is There Really a Link Between Violence and Mental Illness?
Yahoo! Buzz If Jared Lee Loughner is mentally ill — as some say videos he posted online suggest — did his condition play a role in his decision to shoot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others? Psychiatric exerts tell the Health Blog that the behaviors that Loughner exhibited on his YouTube videos are consistent with that of a person with a severe Mental Illness like schizophrenia, but caution that a thorough and direct examination would be necessary to diagnose him with that or any condi...

Latest Evidence Proves Jared Loughner Was Not Political, Just Psycho
The shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has brought out all of the political cheap shots, with many on the left continuing to blame the incident on Talk Radio, Fox News, Sarah Palin and in the case of Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, GOP members of Congress rejection of the Obama agenda. However, the more the media and police find out about Jared Loughner the shooter the more we learn that he had no political agenda and was a very disturbed psycho. USA Today, reported that Loughner’s...

A Focus on Brain Injuries Following Giffords Shooting
Yahoo! Buzz Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is in critical condition following the Arizona shooting on Saturday that left six dead. Giffords was shot in the head but according to experts interviewed by the WSJ and other news outlets, her ability to respond to simple commands is a positive sign for her potential to recover. Physicians not involved in her care said the bullet, which passed through the left side of her brain, apparently damaged regions that aren’t as important for Speech and thinking...

Insanity defense difficult for shooting suspect (AP)
WASHINGTON – In an earlier time, the emerging portrait of a deeply troubled young man might have given Jared Loughner's lawyers the basis of an insanity defense. But John Hinckley's successful insanity claim after shooting President Ronald Reagan led Congress to raise the bar for Federal Court, making the task harder. The Justice Department has not said whether it will seek the death penalty against Loughner, the suspect in the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the deaths of a fede...

The Tucson tragedy: freedom from violent rhetoric and imagery
So far, there's no connection between alleged murderer Jared Lee Loughner and the extremes of the Tea Party movement. But that's beside the point now, if you ask me. The horrific violence in Tucson saw Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) go from being in the crosshairs of opponents metaphorically to literally being gunned down on Saturday. As a result, we are now finally engaging in a long overdue conversation about the violent Rhetoric and imagery polluting national political discourse. Since the...

Unbelievable! Democrat Rep James Clyburn blames Tucson shooting on reading of constitution last week
Unbelievable! Democrat Rep James Clyburn blames Tucson shooting on reading of constitution last week Lets see how Democrats and their usurpers in the media have played this Tucson shooting. First it was Sarah Palin’s fault for the “targets” on 20 Congressional Districts deemed winnable in the 2010 Midterm Elections. Then it was Glenn Beck’s fault (of course). Then the popular excuse still going to today was to blame the Tea Party, and claim that Jared Lee Loughner. Now,...

Lawmaker Urges Ban on Clips Linked to Shooting
Monday, January 10, 2011 By David Espo, Associated Press Washington (AP) - A longtime Senate Gun Control advocate announced plans Monday to introduce Legislation banning high-capacity ammunition clips like the one linked to a weekend shooting that left six dead and an Arizona congresswoman gravely wounded. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., said he would introduce the measure to re-establish a prohibition that lapsed in 2004 on clips that feed more than 10 rounds at a time. "The only reason to ...