A Massacre in Tuscon

Yesterday, 22-year-old Jared Loughner, opened fire on a public meeting in Tuscon, Arizona, shooting U. S. Representative Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords in the head, while shooting at least 18 others, killing six of the crowd. Killed in the massacre were Federal Judge John M. Roll, Gabe Zimmerman, Gabby’s Local Director of Community Outreach, 3 70 year olds, and pretty, little 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green, who had been attending the event with neighbors. She was born on September 11, 2001.

Who is this monster?

Loughner was a former military recruit who was obsessed with mind control.

On YouTube, he posted a weird video with a rambling anti-government message, that authorities are still analyzing.  The video has been pulled.  As far as anybody knows, at this point, Loughner still is not cooperating with investigators.

Prima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said the killer had been in trouble with the law before and had even tried to kill someone before.

According to Dupnik, there had been “difficulties” at Pima Community College where Loughner attended. One student said that Loughner would often act “wildly inappropriate” in a poetry class that they had together.

Classmate Don Coorough told ABC News, referring to a discussion about abortions:

One day he started making comments about terrorism and laughing about killing the baby. The rest of us were looking at him in shock… I thought this young man was troubled.

Another classmate, Lydian Ali, said:

A girl had written a poem about an abortion. It was very emotional and she was teary eyed and he said something about strapping a bomb to the fetus and making a baby bomber.

On his MySpace page, which has also been pulled from the internet, he told his friends:

Please don’t be mad at me…I can not rest.

The psychopath was thrown to the ground by two people in the small crowd that had formed around Gabby while she was speaking. When he was taken into custody, a 9mm Glock handgun with an extended clip was recovered.

Authorities are seeking a second man as a “person of interest” who might have been at the scene with the gunman. However, He is not a suspect in the shooting.

Former U.S. surgeon general Richard Carmona, a family friend of Giffords’s, informed reporters Saturday night that she could need further surgery.

According to Carmona:

This is a very devastating wound.

Gabby, a Blue Dog Democrat, barely won reelection to a third term in November. She was sworn into office Wednesday and was hosting her first “Congress on Your Corner” event of the new Congress.

Per Steven Rayle, a Tucson doctor at the event, Loughner shot Gabby once in the face.

According to Dr. Rayle, after she was shot, the crowd tried to escape but were trapped by a table and a concrete post. The killer then started firing into the crowd.

There was nowhere easy to run. People that were there were just sitting ducks. I don’t think he was even aiming. He was just firing at whatever.

This massacre marks the first attempt on the life of a sitting member of Congress since the 1978 murder of Rep. Leo Ryan (D-Calif.) who was investigating the Peoples Temple cult compound in Jonestown, Guyana. After his murder, psychotic leader Jim Jones made close to 1,000 cultists, including 280 children, commit suicide by drinking cyanide-laced grape Kool-aid.

As soon as word spread about the massacre, Liberals began to try to make political hay by blaming the tea party movement.

They began an internet war by linking to Gov. Sarah Palin’s telling supporters via Twitter, “Don’t Retreat, Instead – RELOAD,” and Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle’s advocating “second-amendment remedies” to some of the nation’s problems.

Prominent left-wing bloggers accused Palin, and the resurgence of Conservatism in America of encouraging extremism and being responsible for the massacre that killed 9-year-old Christina and the others.  Gov. Palin responded by calling for “peace” on her Facebook page.

For Liberals to so readily attempt to use an unspeakable tragedy  in order to further their personal and ideological ambitions is beyond classless.  There should be apologies posted all over the internet today from the Liberal so-called pundits posting from their Moms’ basements. 

However, I’m not going to hold my breath waiting for them.

May God send His Holy Spirit to comfort the families of those killed and wounded in this horrible moment in American history and hold them in the hollow of His hand.  Amen.

5 thoughts on “A Massacre in Tuscon

  1. Gohawgs's avatar Gohawgs

    Ed at HA has a slap down of CNN posted.
    Once again, the tolerant, liberal left has shown their true colors by spewing their hatred of anything not “progressive”. A 9 yr old girl was shot and killed and the MSM leftists cry Palin/TEA Party/whatever sticks to the wall in a blatant attempt to sensationalize and politicize this sordid event for whatever their side can gain from the tragedy in Tucson. While at the same time, leftist sites, the Wash Post, etc are removing all negative comments about the Congresswoman’s recent vote against Pelosi as Minority Leader…Maybe, just maybe, the MSM will stop flagellating themselves long enough to report on the funeral details for 3 70 yr olds, a 9 yr child, a Federal Judge and, a 30 yr old social worker turned Legislative aide…

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