Arizona Congresswoman Shot at Grocery Store Event

O Si Yo Annie ("hello" in Cherokee lingo) This is bad ... all bad! When speaking of the Sharron Angles many of whom have actually taken their seats in congress, all that I can say is that they've lost their compasses in the woods somewhere!! To make repealing a foundational universal healthcare system their (republicans) first order of business is immoral. Something so immorally wrong could never be legally right. At the swearing in of GW Bush, I expected awful things to happen to this nation and its people ... I am revisited by those same awful feelings as "conservatives" take their congressional seats!!

The Huffington Post, The Daily Kos and thousands of Tweeters and commenters on news sites declared this to be a crazed Tea Partier before there was any information about the shooter at all. It seems that you and all of them are very, very wrong. I have watched all of this man's youtube videos and seen screenshots of his MySpace page (now removed). He is very obviously mentally disturbed. However, he is not Tea Partier, nor a devotee of Angle or Palin or Glenn Beck, even though thousands of people across the internet have already blamed all of them. His Youtube videos contain badly framed syllogisms. He states "I will not trust in God". He states his religion is "none". He lists amongst his favorite books The Communist Manifesto, Mein Kampf and Brave New World. Sound like a Tea Party member to you? Here's a tweet from someone who claims to actually know Jared Loughner, the shooter. "@antderosa As I knew him he was left wing, quite liberal & oddly obsessed with the 2012 prophecy" So, give it up, Annie. Not a right winger, not a conservative, not a member of the Tea Party and he didn't get his orders from Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin. He was a wacko.

I think there is a definite connection between Sharron Angle's ravings and this shooting. Let's also not forget that Sarah Palin sent out campaign lterature showing Congresswoman Gifford's district under the hairlines of a rifle and NOW Sarah asks us to pray for the victims. There will be a lot of folks on here insisting that because this guy is a rambling wacho (What gunman isn't?) with no concrete political ties, there is no connection to a movement or a politician. I'm not one of them. Who but the nuts will be influenced by the tactics of politicians like Angle and Palin? Do they think they are reaching out to the intelligent? the thoughtful? the compassionate? the fairminded? I think they they are rabbleroussing and this nut is THEIR nut whether he belongs to one of their organizations or not. He is exactly what they have pandered to and he IS carrying out Sharron's "second amendment remedies". What really sickens me is the way so many of us are tolerating irresponsible statements and campaigning. Outside of the campaign antics of racist, clan sponsered politics, when has there ever been so much hate and iressponsiblity on the part of major canidates? Can you imagine IKE or JFK or Eisenhower publicly dealing this way with their opponents?

I am still boycotting Arizona so Anything to do with that State angers me. The first thought I had was that a Pi$$ed off maniac thought getting rid of a congress person was a way to say.... What? I'm so bias I never even thought there were any Democrats in the state of Arizona! so I'm at a lost.

I don't think Sharron Angle was talking about nutcases flying off the handle and killing people. This guy was just as nuts as the loony toon who flew his private plane into the IRS building in Austin.

that's awful. least they've caught the shooter.

Yup! This news spread all over the internet and on TV. This is a kind of disaster for innocent people being killed with no knowledge about the concept of why they need to sacrifice for the sin of others... The investigation not come up if the events is a political incarceration or a matter of violence indulge by that person doing the crimes...

No, it's a deranged idiot acting out, not a "second amendment remedy".

I have been following it on the news all afternoon. A nine year old was killed and a judge. This is so tragic.

i am not aware of this.