This tragedy is a very sad time for America. Our thoughts are with Congresswoman Giffords, her family, and the others injured and their families. She is one of the best politicians out there who was actually a moderate/centrist in her views. Giffords is pro-second amendment, herself a gun owner, pro-border control, and concerned with motorcycle helmet laws, etc. Let us all wish her and the other victims a full and speedy recovery.
The shooter appears to be schizophrenic, delusional, or otherwise mentally unstable and we will have to await further reports to find out the truth about those issues.
"A Blue-Dog Democrat with a pragmatic streak
ReplyDeleteGabrielle Giffords is a moderate who has defied efforts to pigeonhole her views.
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, New York Times"
http://www.startribune.com/nation/113149004.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aU1yDEmP:QMDCinchO7DU
These articles characterize the accused shooter as an angry atheist, loner, drug user, who attempted to enter the military, prone to disturbing outbursts in class, suspended from a community college campus due to disturbing video posts, obsessed with government "mind-control programs", and loved books written by Hitler and Marx's Communist Manifesto among others.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/09/jared-lee-loughner-troubled-past