Topic: Arizona is Fucking Scary (Read 9685 times)

Joxam · « **on:** January 08, 2011, 11:04:33 AM »

Gabrielle Giffords shot as she was preparing to do an event at a grocery store D:

Mongrel · « **Reply #1 on:** January 08, 2011, 11:19:27 AM »

Came here to post that. My paper just reported she's been pronounced dead.

This is gonna be all hell of a shitstorm.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2 on:** January 08, 2011, 11:37:50 AM »

Come to think of it, if Giffords does die, wouldn't this only be second time ever that a sitting Congressperson has been killed and the first time it's happened on US soil? The first being the unfortunate kool-aid guy.

McDohl · « **Reply #3 on:** January 08, 2011, 11:49:24 AM »

HuffPo is reporting that she is dead.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/08/gabrielle-giffords-dead-dies_n_806220.html

EDIT: And news outlets retracting statements that she is dead. Boehner ANGRY. BOEHNER CRYYYYY.

Mongrel · « **Reply #4 on:** January 08, 2011, 11:52:54 AM »

Several sources, including NPR AP and CNN have retracted the death statements until there's further confirmation.

McDohl · « **Reply #5 on:** January 08, 2011, 11:57:18 AM »

Fox News Channel says she is in surgery, which is pretty much what everyone has said at the moment.

EDIT: and it looks like a Glenn Beck rebroadcast is gonna be preempted!

Royal☭ · « **Reply #6 on:** January 08, 2011, 12:03:58 PM »

Of note: The gunman killed six other people in the crowd

Fucking terrorists.

If you read Fox News, apparently the important thing is that she was married to an astronaut

Seriously. That article on a Democratic congressman being shot has one sentence dedicated to her actually being shot, then the rest dedicated to what her husband is doing.

Mongrel · « **Reply #7 on:** January 08, 2011, 12:09:39 PM »

Leo Ryan, that's who I was thinking of (the congressman killed in the Jamestown Massacre).

Royal☭ · « **Reply #8 on:** January 08, 2011, 12:15:51 PM »

Should also point out that this woman was one of the people that Sarah Palin had put her crosshairs back in March

Her name has since been scrubbed from the page, even though Sarah Palin was initially claiming that the rhetoric of assassination was A-OK for politics!

From the NY Post

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Her father Spencer Giffords, 75, was rushing to the hospital when asked if his 40-year-old daughter had any enemies.

"Yeah," he told The Post. "The whole tea party."

Mongrel · « **Reply #9 on:** January 08, 2011, 12:19:54 PM »

I'd already seen that she was on the crosshairs list, but DAMN, THAT QUOTE.

EDIT: On that note, a comment from a fellow I know:

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Mostly I think the left in America is tired of trying to be the sane half and is ready to snap, and this could well be the only trigger needed for the political dialog to descend into total chaos. Also not looking good for the chances of fighting back the security state.

McDohl · « **Reply #10 on:** January 08, 2011, 12:20:21 PM »

This is very terrible, indeed. I'm sure we'll know more in about 10 minutes, when there will be a press conference.

McDohl · « **Reply #11 on:** January 08, 2011, 12:37:56 PM »

One of the fatalities was a judge.

UPDATE: His name was John Roll, a federal judge.

Also, MSNBC is reporting the same sort of thing that TA posted.

TA · « **Reply #12 on:** January 08, 2011, 12:42:16 PM »

It was, apparently, a targeted assassination. According to an eyewitness the NYT interviewed, the shooter came up specifically to her and shot her in the head point blank, and only then started shooting into the crowd.

McDohl · « **Reply #13 on:** January 08, 2011, 12:47:37 PM »

Sheriff's office press conference starting now.

McDohl · « **Reply #14 on:** January 08, 2011, 12:49:36 PM »

Doctors say that the congresswoman is expected pull through.

McDohl · « **Reply #15 on:** January 08, 2011, 12:55:31 PM »

Jared Laughner. No details on this guy as of yet.

McDohl · « **Reply #16 on:** January 08, 2011, 01:00:45 PM »

Hospital conference.

McDohl · « **Reply #17 on:** January 08, 2011, 01:02:31 PM »

UPDATE: Another fatality: a 9-year old little girl.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #18 on:** January 08, 2011, 01:05:34 PM »

Violent rhetoric from the American Taliban:

Giffords' offices were vandalized after the Health Care vote

Gun dropped at August 2009 town hall

In June, Tea Parties held rally to shot support for removing Giffords from office by "shooting m-16s"

Royal☭ · « **Reply #19 on:** January 08, 2011, 01:10:57 PM »

Possible YouTube channel of shooter

I think those are political rants, but they seem to be in some language with only a slight resemblance to English.

News:

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