This is awful. It was a constituent event. The newpaper's website appears to be overloaded. Here's an NPR report:

Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Shot In Arizona : NPR:

The Democrat, who was re-elected to her third term in November, was hosting a "Congress on Your Corner" event at the Safeway in northwest Tucson when a gunman ran up and started shooting, according to Peter Michaels, news director of Arizona Public Media.

Several other people were shot.

Eyewitnesses on CNN reporting multiple shots fired and multiple fatalities on the scene.

Reports that Rep. Giffords has died.

UPDATE: Her and 12 others casualties, 6 killed, 6 injured, according to reports.

(edited for accuracy)

Sarah Palin, domestic terrorist: (link...)

Palin has issued a statement:

"My sincere condolences are offered to the family of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the other victims of today's tragic shooting in Arizona.

On behalf of Todd and my family, we all pray for the victims and their families, and for peace and justice."

Ad by Giffords' opponent...

Maybe not fair, surely unrelated. But these bastards set the tone. Should probably take a breath though and wait to find out more about the shooter.

Updated casualty count - Pima County Sheriff now saying 18 either killed or wounded.

Cops are now saying a second suspect has been arrested and a third is being sought.

Hospital spokesman said that her wound was a single shot, through the head (thankfully... it's when those su.

They confirm one dead at University hospital, a nine month old child.

“When you represent a district that includes the homes of the O.K Corral and Tombstone, ‘The Town Too Tough to Die,’ nothing’s a surprise out in Cochise County,” Giffords said (link...)

Caitie Parker "I haven't seen him since 07. Then he was left wing."

"This is a circus. Good Morning America just called me." (link...)

KAG: My Kids Would Be Expelled If They Posted Hitlist Like Palin’s

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Disgusting.

That's just stupid.
"You're dead to me" is an old, brutal figure of speech. Do you think cutting you dead means I stabbed you?
Or that knocking your block off means i beheaded you?
This guy is not a garden variety loon. He's a loon who is obviously influenced by far right wing rhetoric. That's who talks about this gold standard stuff. Doesn't Glenn Beck advocate buying up gold and even advertise gold dealers?
Not as clear-cut as the guy who shot up the Unitarian Church -- but you wingnutters denied he was of your ilk, too. Or tried to, which was difficult, considering his very specific suicide note.
Arizona is a hateful place.
And Say-rah's dancing daughter is moving there.
That's double funny, since she's moving away from her babydaddy to be with her boyfriend while collecting money to promote abstinence. These Palins are making a bundle off the nutter fringe.

The victims...

...I used the word "target"...

At least you nullified the idiotic comment made by your Anonymous2 comrade above that drew equivalence between a weak, shrill voice on DailyKos and Sarah Palin's advocacy to RELOAD while putting political opponents in her infamous "crosshairs." So thanks for that.

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., noted Sunday that the suspect in the Tucson rampage was connected to Internet postings that included Marxist and Nazi literature.
"That's not the profile of a typical tea party member, if that's the inference that's being made," he said on CNN.

I would beg to differ. That's exactly the profile of a typical Tea Party member. Face it, beyond uniting people in hatred against negroes, homosexuals and intelligent people who "think they're smarter than us just because they paid attention in school" the Republican party offers nothing to the American agenda.

I have been reading here and I can not understand it!

I have known personnally an individual who needed help to overcome a mental condition. This individual was not the violent type, thank God.

But, when speaking with this person when off the meds, no sane person could get from point A to the mentally off-balanced B through any sane thought process.

The directions that an unbalanced mind takes is not subject to evaluation by any sane standard. Period!

This is so tragic.........and may have been preventable if this person had the help he so needed.

Colo. man accused of threatening Sen. Bennet staff