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#1 Click this link to see Blog page --> 01/10/2011

I have been following the news about the Tuscon, AZ, shooting and still can’t quite formulate a response that could explain how to avoid this insanity. #Shooting2011TucsonAZ

I don’t think we should censor speech but I can’t understand how the Right Wing Nuts can’t understand that their hate speech has to be a contributing factor. I don’t know what the answer is really but I found these links interesting in the way they highlight the false equivalence of the wingnuts in trying to say they are no worse at hate speech. They are. Very much so.

Hostile Intent: Right Wing Media Doth Protest Too Much

Fox News: The No. 1 Name in Murder Fantasies

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#2 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 01/09/2012 #2

Representative Gabrielle Giffords led a crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance, her words ringing out across a cold Tucson night in a rare public appearance Sunday evening at a candlelight vigil one year after surviving a deadly shooting that killed six. Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who suffered a head wound in the Tuscon shooting, smiles after reciting the Pledge of Allegiance at a memorial service marking the anniversary of the shooting, at the University of Arizona campus, January 8th 2012.
Gabrielle Dee “Gabby” Giffords #GabrielleGiffords
2011 Tucson Shooting #Shooting2011TucsonAZ

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#3 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 11/10/2012 #1

Former Dimocrat Representative Gabrielle Giffords, left, and her husband Mark Kelly leave after the sentencing of Jared Loughner, in back of U.S. District Court Thursday, November 8th 2012, in Tucson, AZ. U.S. District Judge Larry Burns sentenced Jared Lee Loughner, 24, to life in prison, for the January 2011 attack that left six people dead and Giffords and others wounded. Loughner pleaded guilty to federal charges under an agreement that guarantees he will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Gabrielle Dee “Gabby” Giffords #GabrielleGiffords
Jared Lee Loughner #JaredLoughner
2011 Tucson Shooting #Shooting2011TucsonAZ

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#4 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 01/09/2013 #2

Guns are piled inside a crate outside a police station in Tucson, AZ, on Tuesday, Jan 8th 2013, during Tucson City Councilman Steve Kozachik’s gun buy back program. Kozachik asked people to turn in their guns for a $50 gift certificate to a grocery store. Tuesday marked the second anniversary of when a gunman opened fire on former Representative. Gabrielle Giffords as she met with constituents in 2011, killing six people and leaving twelve others injured.
2011 Tucson Shooting #Shooting2011TucsonAZ

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#5 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 01/08/2022 #15

In 2011, Gabrielle Dee “Gabby” Giffords, D-AZ, was shot and critically wounded when a gunman opened fire as the congresswoman met with constituents in Tucson; six people were killed, twelve others also injured. (Gunman Jared Lee Loughner was sentenced in Nov. 2012 to seven consecutive life sentences, plus 140 years.) 2011 Tucson Shooting #GabrielleGiffords #JaredLoughner #Shooting2011TucsonAZ
#GabrielleGiffords #JaredLoughner #Shooting2011TucsonAZ

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#6 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 01/08/2022 #16

In 2012, bells rang in Tucson, AZ, as residents paused to remember the six people killed in the shooting rampage a year earlier that left U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Dee “Gabby” Giffords severely wounded; Giffords led a crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance during an evening vigil. #GabrielleGiffords 2011 Tucson Shooting #Shooting2011TucsonAZ
#GabrielleGiffords #Shooting2011TucsonAZ

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#7 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 01/11/2022 #14

In 2011, during a public Mass at St. Odilia Catholic Church in Tucson, AZ, several hundred mourners remembered the victims of the shooting rampage that killed six people and wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. #Shooting2011TucsonAZ
#Shooting2011TucsonAZ

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#8 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 01/12/2022 #15

In 2011, Obummer visited Tucson, AZ, the scene of a shooting rampage that wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed six others; he urged Americans to refrain from partisan bickering and to embrace the idealistic vision of democracy held by nine-year-old Christina Taylor Green, the youngest of the victims. 2011 Tucson Shooting #Shooting2011TucsonAZ

#Obummer was well orchestrated for #DisasterPorn. Stand at a podium with a disaster in the background, make well meaning noises, shed a few tears and bow to the applause.

#Obummer #DisasterPorn #Shooting2011TucsonAZ

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#9 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 01/13/2022 #14

In 2011, a funeral was held in Tucson, AZ, for nine-year-old Christina Taylor Green, the youngest victim of a mass shooting that also claimed five other lives and critically wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. #Shooting2011TucsonAZ
#Shooting2011TucsonAZ

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#10 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 01/24/2022 #18

In 2011, in his second court appearance, Jared Lee Loughner pleaded not guilty in Phoenix to federal charges he’d tried to kill U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and two of her aides in a Tucson shooting rampage that had claimed six lives. #JaredLoughner #Shooting2011TucsonAZ
#JaredLoughner #Shooting2011TucsonAZ

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