January 8, 2011

[Ptah]

On January 8, 2011, U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords and
eighteen others were shot during a constituent meeting held in a
supermarket parking lot in Casas Adobes, Arizona, in the Tucson
metropolitan area. Six people died, including federal District Court
Chief Judge John Roll; Gabe Zimmerman, one of Giffords' staffers;
and a nine-year-old girl, Christina-Taylor Green. Giffords was holding
the meeting, called "Congress on Your Corner", in the parking lot of a
Safeway store when Jared Lee Loughner drew a pistol and shot her in
the head before proceeding to fire on other people. One additional
person was injured in the immediate aftermath of the shooting. News
reports identified the target of the attack to be Giffords, a Democrat
representing Arizona's 8th congressional district. She was shot through
the head at point-blank range, and her medical condition was initially
described as "critical".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting

[Ptah]

1. gratuitous kick.

[smirkymonkey]

2. K&R

So tragic. Just another young, male psycho (possibly mentally ill) with a gun that he should never have been able to obtain. All the deaths were such a loss, but it's just terrible that 9 year-old Christina Taylor-Green never even got a chance to have a life. She was born on Sept 11th, 2001 and was determined to go into politics and help people who were less fortunate live better lives.

I am just glad that the perpetrator will never get out of prison as long as he lives.