During the fall campaign, Sarah Palin, the former Republican vice-presidential candidate, posted a controversial map on her Facebook page depicting spots where Democrats were running for re-election; those Democrats were noted by crosshairs symbols like those seen through the scope of a gun. Ms. Giffords was among those on Ms. Palin’s map.The Arizona member of Congress was shot through the head today. The bullet entered her head on one side and came out the other. One of her staff was killed. A federal judge was killed. A nine year year old child was killed. Others are reported dead and twelve more injured.
Mrs Palin and her raging rallies, and the others who have countenanced threats and intimidation expressed at conservative events, have these people's blood on their hands.A Christianist hate blog here in SC- typically- abandons any pretense of prayer or charity and blames the shooter as a liberal, based on a crackpot WorldNetDaily story that claimed the alleged shooter counted Mein Kampf as a favorite book.
UPDATE from Andrew Sullivan:
Giffords warned of this:
"They really need to realize that the rhetoric and firing people up, and, you know, even things for example, we're on Sarah Palin's targeted list, but the thing is, that the way that she has it depicted has the crosshairs of a gunsight over our district. When people do that, you gotta realize there's consequences to that action."
3.49 pm Various Palin sites are frantically removing various incendiary materials - which is both gratifying, but also, it seems to me, an acknowledgment of previous rhetorical excess. TakeBackThe20.com is in meltdown, images like these are being removed ASAP, and Palin's Facebook page simply cannot cope with the number of commenters blasting her.
3.41 pm A local Giffords campaign office had a brick thrown through the window last spring.
3.35 pm A campaign notice from Giffords' opponent last summer:
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How many political candidates hold an automatic rifle in their open crotch in order to demonstrate their ideological bone fides? The conflation of conservatism with the willingness to use violence depressingly deepens.
3.31 pm A reader writes:
I am standing in the aisle at Costco when I found out my Congresswomen, Gabrielle Giffords, has been shot dead up on the north side.UPDATE: FITSNews complains others are trying to assign blame based on politics while they do the same thing, if incompletely (next time they claim to be the news leader of the state, ask why they can't complete sentences):
While I’m scrambling with my phone, two couples in front of me are talking about it and suddenly I hear one of the women say, “Well, that’s to be expected when you’re so liberal.”
And the other woman says, “Ohh, so we get to appoint a Republican?”
We can’t stand big government and the politicians who support it around here, but no matter how awful the government’s gang-rape of taxpayers has been over the last decade, the notion that murder is the answer is utterly
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