{"id":4602,"date":"2011-01-08T18:24:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T23:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=4602"},"modified":"2011-01-09T11:43:35","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T16:43:35","slug":"inevitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/08\/inevitable\/","title":{"rendered":"inevitable…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hospital: Rep. Giffords expected to recover from Tucson shooting that killed six including a child and federal judge<\/a>
Washington Post<\/strong>
By Shailagh Murray, David Fahrenthold
January 8, 2011<\/div>\n

\"RepresentativeTucson – The surgeon who operated on Arizona Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords said he was "optimistic" she would recover from being shot in the head by a man with a semi-automatic weapon outside a grocery store. Six others at the congressional outreach event did not. <\/p>\n

\"JudgeFederal law enforcement sources said that John M. Roll, the senior U.S. District judge in Arizona, was shot and killed in the incident. The Pima County Sheriff’s office said that five others including a nine-year-old child had died, and a total of 18 people were injured. In brief public remarks, President Obama said he had dispatched F.B.I. director Robert Mueller to the scene. <\/p>\n

A 22-year old man was taken into custody after being tackled by people in the small crowd after the shooting. One pistol was recovered and it had what police described as "an extended clip." The man was identified as Jared Loughner, who appears to have left a trail of Internet postings, including some that express convoluted observations about government. Law enforcement officials said they believed he was a military veteran. <\/p>\n

Giffords, who in November narrowly won reelection to a third term, was hosting her first "Congress on Your Corner" event when a gunman ran up and began shooting her and others in her entourage with a Glock handgun, according to law enforcement sources…<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
I doubt that most of the public officials who fanned the flames of racism here in the South in the late 1950s and 1960s wanted people to kill the kids in Philadelphia Mississippi, or assasinate Medger Evers  in Jackson, or blow up those little girls in the 16th Street Church in Birmingham. I expect they were even sorry those things happened [primarily because of the reaction]. But they were as much a part of those deaths as the people who pulled the trigger – at least that’s the way they remain in my mind.<\/div>\n

What happened today was inevitable. We’ve all known that since the 2008 election. We can hear it in things like the comments<\/font><\/strong><\/a> I posted last night, see it in Ms. Palin’s Map<\/font><\/strong><\/a> and Giffords’ opponent’s ad<\/font><\/strong><\/a>, smell it in the talk show rhetoric. When the call comes from above, there’s always someone sick enough to hear it in the audience. It’s sounding like Jared Laughner is just such a disturbed person.<\/p>\n

It’s not a time to make political mileage against the people who stir up this kind of insanity. It’s time to hope they have the decency to put their weight behind stopping it. Ralph comments<\/strong><\/a> on my last post, speaking about today’s shooting, "‘Ideological rage’ in spades. Whether it had anything to do with the case the judge decided or just anti-government in general — we’re in for a good siege of it.<\/em>" I hope he’s wrong, but I’m also afraid he’s right.<\/div>\n
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Good News<\/font><\/strong><\/a>: State Sen. Linda Lopez, a close friend of Giffords’, told Fox News that the three-term congresswoman was shot in the temple and the bullet exited through her forehead. Lopez said Giffords was responding to commands<\/strong>…<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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