Large-capacity magazines for firearms are becoming a focus for gun-control advocates following Saturday’s shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others. The magazine — also known as the “clip” — of a firearm is a spring-action stick of ammo that allows multiple rounds to be fired quickly from semi-automatic guns. (With…
Wikimedia Commons Gabrielle Giffords, following her 2010 election victory. In the aftermath of the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday, many people are wondering about her chances of recovery. They’re the best they can be, given advances in brain surgery, according to a neurosurgeon from Barrow Neurological Institute.Giffords was…
Above is the first look at Jared Loughner after he was taken into custody for allegedly shooting 20 people in Tucson on Saturday, killing six. The photo was taken by the Pima County Sheriff’s Office’s forensic unit. It’s not his booking photo, PCSO officials say.Loughner made his initial appearance in…
Amy Joanne Loughner, mother of Tucson shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner, works for Pima County as a manager at Agua Caliente Park. A lot of people ask that we pray for Amy and her husband, Randy, Jared’s father. That’s about all we can tell you about Amy and her place in…
for its divisive politics and extreme rhetoric, it’s no wonder that the eyes of the nation are on us.It is even less surprising that Arizona politicos started jumping into the fray — issuing obvious statements or overstating their relationships with U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords or using the opportunity to shine as…
“What kind of music did he listen to?” It’s a question as old as loonies have gone on shooting sprees. Jared Loughner, the 22-year-old Tucson man who shot 20 people, including a federal judge and U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, was a band geek, as you can see in photos of…
Arizona’s mental health laws are among the best in the country and might have been used to get Jared Loughner treatment if applied properly, says Charles “Chick” Arnold, the state’s leading expert in mental health law. “While our system sucks, our statutes are the best in the country,” says Arnold…
As news media across the nation turned to the Web to report updates about Saturday’s tragic shooting, Tucson residents went online to vent their personal perspectives.What follows is a list of links to Tucsonans’ political frustrations, personal mourning, and collective grief expressed through the blogosphere.A Tucson writer for the Arizona Jewish Post…
embers of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, announced today that they plan to protest the funeral of a 9-year-old girl murdered during Saturday’s shooting rampage in Tucson.(UPDATE: Westboro Baptist Church agrees to not protest funeral in exchange for radio air time)In a press release, the group –…
While details are still trickling in as to the exact extent mental illness — and a lack of reporting/intervention — may have played a role in preventing the tragedy in Tucson, one local mental health professional tells New Times that Tucson school administrators regularly turn away help from a program designed to…
Four people who restrained murder suspect Jared Loughner during Saturday’s shooting rampage in Tucson may have prevented him from killing not only additional innocent bystanders who assembled to meet Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords that morning, but himself. Based on Loughner’s often-incoherent ramblings on social media Web sites, it seems the four…
It’s never too soon for a domain-name buy, apparently. With Jared Loughner’s Glock still cooling, someone bought the URL www.jaredloughner.com on Saturday and began uploading content. A computer search for the buyer reveals only a GoDaddy proxy server name. But at least the person isn’t paying homage to Loughner and…
The attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, the incidental execution of Arizona’s Chief federal judge, the collateral killing of five bystanders, including a child, and the deranged wounding of 13 politically curious civilians is not the result of the First Amendment’s perversion by talk radio, Sarah Palin or the recent emergence of…
I was standing at the border “fence” down in Palominas last spring chatting with John Ladd Jr., an articulate and outspoken cattle rancher with no love for the federal government, Barack Obama, or anything with the phrase “illegal immigrant” attached to it. I was reporting this story, “Badlands,” which took…
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Authorities investigating Saturday’s shooting rampage in Tucson found some bizarre notes in the home of Jared Loughner, the man accused of killing six people and injuring several others, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.According to multiple reports, investigators searched Loughner’s home and found a safe containing at least three strange notes.On one…
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The second “person of interest” sought in the rampage shooting that left six people dead and several — including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords — injured yesterday in Tucson has been located and cleared by federal authorities. And as promised by FBI Director Robert Mueller, in Arizona from Washington, a federal complaint has…
Doctors treating Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords following yesterday’s shooting rampage in Tucson that left six people dead and several injured say the congresswoman is responding to commands. Meanwhile, a second “person of interest” is sought by authorities investigating the tragedy.Of the many heroes who prevented shooting suspect Jared Loughner from committing…
Law enforcement officials investigating this morning’s shooting rampage in Tucson just wrapped up a press conference and say they have reason to believe there could be a second suspect in the shooting that left six dead and several — including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords — seriously injured.Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik…
Web site for the Arizona Daily Star is selling photos of the man believed to be responsible for shooting several people, including Congresswoman Gabriel Giffords and a federal judge, for $125 each.The newspaper isn’t trying to cash in on this morning’s tragedy — many newspapers sell photos taken in the community…
A classmate of the man accused of shooting Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords this morning describes him as “left wing” and a “pot head” in a series of posts on Twitter this afternoon.Caitie Parker did not immediately respond to our request for an interview, but her “tweets” in the hours after the…
