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</div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div><a href="https://democracychronicles.org/lawsuit-nra/">https://democracychronicles.org/lawsuit-nra/</a>from the <a href="https://campaignlegal.org/press-releases/lawsuit-nra-illegally-coordinated-35-million-campaign-spending" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Campaign Legal Center</a>:Today, Campaign Legal Center Action (CLC Action) <a href="https://bit.ly/2ZN9zGO" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">filed suit</a> on behalf of Giffords against the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for failing to announce any action against the National Rifle Association (NRA) for using shell corporations to coordinate campaign spending with seven federal candidates spanning three election cycles from 2014-2018. The lawsuit was filed two days before President Trump addresses the NRA’s annual convention for the third year in a row – the only time in American history a president has done so.The NRA’s complicated scheme had the effect of evading campaign contribution limits and shielding millions of dollars of political spending – including up to $25 million coordinated with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign – from public scrutiny. The Trace first reported on the NRA’s scheme.Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and Giffords filed four complaints with the FEC to address these violations. The FEC is the independent regulatory agency tasked with enforcing campaign finance laws in federal elections, the agency routinely deadlocks and fails to reach the required four votes necessary to open an investigation. Today, Giffords is asserting its right of action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the 120-day period expired in which the FEC was legally required to respond.“Our elections are awash in secret cash, and the federal agency charged with enforcing our nation’s election laws is asleep on the job,” said Trevor Potter, president of CLC, and a former Republican Chairman of the FEC. “Campaign finance laws are supposed to limit the influence of money in our politics. For our system to function properly, the FEC needs to enforce the laws that preserve the independence of campaigns and limit the influence of well-funded special interests.”“When the FEC doesn’t do its job, groups like the NRA are able to get around the rules designed to limit the influence of money on our democracy,” said Brendan Fischer, director, federal reform at CLC. “The FEC’s failure to enforce the law sends a message to wealthy special interests that they can push the legal envelope and get away with it.”“The FEC is supposed to be the nation’s election watchdog, but in this case it didn’t bite, bark, or even whimper,” said Adam Skaggs, Chief Counsel, Giffords Law Center. “Instead, it turned a blind eye while the NRA’s leadership made clear it’s more interested in handing bags of cash to candidates who will carry its water than following American laws or looking out for the interests of gun owners. In a desperate attempt to hold onto power and influence, NRA executives have flagrantly ignored our campaign finance laws and undermined the integrity of our election system. The FEC must bring illegal campaign conduct into the light of day and we are proud to join with CLC in calling on it to uphold the laws that protect the legitimacy of our democracy.”<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ4uXIRhxRQ&feature=youtu.be" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Watch our video</a>, which explains the underlying story behind the NRA’s scheme.Campaign finance law allows outside groups like the NRA to make unlimited expenditures supporting candidates only if the expenditures are completely independent of those candidates. To protect this independence, the FEC has rules prohibiting coordination between outside groups and campaigns, which include restrictions on how a vendor may work for both a candidate and an outside group supporting that candidate. Otherwise, the common vendor can act as a conduit to funnel strategic information to the outside group, and then that group’s expenditures are no longer independent.The lawsuit implicates the NRA’s spending in support of the following seven candidates:<ul style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 26px 40px; padding: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><li style="font-weight: 400; box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc;">Matt Rosendale (2018 campaign for U.S. Senate in Montana)</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc;">Josh Hawley (2018 campaign for U.S. Senate in Missouri)</li><li style="font-weight: 400; box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc;">Donald Trump (2016 campaign for President of the United States)</li><li style="font-weight: 400; box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc;">Ron Johnson (2016 campaign for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin)</li><li style="font-weight: 400; box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc;">Thom Tillis (2014 campaign for U.S. Senate in North Carolina)</li><li style="font-weight: 400; box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc;">Cory Gardner (2014 campaign for U.S. Senate in Colorado)</li><li style="font-weight: 400; box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc;">Tom Cotton (2014 campaign for U.S. Senate in Arkansas)</li></ul>You can see the full video here:</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div>Sarah Palin is seeking over $75,000 in damages in defamation lawsuit against NY Times</div><div>
</div><div>Written by Alex Henderson December 31, 2019</div><div>
</div><div>President Donald Trump isn’t the only Republican politician who has been highly critical of the New York Times: former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is another long-time critic —and on Monday, the 2008 GOP vice-presidential nominee filed a 52-page amended complaint as part of her defamation lawsuit against the publication. Palin, according to Law & Crime, is seeking more than $75,000 in damages as well as “restitution in the form of the Times’ advertising revenues attributable to the” June 14, 2017 article that inspired the lawsuit.</div><div>
</div><div>On June 14, 2017, the Times published an opinion piece by its editorial board and discussed, among other things, Palin’s political activities in the early 2010s — when her political action committee, SarahPAC, released an ad that depicted crosshairs imposed over various Democratic politicians. One of them was Arizona’s Gabby Giffords, who was serving in the U.S. House of Representatives at the time. After the ad aired, Giffords was seriously injured in a January 8, 2011 attack in Tucson by gunman Jared Loughner.</div><div>
</div><div>In her lawsuit, Palin asserts that it was unfair for the Times to publish an editorial linking her to Loughner’s attack. The Times’ James Bennet is specifically mentioned in the lawsuit.</div><div>
</div><div>The filing on Monday states, “Gov. Palin brings this action to hold James Bennet and the Times accountable for defaming her by falsely asserting what they knew to be false: that Gov. Palin was clearly and directly responsible for inciting a mass shooting at a political event in January 2011. Specifically, on June 14, 2017, the Times published an editorial authored in the name of its editorial board, which represents the “voice” of the Times, that falsely stated as a matter of fact to millions of people that Gov. Palin incited Jared Loughner’s January 8, 2011 mass shooting at a political event in Tucson, Arizona.”</div><div>
</div><div>Palin, Colin Kalmbacher explains in Law & Crime, first filed her lawsuit against the Times only two weeks after the June 14, 2017 editorial was published.</div><div>
</div><div>The filing on Monday also states, “Gov. Palin brings this action to hold James Bennet and the Times accountable for defaming her by falsely asserting what they knew to be false: that Gov. Palin was clearly and directly responsible for inciting a mass shooting at a political event in January 2011. Specifically, on June 14, 2017, the Times published an editorial authored in the name of its editorial board (which represents the ‘voice’ of the Times) that falsely stated as a matter of fact to millions of people that Gov. Palin incited Jared Loughner’s January 8, 2011, mass shooting at a political event in Tucson, Arizona.”</div><div>
</div><div>Palin’s lawsuit also claims that the Times mentioned Loughner’s attack in order to divert attention from violence against Republicans — specifically, the June 14, 2017 attack in which sniper James Hodgkinson in Washington, D.C. seriously injured Republican Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana. Palin’s lawsuit mentions that the Times, in 2017, identified Hodgkinson was a supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders — who, it should be noted, wholeheartedly condemned the attack and wished Scalise a speedy recovery.</div><div>
</div><div>The Palin filing states, “As early reports about the Hodgkinson shooting sparked speculation about whether his actions were motivated by liberal, anti-Republican political rhetoric, Mr. Bennet was outraged and decided to respond by reviving what he knew to be debunked speculation that Gov. Palin incited Loughner’s shooting. To do so, Mr. Bennet ignored his own knowledge of the facts surrounding the Loughner shooting, the well-known consensus, including within The Atlantic and the Times, that Gov. Palin’s political activities played no role in Loughner’s shooting, readily available information and articles about the Loughner shooting, and the most basic and fundamental tenants of ethical journalism.”</div><div>
</div><div>Bennet has stressed that he never said that Palin was directly responsible for Giffords’ shooting but rather, that he was making a point about the political environment in 2011.</div></div><div></div></div><div></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/09/arizona-republicans-pledge-to-stop-shooting-survivors-husband-dead-in-his-tracks/">https://www.alternet.org/2019/09/arizona-republicans-pledge-to-stop-shooting-survivors-husband-dead-in-his-tracks/</a></div><div>
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</div><div>Arizona Republicans pledge to stop shooting survivor’s husband ‘dead in his tracks’</div><div> Mark Kelly speaking with supporters at the Phoenix launch of his U.S. Senate campaign at The Van Buren in Phoenix, Arizona. By Gage Skidmore</div><div>Written by Laura Clawson / Daily Kos September 6, 2019</div><div>
</div><div>Mark Kelly’s wife, former Rep. Gabby Giffords, barely survived a mass shooting, sustaining injuries that ended her career in electoral politics. So how are Arizona Republicans trying to fundraise against Kelly as he runs for Senate? If your answer is “I don’t know yet, but I bet it’s grossly insensitive,” you win.</div><div>
</div><div>State Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward sent out a fundraising email saying that “Support the Republican Party of Arizona today and, together, we’ll stop gun-grabber Mark Kelly dead in his tracks.” The email cites a 2015 statement by Kelly that “where there are more guns, people are less safe,” a statement that’s empirically true, across states and across countries.</div><div> </div><div>So: The man’s wife was nearly killed in a mass shooting, launching him into years of advocacy against gun violence. He made a true statement, and then he ran for Senate, something his wife would probably have done had her political career not been cut short. And Republicans countered with “we’ll stop gun-grabber Mark Kelly dead in his tracks.”</div><div>
</div><div>Republicans really couldn’t be more determined to make this timeline as sordid and brutal as possible, could they?</div></div><div></div><div>
</div><div><a class="tag" href="https://boingboing.net/tag/gun-violenc...GUN VIOLENCE"></a><a class="headline" href="https://boingboing.net/2019/09/06/arizona-gop-well-stop-gu.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; margin-bottom: 0.25em; font-weight: 800; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Arizona GOP: “We'll stop gun-grabber Mark Kelly dead in his tracks” (He's married to Gabrielle Giffords, gun massacre survivor) </a><a class="byline" href="https://boingboing.net/author/xeni_jardin" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> XENI JARDIN</a></div><div>
</div><div></div><div>rwingers denounce ucb chancellorBut a darkness began massing around Loughner sometime after he dropped out of Mountain View High School in Tucson, Ariz., before his senior year. He started drinking a lot, according to Kylie Smith, who had known him since preschool. She lost contact with him between 2006 and 2008 and was stunned by how much he had changed. "He seemed out of it, like he was somewhere else," she says. "I could tell he wasn't just drunk and he wasn't just high."Was a psychiatric illness beginning? Maybe, but it's difficult to tell, because Loughner had by then used a lot of drugs — not just pot but also hallucinogens like acid, according to Smith. It was at about this time that Loughner did something odd: he worked out for months so he could join the Army. Yet after traveling to the military processing station in Phoenix, he told an Army official that he smoked marijuana excessively — which meant he would never be accepted. The weird part: he actually passed a drug test that day, so he had not been using for at least a couple of weeks.<aside class="jump" style="font-weight: bold; margin: 22px 0px; line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2041773,00.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">(See photos of the world of Jared Lee Loughner.)</a></aside>Loughner's behavior became increasingly erratic after the Army incident. Friends say he would occasionally speak in random strings of words. He had run-ins with police over drugs and his vandalization of a street sign. He became paranoid that the government was trying to control him — or everyone. He couldn't keep jobs at Quiznos and an animal shelter because he wouldn't — or could no longer — follow instructions.When classes began at Pima Community College last year, Loughner's behavior frightened fellow students from Day One. "He had this hysterical kind of laugh, laughing to himself," says Benjamin McGahee, his math professor. He would say nonsensical things about "denying math." Says McGahee: "One lady in the back of the classroom said she was scared for her life, literally."Such Stuff as Dreams
It seems clear that Loughner was developing a mental illness, but which one? Many signs point to one of the psychotic disorders — delusional disorder, say, or schizophrenia, for which the average age of onset is roughly 20, about when Loughner started showing symptoms. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders includes "substance-induced psychotic disorder," which is also a possibility in Loughner's case.<aside class="jump" style="font-weight: bold; margin: 22px 0px; line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2041733,00.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">(See six warning signs of whether someone is mentally ill.)</a></aside>By several accounts, Loughner had become fascinated with lucid dreaming, a dream state you can enter when you're half asleep. You are aware while you're in that state that you're dreaming. Loughner's interest in his lucid dreams is significant, because last year the European Science Foundation reported that lucid dreaming "creates distinct patterns of electrical activity in the brain that have similarities to the patterns made by psychotic conditions." Loughner's drug use could have kept him from falling into deep sleep and encouraged lucid dreaming. The European group said paranoid delusions can occur when lucid dreams are replayed repeatedly after the subject wakes up. Loughner was replaying his lucid dreams in an extensive dream journal, according to his friend Bryce Tierney, who spoke with Mother Jones magazine.<aside class="jump" style="font-weight: bold; margin: 22px 0px; line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,2041535,00.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">See TIME's complete coverage of the Tucson shooting.</a></aside><div></div><div>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting</div><div>
</div><div>On January 8, 2011, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">U.S. Representative</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabrielle_Giffords" title="Gabrielle Giffords" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Gabrielle Giffords</a> and eighteen others were shot during a constituent meeting held in a supermarket parking lot in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casas_Adobes,Arizona" title="Casas Adobes, Arizona" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Casas Adobes, Arizona</a>, in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucson_metropolitan_area" class="mw-redirect" title="Tucson metropolitan area" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Tucson metropolitan area</a>. Six people died, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_District_of_Arizona" title="United States District Court for the District of Arizona" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">federal District Court</a>Chief Judge <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Roll" title="John Roll" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">John Roll</a>; Gabe Zimmerman, one of Rep. Giffords' staffers; and a nine-year-old girl, Christina-Taylor Green.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-azcentral2011-01-08-optimistic-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[1]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-LaceyHerszenhorn2011-01-09-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-CNN2011-01-08-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-complaint-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[4]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-CBS-20110110-linked-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[5]</a> Giffords was holding the meeting, called "Congress on Your Corner" in the parking lot of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeway_Inc." title="Safeway Inc." style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Safeway</a> store when<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Lee_Loughner" title="Jared Lee Loughner" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Jared Lee Loughner</a> drew a pistol and shot her in the head before proceeding to fire on other people.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-LaceyHerszenhorn2011-01-09-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-CNN2011-01-08-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a>One additional person was injured in the immediate aftermath of the shooting.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-WP-20110114-victims-6" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[6]</a> News reports identified the target of the attack as Giffords, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Democrat</a>representing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona%27s_8th_congressional_district" title="Arizona's 8th congressional district" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Arizona's 8th congressional district</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-LaceyHerszenhorn2011-01-09-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a>She was shot <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penetrating_head_injury" title="Penetrating head injury" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">through the head</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-blank_range" title="Point-blank range" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">point-blank range</a>, and her <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_state" title="Medical state" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">medical condition</a> was initially described as "critical".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-LaceyHerszenhorn2011-01-09-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-CNN2011-01-08-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a>Loughner, a 22-year-old Tucson man who was fixated on Giffords, was arrested at the scene.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-Kanalley2011-01-08-7" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[7]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney" title="United States Attorney" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Federal prosecutors</a> filed five charges against him, including the attempted assassination of a member of Congress and the assassination of a federal judge.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-complaint-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[4]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-I_planned-8" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[8]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-Lacey2011-01-09-9" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[9]</a> Loughner previously had been arrested (but not convicted) once on a minor drug charge<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[10]</a>and had been suspended by his college for disruptive behavior. 
Court filings include notes handwritten by Loughner indicating he planned to assassinate Giffords.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-I_planned-8" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[8]</a> The motive for the shooting remains unclear; Loughner did not cooperate with authorities, invoking his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_silence#United_States" title="Right to silence" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">right to remain silent</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-CNN2011-01-08-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a> He was held without bail and indicted on 49 counts. In January 2012, Loughner was found by a federal judge to be<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competence(law)" title="Competence (law)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">incompetent to stand trial</a> based on two <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competency_evaluation(law)" title="Competency evaluation (law)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">medical evaluations</a>, which diagnosed him with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoid_schizophrenia" title="Paranoid schizophrenia" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">paranoid schizophrenia</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-competence-11" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[11]</a> Judged still incompetent to stand trial on May 25, finally on August 7, Loughner had a hearing at which he was judged competent. He pleaded guilty to 19 counts, and in November 2012 was sentenced to life in prison.Following the shooting, American and international politicians expressed grief and condemnations. Attention focused on the harsh political rhetoric in the United States. Some commentators blamed members of the political right wing for the shooting; in particular, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin" title="Sarah Palin" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Sarah Palin</a> was implicated because of gun-related metaphors in her speeches and because of the website of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SarahPAC" title="SarahPAC" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">her political action committee</a> which "targeted" the districts of Giffords and others with pictures of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescopic_sight" title="Telescopic sight" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">crosshairs</a> on an electoral map.Palin rejected claims that she bore responsibility for the shooting, and others defended her by noting that Loughner hated all politicians regardless of their affiliation.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-rhetoric-12" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[12]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_control" title="Gun control" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Gun control</a> advocates pushed for increased restrictions on the sale of firearms and ammunition, specifically high-capacity <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammunition_magazines" class="mw-redirect" title="Ammunition magazines" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">ammunition magazines</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-gun_control-13" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[13]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">President</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Barack Obama</a> led <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_Tucson_memorial_speech" title="Barack Obama Tucson memorial speech" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">a nationally televised memorial service</a> on January 12, and other memorials took place.
<div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#Shooting" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1Shooting</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#Investigation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2Investigation</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#Perpetrator" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2.1Perpetrator</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#Legal_proceedings" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2.2Legal proceedings</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#Victims" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3Victims</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#Gabrielle_Giffords" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.1Gabrielle Giffords</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#Reaction" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4Reaction</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#Political" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.1Political</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#Media" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.2Media</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#Memorials" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.3Memorials</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#Others" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.4Others</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#See_also" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5See also</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">....</h2></div><div>Loughner, then age 22, lived with his parents Randy and Amy Loughner in Tucson,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-Lipton2011-01-08-55" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[55]</a> about 5 miles (8.0 km) from the site of the shooting.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-MSNBC-20110108-42" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[42]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-Lipton2011-01-08-55" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[55]</a> His mother worked for the City Parks Department; his father's work was not known.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-JohnsonKirk2011-01-09-56" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[56]</a> Loughner had been attending <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pima_Community_College" title="Pima Community College" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Pima Community College</a>. Former classmates stated Loughner (at the time) cared about his education due to his appreciation of knowledge.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-JohnsonKirk2011-01-09-56" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[56]</a> Because of teacher and student complaints about Loughner's increasingly disruptive behavior in classes, the college suspended him on September 29, 2010, and he dropped out of the school in October.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-Lipton2011-01-08-55" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[55]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-JohnsonKirk2011-01-09-56" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[56]</a> Loughner chose not to return, as the college required him to have a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_health" title="Mental health" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">mental health</a>evaluation and clearance to be readmitted.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-Lipton2011-01-08-55" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[55]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-JohnsonKirk2011-01-09-56" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[56]</a>Before the shooting, Loughner had two previous offenses, one of which was for drug possession.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-Swaine2011-01-08-57" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[57]</a> He had become obsessed with Giffords,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-58" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[58]</a> and had previously met her at a "Congress on your Corner" event in a Tucson mall in August 2007.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-WSJ_20110110-59" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[59]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Army" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Army" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">U.S. Army</a> officials said that Loughner had attempted to enlist in 2008, but his application had been rejected as "unqualified" for service.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-JohnsonKirk2011-01-09-56" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[56]</a> They declined further disclosure due to confidentiality rules.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-MSNBC-20110108-42" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[42]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-Lipton2011-01-08-55" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[55]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-AZStar-20110108-60" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[60]</a> An administration official indicated to the media that Loughner had failed a drug test.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-CNN_20110110-61" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[61]</a>Loughner had been posting material online for some time via his Myspace account and on YouTube under the name "Classitup10".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-Lipton2011-01-08-55" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[55]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-CNN_Pima_County_Sheriff-62" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[62]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-Grinberg2011-01-08-63" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[63]</a> He gave his views on terrorism, federal laws, and his belief that the government was brainwashing the citizenry with language.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-Lipton2011-01-08-55" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[55]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-Swaine2011-01-08-57" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[57]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-Grinberg2011-01-08-63" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[63]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-upi-64" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[64]</a> Hours before the incident, Loughner's Myspace page was updated with posts from his account stating, "Goodbye", and said to friends: "Please don't be mad at me."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-Lipton2011-01-08-55" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[55]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-Slate-65" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[65]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-Weisenthal-66" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[66]</a>Earlier on the day of the shooting, Loughner reportedly had an altercation with his father regarding a black bag the younger man took from a car trunk.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-ABCNewsUS-67" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[67]</a> A bag matching the description was later found in a nearby desert area containing 9mm ammunition, and it is believed to belong to Loughner.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-FOX11AZ-68" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[68]</a> Later that morning, at approximately 7:30 am, Loughner was stopped by an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_Game_and_Fish_Department" title="Arizona Game and Fish Department" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Arizona Game and Fish Department</a> officer after running a red light, but was released with a reminder when it was determined that he did not have any outstanding warrants.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-ABCNewsUS-67" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[67]</a>....n the wake of the shooting, Democrats and Republicans both called for a cooling of political rhetoric and a return to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipartisanship" title="Bipartisanship" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">bipartisanship</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-rhetoric-12" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[12]</a> On the eve of the shooting, Giffords had written to a Republican friend, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trey_Grayson" title="Trey Grayson" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Trey Grayson</a>, Secretary of State of Kentucky, saying, "we need to figure out how to tone our rhetoric and partisanship down."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-123" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[123]</a> In March 2010, Giffords had expressed concern about the use of crosshairs on a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_elections,2010" title="United States elections, 2010" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">national midterm election</a> map on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin" title="Sarah Palin" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Sarah Palin</a>'s campaign webpage denoting targeted congressional seats, including Giffords's, in Arizona's 8th district. Shortly after the map's posting and the subsequent vandalizing of her office that month, Giffords said, "We're in Sarah Palin's 'targeted' list, but the thing is that the way she has it depicted, we're in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reticle" title="Reticle" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">crosshairs</a> of a gun sight over our district. When people do that, they've got to realize that there are consequences to that action." At that point in the interview, however, the interviewer said, "campaign rhetoric and war rhetoric have been interchangeable for years."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-Quinn-Gallagher-2011-01-09-21" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[21]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-nyt-vitriol-124" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[124]</a> The image was removed from Palin's "takebackthe20" website following the January shootings.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-nyt-vitriol-124" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[124]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-125" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[125]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-126" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[126]</a> Palin responded to her critics in a January 12 video, rejecting the notion that anyone other than the gunman could bear any responsibility for the Tucson shooting, and accusing the press of manufacturing a "blood libel" to blame her and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_politics" title="Right-wing politics" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">right wing</a> for the attacks.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-NYT_Zeleny-127" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[127]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-CNNbloodlibel-128" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[128]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-129" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[129]</a>The political climate in the United States and in Arizona in particular was pointed to by some observers as a possible contributing factor for the violent act. For example, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Dupnik" title="Clarence Dupnik" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Clarence Dupnik</a>, Pima County Sheriff, initially expressed concern that overheated political rhetoric and violence may be related, observing, "When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government. The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous." He believed that Arizona had unfortunately become "the capital" of such feelings. "We have become the mecca for prejudice and bigotry," he said.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-NYTimes-20110110-spotlight-130" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[130]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-131" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[131]</a> But, Dupnik later said that he had no evidence that the killings were a result of anything particular which Loughner may have read or heard.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-132" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[132]</a> International media referred to the political climate in the United States and the Palin map in particular.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-133" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[133]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-134" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[134]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-135" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[135]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-136" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[136]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-137" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[137]</a> The French newspaper <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Monde" title="Le Monde" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Le Monde</a> said that the attack seemed to confirm "an alarming premonition that has been gaining momentum for a long time: that the verbal and symbolic violence that the most radical right-wing opponents have used in their clash with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Obama administration" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Obama administration</a> would at some point lead to tragic physical violence."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-NPR-AP-2011-01-10-138" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[138]</a>
 President Obama called the shooting an "unspeakable tragedy", adding that "such a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senseless_violence" title="Senseless violence" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">senseless</a> and terrible act of violence has no place in a free society".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-Obama-WHgov-2011-01-08-139" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[139]</a> Arizona Governor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Brewer" title="Jan Brewer" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jan Brewer</a> called the attack "senseless and cruel violence"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-azcentral2011-01-08-reaction-140" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[140]</a>and House Speaker <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boehner" title="John Boehner" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John Boehner</a> said, "An attack on one who serves is an attack on all who serve. Acts and threats of violence against public officials have no place in our society".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-141" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[141]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_the_United_States" title="Chief Justice of the United States" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Chief Justice</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Roberts" title="John Roberts" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John Roberts</a> issued a statement noting, "we in the judiciary have suffered the terrible loss of one of our own", with the death of Chief Judge John Roll.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-FOX_News_Insider-142" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[142]</a>Political figures such as Arizona's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">United States Senators</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kyl" title="Jon Kyl" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jon Kyl</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-Bizjournal-143" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[143]</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain" title="John McCain" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John McCain</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-144" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[144]</a>House Majority Leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Cantor" title="Eric Cantor" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Eric Cantor</a>, House Minority Leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Nancy Pelosi</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-BBC_121144057-145" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[145]</a> issued statements. Numerous foreign politicians additionally commented on the shooting, including Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Cannon" title="Lawrence Cannon" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Lawrence Cannon</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-146" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[146]</a> British Prime Minister <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cameron" title="David Cameron" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">David Cameron</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-BBC_121144057-145" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[145]</a> Spanish Prime Minister <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Luis_Rodr%C3%ADguez_Zapatero" title="José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-Yucatan-147" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[147]</a> and Cuba's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro" title="Fidel Castro" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Fidel Castro</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-148" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[148]</a> The website GiffordsIsLying.com, run by Giffords' former opponent Jesse Kelly, was replaced with a single page urging support for Giffords and her family.Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Schumer" title="Chuck Schumer" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Chuck Schumer</a> called for a fresh look at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics" class="mw-redirect" title="Gun politics" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">gun control</a> laws in the United States, including the possibility of prohibiting the sale of high-capacity <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magazine(firearms)" title="Magazine (firearms)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">magazines</a>, and prohibiting a person who has been rejected for military service due to drug use from owning a gun.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-gun_control-13" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[13]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Homeland_Security" title="United States House Committee on Homeland Security" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Homeland Security Committee</a> chairman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_T._King" title="Peter T. King" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Peter T. King</a> announced that he would introduce a bill to ban the carrying of firearms within 1,000 feet (300 m) of certain federal officials.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-ABC-20110111-legislation-149" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[149]</a> Representative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_McCarthy" title="Carolyn McCarthy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Carolyn McCarthy</a>announced that she would introduce legislation to ban the sale of high-capacity ammunition magazines to civilians.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-CNN-20110112-capacity-150" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[150]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Media<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2011_Tucson_shooting&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Media" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Some media commentators, such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Kurtz" title="Howard Kurtz" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Howard Kurtz</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Harnden" title="Toby Harnden" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Toby Harnden</a>, criticized what they perceived as a rush to judgment about the shooter's motivation, disputing suggestions that the shooting was the result of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement" title="Tea Party movement" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Tea Party movement</a> or anything in connection to Palin.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-Kurtz2011-01-08-151" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[151]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-harnden-152" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[152]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-153" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[153]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-154" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[154]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krugman" title="Paul Krugman" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Paul Krugman</a> wrote an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op-ed" title="Op-ed" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">op-ed</a> piece arguing that political rhetoric had become toxic.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-Krugman2011-01-09-155" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[155]</a> With renewed calls to tone down political rhetoric after the shooting,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-Olbermann2011-01-08-156" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[156]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-Minora2011-01-08-157" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[157]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-Estes2011-01-11-158" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[158]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Olbermann" title="Keith Olbermann" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Keith Olbermann</a> apologized for any of his own words that might have incited violence saying, "Violence, or the threat of violence, has no place in our Democracy, and I apologize for and repudiate any act or any thing in my past that may have even inadvertently encouraged violence."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-Olbermann2011-01-08-156" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[156]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Stewart" title="Jon Stewart" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Jon Stewart</a> stated that he did not know whether or not the political environment contributed to the shooting, but, "For all the hyperbole and vitriol that's become a part of our political process—when the reality of that rhetoric, when actions match the disturbing nature of words, we haven't lost our capacity to be horrified. ... Maybe it helps us to remember to match our rhetoric with reality more often."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#cite_note-Estes2011-01-11-158" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[158]</a></div><div>==
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s the director of community outreach for Arizona Congresswoman Gabby

Giffords, UC Santa Cruz graduate Gabe Zimmerman organized and attended a

constituent event at a Tucson shopping center in January 2011. When

gunfire rang out, Zimmerman ran towards Giffords, who was the target of

the assassination attempt. Giffords, gravely wounded, survived; he did

not.

That's the kind of man Gabe was, Giffords' husband Mark Kelly said

during a private event to raise funds for an undergraduate scholarship

established in Zimmerman's name.

"He had high-minded ideas about service and democracy, and he really

deserved an entire life advancing that," said Kelly, a former astronaut

who, with his wife, is one of the nation's most visible and vocal

advocates of "common sense" gun laws.

In the weeks after the 2011 shooting, the <a href="https://socialsciences.ucsc.edu/support-us/awards/allawards/zimmerman/index.html">Gabriel Zimmerman Memorial Scholarship</a>

was established by UC Santa Cruz graduates Jonathan Klein (Merrill '89,

politics) and Alex Clemens (Porter '89, international politics), who

were moved by the tragedy. The scholarship honors Zimmerman's legacy by

supporting undergraduates who have demonstrated a commitment to public

service. Among the attendees at the fundraising event were Zimmerman's

parents, Emily Nottingham and Ross Zimmerman; UC President Janet

Napolitano; Chancellor George Blumenthal; Social Sciences Dean Katharyne

Mitchell; as well as scholarship recipients, alumni, and donors. The

event was hosted by Nion McEvoy (Porter '74, literature) at Chronicle

Books, where he is the chief executive officer.

"Gabe was a very special person in Gabby's office and Gabby's life,"

said Kelly. "He was the kind of staff member every organization would

love to have—a hard worker who was really, really good at his job."

The reception took place less than three weeks after a school shooting in Parkland, Florida, in which 17 people were killed.

Calling gun violence a "horrific problem," Kelly said, "The saddest

thing is we know how to fix it." He cited the impact of strong gun laws

in states across the country and called for a legislative approach,

acknowledging that "politics and corporate money" are formidable

opponents. Kelly hailed the young survivors of the Parkland high school

shooting, saying, "They are smart, very articulate, and they're angry.

My sense is they're not going to give up any time soon, and they're

going to be voters pretty soon."

"If Congress won't fix this problem, we need a new Congress," he said.

Giffords echoed her husband's remarks, saying, "Stopping gun violence

takes courage… I've seen great courage when my life was on the line… Be

bold, be courageous. The nation is counting on you."

Scholarship co-founder Jonathan Klein joshingly lamented having to

follow Kelly and Giffords, whom he called "American heroes," on the

program, and then invoked the Jewish concept of Tikkun Olam to describe his desire to "repair the world."

"Our country's in trouble," said Klein, but there are reasons to be

hopeful, including the emergence of youth as a powerful force. "They're

going to solve this for us," he said. "The Zimmerman scholars are the

most amazing people. Their commitment to social justice and public

service… This is how we're going to repair the world."

<a href="https://news.ucsc.edu/2012/04/careers-conscience.html">Inaugural Zimmerman Scholarship recipient</a>

Yethzell Diaz (Stevenson '12, Latin American and Latino studies and

sociology) said she, too, feels energized by youth. Diaz works as a

program manager with Digital NEST, a Watsonville-based youth empowerment

organization.

"Today's youth often get a bad rap… dismissed as apathetic and

entitled," she said. "But what I see day-to-day is what our country got a

glimpse of after the horrific events of February 14th in Parkland,

Florida," she said. "Youth are challenging notions of what's possible,

and challenging us to catch up with them."

Chancellor Blumenthal presented Zimmerman's parents with a posthumous

Distinguished Alumni Award. Zimmerman earned a degree in sociology from

Stevenson College in 2002. His mother, Emily Nottingham, credits UC

Santa Cruz with helping Gabe find his path.

"Before he was a talented adult, he was a teenager," she said, with a

smile and a sigh. In his college application essay, he wrote that his

"number one goal is to have fun and to get something accomplished along

the way."

Four years later, in a college essay, he wrote, "It is my passion to

see systemic change… to cause change in systems that are unnecessarily

hurtful."

"At UCSC, he went from being a young boy to being a man," Nottingham

recalled. He went from being caring and curious to wanting to take

action in pursuit of societal truths. Today, the scholarship in his name

identifies caring young people who want to pursue public service, and

it "takes them from dreaming to actually being change makers."

Social Sciences Dean Mitchell expressed a desire to increase the

endowment to fund a "fellowship of the fellows" that would bring Diaz

and other scholarship recipients back to campus for an annual retreat so

they can "work with each other and train the next generation."

"They'd be foot soldiers for peace, an army for peace," she said....The shooting rampage in Tucson, Arizona, that killed six people and left U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition is contributing at least momentarily to a cooling of U.S. political rhetoric.<a data-view-uid="1|0_3_1_4_1_2_4" class="bb-social-link bb-social-link--email" href="mailto:?body=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric%0ABy%20Heidi%20Przybyla%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2011-01-09%2Flawmakers-urge-end-to-political-rhetoric-after-tucson-shootings%0ABloomberg&subject=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric" rel="nofollow" data-social-network="email" data-tracker-label="email" data-tracker-action="click" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; display: block; line-height: 3rem; cursor: pointer; width: 1.875rem; height: 3rem; margin: 0px auto; border-bottom-width: 0px; background: transparent;">The incident on Jan. 8, coming after the Jan. 5 opening of a new Congress in which Republicans took control of the U.S. House, led the House to postpone legislative business for the coming week as both parties rushed to condemn the attack.</a><a data-view-uid="1|0_3_1_4_1_2_4" class="bb-social-link bb-social-link--email" href="mailto:?body=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric%0ABy%20Heidi%20Przybyla%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2011-01-09%2Flawmakers-urge-end-to-political-rhetoric-after-tucson-shootings%0ABloomberg&subject=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric" rel="nofollow" data-social-network="email" data-tracker-label="email" data-tracker-action="click" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; display: block; line-height: 3rem; cursor: pointer; width: 1.875rem; height: 3rem; margin: 0px auto; border-bottom-width: 0px; background: transparent;">It is also likely to hurt the image of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, said Ross Baker, a congressional scholar at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.</a><div data-view-uid="1|0_3_1_8" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a data-view-uid="1|0_3_1_4_1_2_4" class="bb-social-link bb-social-link--email" href="mailto:?body=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric%0ABy%20Heidi%20Przybyla%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2011-01-09%2Flawmakers-urge-end-to-political-rhetoric-after-tucson-shootings%0ABloomberg&subject=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric" rel="nofollow" data-social-network="email" data-tracker-label="email" data-tracker-action="click" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; display: block; line-height: 3rem; cursor: pointer; width: 1.875rem; height: 3rem; margin: 0px auto; border-bottom-width: 0px; background: transparent;">The former Republican vice presidential candidate has posted on the Internet a map of the U.S. with the cross-hair symbols for a rifle scope dotting the home states of lawmakers, including Giffords, whom she was targeting for defeat in the 2010 congressional election.</a><a data-view-uid="1|0_3_1_4_1_2_4" class="bb-social-link bb-social-link--email" href="mailto:?body=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric%0ABy%20Heidi%20Przybyla%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2011-01-09%2Flawmakers-urge-end-to-political-rhetoric-after-tucson-shootings%0ABloomberg&subject=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric" rel="nofollow" data-social-network="email" data-tracker-label="email" data-tracker-action="click" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; display: block; line-height: 3rem; cursor: pointer; width: 1.875rem; height: 3rem; margin: 0px auto; border-bottom-width: 0px; background: transparent;">The tragedy “will take some of the edge off of the polarization” and “will be used by lots of people as an exhortation for people to be kinder to each other,” said Baker. At the same time, Palin’s brand of “female macho,” he said, “is not going to wear very well after this.”</a><a data-view-uid="1|0_3_1_4_1_2_4" class="bb-social-link bb-social-link--email" href="mailto:?body=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric%0ABy%20Heidi%20Przybyla%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2011-01-09%2Flawmakers-urge-end-to-political-rhetoric-after-tucson-shootings%0ABloomberg&subject=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric" rel="nofollow" data-social-network="email" data-tracker-label="email" data-tracker-action="click" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; display: block; line-height: 3rem; cursor: pointer; width: 1.875rem; height: 3rem; margin: 0px auto; border-bottom-width: 0px; background: transparent;">Lawmakers were careful to stress that the suspected shooter, identified as 22-year-old Jared Loughner, has a troubled past and appears mentally unstable. Regardless of whether it is determined that Loughner also had political motivations, members of both parties said politicians and the media play a role in setting an example of civility.</a><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; margin: 1.25rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a data-view-uid="1|0_3_1_4_1_2_4" class="bb-social-link bb-social-link--email" href="mailto:?body=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric%0ABy%20Heidi%20Przybyla%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2011-01-09%2Flawmakers-urge-end-to-political-rhetoric-after-tucson-shootings%0ABloomberg&subject=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric" rel="nofollow" data-social-network="email" data-tracker-label="email" data-tracker-action="click" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; display: block; line-height: 3rem; cursor: pointer; width: 1.875rem; height: 3rem; margin: 0px auto; border-bottom-width: 0px; background: transparent;">Toxic Atmosphere</a></h2><a data-view-uid="1|0_3_1_4_1_2_4" class="bb-social-link bb-social-link--email" href="mailto:?body=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric%0ABy%20Heidi%20Przybyla%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2011-01-09%2Flawmakers-urge-end-to-political-rhetoric-after-tucson-shootings%0ABloomberg&subject=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric" rel="nofollow" data-social-network="email" data-tracker-label="email" data-tracker-action="click" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; display: block; line-height: 3rem; cursor: pointer; width: 1.875rem; height: 3rem; margin: 0px auto; border-bottom-width: 0px; background: transparent;">“We are in a dark place in this country right now; the atmospheric condition is toxic,” Representative Emanuel Cleaver, a Missouri Democrat, said yesterday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” program. “Much of it originates here in Washington D.C., and we export it around the country.”</a><div data-view-uid="1|0_3_1_9" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a data-view-uid="1|0_3_1_4_1_2_4" class="bb-social-link bb-social-link--email" href="mailto:?body=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric%0ABy%20Heidi%20Przybyla%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2011-01-09%2Flawmakers-urge-end-to-political-rhetoric-after-tucson-shootings%0ABloomberg&subject=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric" rel="nofollow" data-social-network="email" data-tracker-label="email" data-tracker-action="click" style="text-align: left; 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line-height: 3rem; cursor: pointer; width: 1.875rem; height: 3rem; margin: 0px auto; border-bottom-width: 0px; background: transparent;">“We ought to cool it, tone it down, treat each other with great respect,” Tennessee Republican Senator Lamar Alexander said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”</a><a data-view-uid="1|0_3_1_4_1_2_4" class="bb-social-link bb-social-link--email" href="mailto:?body=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric%0ABy%20Heidi%20Przybyla%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2011-01-09%2Flawmakers-urge-end-to-political-rhetoric-after-tucson-shootings%0ABloomberg&subject=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric" rel="nofollow" data-social-network="email" data-tracker-label="email" data-tracker-action="click" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; display: block; line-height: 3rem; cursor: pointer; width: 1.875rem; height: 3rem; margin: 0px auto; border-bottom-width: 0px; background: transparent;">House Speaker John Boehner ordered flags on the House side of the U.S. Capitol flown at half-staff to commemorate those killed, who included U.S. District Judge John Roll. “An attack on one who serves is an attack on all who serve,” Boehner said at a press conference yesterday in West Chester, Ohio. “Such acts of violence have no place in our society.”</a><a data-view-uid="1|0_3_1_4_1_2_4" class="bb-social-link bb-social-link--email" href="mailto:?body=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric%0ABy%20Heidi%20Przybyla%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2011-01-09%2Flawmakers-urge-end-to-political-rhetoric-after-tucson-shootings%0ABloomberg&subject=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric" rel="nofollow" data-social-network="email" data-tracker-label="email" data-tracker-action="click" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; display: block; line-height: 3rem; cursor: pointer; width: 1.875rem; height: 3rem; margin: 0px auto; border-bottom-width: 0px; background: transparent;">Senator Mike Lee, a newly elected Republican from Utah interviewed on CNN, said “any time you have political rhetoric that rises to the level of personal, you have a problem.”</a><a data-view-uid="1|0_3_1_4_1_2_4" class="bb-social-link bb-social-link--email" href="mailto:?body=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric%0ABy%20Heidi%20Przybyla%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2011-01-09%2Flawmakers-urge-end-to-political-rhetoric-after-tucson-shootings%0ABloomberg&subject=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric" rel="nofollow" data-social-network="email" data-tracker-label="email" data-tracker-action="click" style="text-align: left; 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The House had planned to vote Jan. 12 on a repeal of Obama’s health-care overhaul. The House instead will consider that day at least one resolution honoring Giffords and other victims in the attack, according to Cantor’s office.</a><a data-view-uid="1|0_3_1_4_1_2_4" class="bb-social-link bb-social-link--email" href="mailto:?body=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric%0ABy%20Heidi%20Przybyla%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2011-01-09%2Flawmakers-urge-end-to-political-rhetoric-after-tucson-shootings%0ABloomberg&subject=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric" rel="nofollow" data-social-network="email" data-tracker-label="email" data-tracker-action="click" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; display: block; line-height: 3rem; cursor: pointer; width: 1.875rem; height: 3rem; margin: 0px auto; border-bottom-width: 0px; background: transparent;">President Barack Obama has postponed a Jan. 11 trip to Schenectady, New York, and called for a national moment of silence today at 11 a.m. Eastern time.</a><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1em; margin: 1.25rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a data-view-uid="1|0_3_1_4_1_2_4" class="bb-social-link bb-social-link--email" href="mailto:?body=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric%0ABy%20Heidi%20Przybyla%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2011-01-09%2Flawmakers-urge-end-to-political-rhetoric-after-tucson-shootings%0ABloomberg&subject=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric" rel="nofollow" data-social-network="email" data-tracker-label="email" data-tracker-action="click" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; display: block; line-height: 3rem; cursor: pointer; width: 1.875rem; height: 3rem; margin: 0px auto; border-bottom-width: 0px; background: transparent;">Sarah Palin</a></h2><a data-view-uid="1|0_3_1_4_1_2_4" class="bb-social-link bb-social-link--email" href="mailto:?body=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric%0ABy%20Heidi%20Przybyla%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2011-01-09%2Flawmakers-urge-end-to-political-rhetoric-after-tucson-shootings%0ABloomberg&subject=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric" rel="nofollow" data-social-network="email" data-tracker-label="email" data-tracker-action="click" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; display: block; line-height: 3rem; cursor: pointer; width: 1.875rem; height: 3rem; margin: 0px auto; border-bottom-width: 0px; background: transparent;">The shooting put a spotlight on Palin. Last year, Giffords was one of 20 Democrats who supported health-care legislation who were targeted on the crosshairs map for defeat by Palin’s political action committee, SarahPAC, in last November’s elections.</a><a data-view-uid="1|0_3_1_4_1_2_4" class="bb-social-link bb-social-link--email" href="mailto:?body=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric%0ABy%20Heidi%20Przybyla%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2011-01-09%2Flawmakers-urge-end-to-political-rhetoric-after-tucson-shootings%0ABloomberg&subject=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric" rel="nofollow" data-social-network="email" data-tracker-label="email" data-tracker-action="click" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; display: block; line-height: 3rem; cursor: pointer; width: 1.875rem; height: 3rem; margin: 0px auto; border-bottom-width: 0px; background: transparent;">An aide to Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, said the images were never meant to evoke violence. “We never ever, ever intended it to be gun sights,” Rebecca Mansour told the talk radio host Tammy Bruce in an interview transcribed by the Alaska Dispatch.</a><a data-view-uid="1|0_3_1_4_1_2_4" class="bb-social-link bb-social-link--email" href="mailto:?body=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric%0ABy%20Heidi%20Przybyla%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2011-01-09%2Flawmakers-urge-end-to-political-rhetoric-after-tucson-shootings%0ABloomberg&subject=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric" rel="nofollow" data-social-network="email" data-tracker-label="email" data-tracker-action="click" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; display: block; line-height: 3rem; cursor: pointer; width: 1.875rem; height: 3rem; margin: 0px auto; border-bottom-width: 0px; background: transparent;">Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, the chamber’s No. 2 Democrat, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that such images aren’t helpful. “These sorts of things, I think, invite the kind of toxic rhetoric that can lead unstable people to believe this is an acceptable response.”</a><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; margin: 1.25rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a data-view-uid="1|0_3_1_4_1_2_4" class="bb-social-link bb-social-link--email" href="mailto:?body=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric%0ABy%20Heidi%20Przybyla%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2011-01-09%2Flawmakers-urge-end-to-political-rhetoric-after-tucson-shootings%0ABloomberg&subject=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric" rel="nofollow" data-social-network="email" data-tracker-label="email" data-tracker-action="click" style="text-align: left; 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line-height: 3rem; cursor: pointer; width: 1.875rem; height: 3rem; margin: 0px auto; border-bottom-width: 0px; background: transparent;">Conservative public relations executive Keith Appell issued a statement saying “some in the media have implicated conservatives, the Tea Party, talk radio, Republicans, etc., by extension” in the shooting and that those efforts are “insidious, dishonest and divorced from reality.” He cited a posting on the Website redstate.com saying the media is trying to blame conservatives for the shootings.</a><a data-view-uid="1|0_3_1_4_1_2_4" class="bb-social-link bb-social-link--email" href="mailto:?body=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric%0ABy%20Heidi%20Przybyla%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2011-01-09%2Flawmakers-urge-end-to-political-rhetoric-after-tucson-shootings%0ABloomberg&subject=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric" rel="nofollow" data-social-network="email" data-tracker-label="email" data-tracker-action="click" style="text-align: left; 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box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; display: block; line-height: 3rem; cursor: pointer; width: 1.875rem; height: 3rem; margin: 0px auto; border-bottom-width: 0px; background: transparent;">“It’s not just our personal safety that matters, it’s also the personal safety of our constituents,” she said on the “Meet the Press” program. “We need to strike a balance.”</a><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; margin: 1.25rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a data-view-uid="1|0_3_1_4_1_2_4" class="bb-social-link bb-social-link--email" href="mailto:?body=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric%0ABy%20Heidi%20Przybyla%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2011-01-09%2Flawmakers-urge-end-to-political-rhetoric-after-tucson-shootings%0ABloomberg&subject=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric" rel="nofollow" data-social-network="email" data-tracker-label="email" data-tracker-action="click" style="text-align: left; 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line-height: 3rem; cursor: pointer; width: 1.875rem; height: 3rem; margin: 0px auto; border-bottom-width: 0px; background: transparent;">Still, some security experts are cautioning there are no easy solutions. “It’s impossible to stop,” William Pickle, a former Senate Sergeant at Arms, said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”</a><a data-view-uid="1|0_3_1_4_1_2_4" class="bb-social-link bb-social-link--email" href="mailto:?body=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric%0ABy%20Heidi%20Przybyla%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2011-01-09%2Flawmakers-urge-end-to-political-rhetoric-after-tucson-shootings%0ABloomberg&subject=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric" rel="nofollow" data-social-network="email" data-tracker-label="email" data-tracker-action="click" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; display: block; line-height: 3rem; cursor: pointer; width: 1.875rem; height: 3rem; margin: 0px auto; border-bottom-width: 0px; background: transparent;">“Until candidates stop campaigning, these things are going to continue to happen,” said Pickle, who also said there aren’t resources to protect 535 congressmen and senators.</a><a data-view-uid="1|0_3_1_4_1_2_4" class="bb-social-link bb-social-link--email" href="mailto:?body=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric%0ABy%20Heidi%20Przybyla%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2011-01-09%2Flawmakers-urge-end-to-political-rhetoric-after-tucson-shootings%0ABloomberg&subject=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric" rel="nofollow" data-social-network="email" data-tracker-label="email" data-tracker-action="click" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; display: block; line-height: 3rem; cursor: pointer; width: 1.875rem; height: 3rem; margin: 0px auto; border-bottom-width: 0px; background: transparent;">Boehner said he has asked the House’s Sergeant at Arms, U.S. Capitol Police and the FBI to conduct a security overview for members on Jan. 12.</a><a data-view-uid="1|0_3_1_4_1_2_4" class="bb-social-link bb-social-link--email" href="mailto:?body=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric%0ABy%20Heidi%20Przybyla%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2011-01-09%2Flawmakers-urge-end-to-political-rhetoric-after-tucson-shootings%0ABloomberg&subject=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric" rel="nofollow" data-social-network="email" data-tracker-label="email" data-tracker-action="click" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; display: block; line-height: 3rem; cursor: pointer; width: 1.875rem; height: 3rem; margin: 0px auto; border-bottom-width: 0px; background: transparent;">Giffords, 40, herself warned last year about the tone of the rhetoric in her district after her office was vandalized.</a><a data-view-uid="1|0_3_1_4_1_2_4" class="bb-social-link bb-social-link--email" href="mailto:?body=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric%0ABy%20Heidi%20Przybyla%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2011-01-09%2Flawmakers-urge-end-to-political-rhetoric-after-tucson-shootings%0ABloomberg&subject=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric" rel="nofollow" data-social-network="email" data-tracker-label="email" data-tracker-action="click" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; display: block; line-height: 3rem; cursor: pointer; width: 1.875rem; height: 3rem; margin: 0px auto; border-bottom-width: 0px; background: transparent;">“The way that she has it depicted has the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district. When people do that, they have to realize that there are consequences to that action,” Giffords said in an interview with MSNBC.</a><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; margin: 1.25rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a data-view-uid="1|0_3_1_4_1_2_4" class="bb-social-link bb-social-link--email" href="mailto:?body=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric%0ABy%20Heidi%20Przybyla%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2011-01-09%2Flawmakers-urge-end-to-political-rhetoric-after-tucson-shootings%0ABloomberg&subject=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric" rel="nofollow" data-social-network="email" data-tracker-label="email" data-tracker-action="click" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; display: block; line-height: 3rem; cursor: pointer; width: 1.875rem; height: 3rem; margin: 0px auto; border-bottom-width: 0px; background: transparent;">Tea Party</a></h2><a data-view-uid="1|0_3_1_4_1_2_4" class="bb-social-link bb-social-link--email" href="mailto:?body=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric%0ABy%20Heidi%20Przybyla%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2011-01-09%2Flawmakers-urge-end-to-political-rhetoric-after-tucson-shootings%0ABloomberg&subject=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric" rel="nofollow" data-social-network="email" data-tracker-label="email" data-tracker-action="click" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; display: block; line-height: 3rem; cursor: pointer; width: 1.875rem; height: 3rem; margin: 0px auto; border-bottom-width: 0px; background: transparent;">Her father told the New York Post that “the whole Tea Party” was her enemy, referring to the loose-knit national group pressing for smaller government and less taxes.</a><a data-view-uid="1|0_3_1_4_1_2_4" class="bb-social-link bb-social-link--email" href="mailto:?body=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric%0ABy%20Heidi%20Przybyla%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2011-01-09%2Flawmakers-urge-end-to-political-rhetoric-after-tucson-shootings%0ABloomberg&subject=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric" rel="nofollow" data-social-network="email" data-tracker-label="email" data-tracker-action="click" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; display: block; line-height: 3rem; cursor: pointer; width: 1.875rem; height: 3rem; margin: 0px auto; border-bottom-width: 0px; background: transparent;">Giffords, first elected to her seat in 2006, narrowly won a third term in November over a Tea-Party backed Republican.</a><a data-view-uid="1|0_3_1_4_1_2_4" class="bb-social-link bb-social-link--email" href="mailto:?body=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric%0ABy%20Heidi%20Przybyla%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2011-01-09%2Flawmakers-urge-end-to-political-rhetoric-after-tucson-shootings%0ABloomberg&subject=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric" rel="nofollow" data-social-network="email" data-tracker-label="email" data-tracker-action="click" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; display: block; line-height: 3rem; cursor: pointer; width: 1.875rem; height: 3rem; margin: 0px auto; border-bottom-width: 0px; background: transparent;">Representative Raul Labrador, a newly elected Republican from Idaho elected with Tea Party support, said on “Meet the Press” that a level of vitriol exists on both sides of the ideological divide.</a><a data-view-uid="1|0_3_1_4_1_2_4" class="bb-social-link bb-social-link--email" href="mailto:?body=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric%0ABy%20Heidi%20Przybyla%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2011-01-09%2Flawmakers-urge-end-to-political-rhetoric-after-tucson-shootings%0ABloomberg&subject=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric" rel="nofollow" data-social-network="email" data-tracker-label="email" data-tracker-action="click" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; 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text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; display: block; line-height: 3rem; cursor: pointer; width: 1.875rem; height: 3rem; margin: 0px auto; border-bottom-width: 0px; background: transparent;">Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, whose jurisdiction includes Tucson, said yesterday that while officials don’t know the gunman’s motives, he was concerned about extreme rhetoric in the U.S.</a><a data-view-uid="1|0_3_1_4_1_2_4" class="bb-social-link bb-social-link--email" href="mailto:?body=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric%0ABy%20Heidi%20Przybyla%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2011-01-09%2Flawmakers-urge-end-to-political-rhetoric-after-tucson-shootings%0ABloomberg&subject=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric" rel="nofollow" data-social-network="email" data-tracker-label="email" data-tracker-action="click" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; 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This has become the Mecca for bigotry and prejudice.”</a><a data-view-uid="1|0_3_1_4_1_2_4" class="bb-social-link bb-social-link--email" href="mailto:?body=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric%0ABy%20Heidi%20Przybyla%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2011-01-09%2Flawmakers-urge-end-to-political-rhetoric-after-tucson-shootings%0ABloomberg&subject=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric" rel="nofollow" data-social-network="email" data-tracker-label="email" data-tracker-action="click" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; display: block; line-height: 3rem; cursor: pointer; width: 1.875rem; height: 3rem; margin: 0px auto; border-bottom-width: 0px; background: transparent;">Representative Trent Franks, an Arizona Republican, said on “Meet the Press” that Loughner is “a deranged lunatic that had no respect for his fellow human beings and completely rejected any kind of constitutional foundation of this nation</a></div></div><div><a data-view-uid="1|0_3_1_4_1_2_4" class="bb-social-link bb-social-link--email" href="mailto:?body=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric%0ABy%20Heidi%20Przybyla%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2011-01-09%2Flawmakers-urge-end-to-political-rhetoric-after-tucson-shootings%0ABloomberg&subject=Giffords%20Shooting%20in%20Arizona%20May%20Soften%20U.S.%20Political%20Rhetoric" rel="nofollow" data-social-network="email" data-tracker-label="email" data-tracker-action="click" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; display: block; line-height: 3rem; cursor: pointer; width: 1.875rem; height: 3rem; margin: 0px auto; border-bottom-width: 0px; background: transparent;">==</a></div></div></div>