Gabrielle Giffords Shot At Arizona Safeway During Public Event.

[wetibbe]

Along with 5-6 others, 11 wounded.

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...giffords+shopt

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...+giffords+shot

[Ayatollahgondola]

Originally Posted by wetibbe

Along with 5-6 others, 11 wounded.

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...giffords+shopt

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...+giffords+shot

No, they're reporting that she's not dead now. She's still alive

Live coverage:
http://www.kold.com/global/video/fla.../v0001/reflect

[Rim05]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40978517/ns/politics/

This is so sad. What did she do that was so bad. I have heard her name but don't really know anything about her.

I am wondering if the shooter was apprended.
How useless.

[Ayatollahgondola]

Originally Posted by Rim05

This is so sad. What did she do that was so bad. I have heard her name but don't really know anything about her.

I am wondering if the shooter was apprended.
How useless.

Yes, the shooter was apprehended by a bystander at the scene.

Giffords won her seat in a close race with a TEA party candidate last year. She was supposedly a pro-gun congressmember, but not highly regarded by the NRA. Likewise, she was stated as a pro border control member, but not at all highly regarded within hard liner groups because she voted against the border fence, and was not overly sympathetic after the killing of Roger Krantz near his ranch

[Twoller]

Here is a link to her Wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabrielle_Giffords

She seems pretty conservative for a democrat. There are only two things that I see that might draw gunfire. She's Jewish and she voted to fund stem cell research:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel...epresentatives

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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives

Representative Gabrielle Giffords in 2008.Following the September 2006 election, Giffords was sworn in as a congresswoman on January 3, 2007. She was the third woman in Arizona's history to be elected to serve in the U.S. Congress. In her inaugural speech on the floor of the House of Representatives, Giffords advocated a comprehensive immigration reform package, including modern technology to secure the border, more border patrol agents, tough employer sanctions for businesses that knowingly hire illegal immigrants, and a guest-worker program. In her first month in office, Giffords voted in favor of increased federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research, raising the minimum wage, endorsing the 9/11 Commission recommendations, new rules for the House of Representatives targeting ethical issues, and the repeal of $14 billion of subsidies to big oil companies, in favor of renewable energy subsidies and the founding of the Strategic Renewable Energy Reserve.

During the 2007 session of Congress, Giffords introduced a bill (H.R. 1441)[11] that forbids the sale of F-14 aircraft parts on the open market.[12] She also voted for the contentious May 2007 Iraq Emergency Supplemental Spending bill, saying, "I cannot, in good conscience, allow the military to run out of money while American servicemen and women are being attacked every day".[13]

Giffords is a member of the Blue Dog Coalition and the New Democrat Coalition. She is the only member of the U.S. Congress whose spouse, astronaut Mark E. Kelly, is an active duty member of the U.S. military.[14] She is also known as a strong proponent of solar energy as well as for her work to secure the United States border with Mexico.[15][16]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel...fords#Abortion

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Abortion

Giffords is pro-choice, with a 100% rating from NARAL.[28]

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She is pretty weak on immigration:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel...order_security

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Immigration and border security

Rep. Giffords with the Commandant of the Coast GuardArizona's 8th Congressional District is one of 10 in the country bordering Mexico. Giffords has stated that the Arizona SB1070 legislation is a "clear calling that the federal government needs to do a better job". [38] and saying that she hopes the legislation acts as a wake up call to the federal government. However, she stopped short of supporting the law itself, saying that it "does nothing to secure our border" and that "This law stands in direct contradiction to our past and, as a result, threatens our future." She also claimed that SB1070 kept Arizona from attracting students and businesses.[39]

On August 31, 2010 Congresswoman Giffords praised the arrival of National Guard troops on the border: "Arizonans have waited a long time for the deployment of the National Guard in our state. Their arrival represents a renewed national commitment to protecting our border communities from drug cartels and smugglers."[40]

Giffords worked to secure passage of the August 2010 bill to to fund more Border Patrol agents and surveillance technology for Arizona’s border with Mexico. The legislation passed the House of Representatives only to be sent back by the U.S. Senate with reduced funding. Ultimately a $600 million bill was passed and signed in to law. The bill was over $100 million less than Giffords fought for, but she said that “This funding signals a stronger federal commitment to protect those Americans who live and work near the border.”[41]

In 2008, Giffords introduced legislation that would have increased the cap on the H-1B visa from 65,000 per year to 130,000 per year.[42] If that was not sufficient, according to her legislation, the cap would have been increased to 180,000 per year.[43] The bill would have allowed, at most, 50% of employees at any given company with at least 50 employees to be H-1B guest workers.[44] A large number of H-1B visas are used by outsourcing companies, as five of the top ten users of the visa are regularly outsourcing corporations.[45] Giffords claimed the bill would help high-tech companies in southern Arizona, some of which rely on H1-B employees.[44] Giffords' bill was never voted on by the House of Representatives.

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[Jeanfromfillmore]

These are some links to the shooter and his videos. The left is trying very hard to link this to the Teaparty and the right. But what he appears to be is more of an anarchist, the ANSWER type, but time will tell. He's a real nut!

http://www.youtube.com/user/Classitu.../0/3L1lsLU-kUw

http://www.youtube.com/user/Classitup10#p/u

http://www.youtube.com/user/Starhitshnaz

[Rim05]

If I had to listen to that music in the first video I might go out and kill people too. It is totally nerve racking.

Thanks for the video. Fox reported very early that all his postings had been taken down.