By Steve Hynd
By now, you'll have heard that six people are dead and a further 12 wounded in a shooting spree while congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Az) was doing a walkabout in Tucson. The dead include a nine year old girl and a U.S. District Judge, while Rep. Giffords is gravely ill after she was shot through the head.
The assailant has been identified as Jared Lee Loughner, 22, and possibly a veteran of Afghanistan. All indications are that he is a deeply troubled and psychiologically damaged individual.
Various individuals are frantically trying to make connections between Loughner and either the right-wing Palinite tea party movement or ultra-left radicals, depending upon their own partisan bias.
We at Newshoggers will try not to do that. It's way too early to make such pronouncements, both in terms of evidence and of good taste. Apparenty the shooter was arrested so we'll all find out in good time.
Our deepest condolences to the bereaved and best wishes to the injured and their families.
Update: Bob Morris nails it.
Once again it bears repeating: Does anybody really think that when the Founding Fathers granted us the right to bear arms that they imagined semiautomatic, not to mention automatic, weapons?
ReplyDeleteI completely agree. We don't know all the facts yet and there will be plenty of time to respond when we do.
ReplyDeleteThank you for being so level-headed. Of course, that's why I read Newshoggers in the first place!
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