Check out the Independent UK's take on the Giffords shooting.......

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......I doubt that any of our media is reporting it quite this way.



US Congresswoman shot in gun rampage
Representative who beat Tea Party rival 'gravely wounded' in shopping mall bloodbath that leaves at least six dead

By David Usborne in New York



A Democratic Congresswoman, Gabrielle Giffords, who had been the target of often incendiary rhetoric from the Tea Party, was gravely wounded in a Tucson hospital last night after she was shot in the head at a political gathering in her constituency in Tucson, Arizona.

A spokeswoman for an area hospital said that Representative Giffords remained in critical condition after surgery. At least 18 people were struck in the fusillade and as many as six were dead, among them a federal judge and a child. Others remained in grave condition. Police said that the suspected gunman had been taken into custody and named him as Jared Lee Loughner. Officials were unable to offer specific information on what his motive may have been. The Congresswoman had fought a hard election in November, barely fending off a Tea Party opponent.

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The shooting of Rep Giffords, 40, who is married to a Nasa astronaut and space shuttle commander, is both a personal tragedy and a political one that is likely to cast a dark shadow on the American electoral scene, particularly if there is any credible suggestion that the assailant was incited to violence by anti-liberal sentiments from Tea Party zealots. Already last night, an intense debate had begun about the changing tone of political discourse in America that can seem sometimes to veer into extreme language that could incite violence.

It could also potentially damage Sarah Palin, a figurehead of the Tea Party, who had identified Rep Giffords as one of the Democratic members of Congress she wanted to see defeated in November's mid-term elections. Ms Palin's Facebook page at one point featured cross-hair symbols superimposed over the constituencies of Rep Giffords and others. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-congresswoman-shot-in-gun-rampage-2179839.html

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1. This country has the only media outlet that refuses to see the truth.

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2. KnR for visibility. n/t