Arizona Congresswoman Shot in the Head at Public Event

[DarkFish]

Originally Posted by breadcatcher101

I find it bad taste to bring politics into this shooting.

Then why do you do exactly that in the rest of your post?

[Gerald]

TUCSON, Arizona – Rep. Gabrielle Giffords no longer needs a respirator after doctors replaced her breathing tube with a different one.

Hospital officials say that Giffords underwent surgery Saturday morning to have a tube inserted in her windpipe to protect her airways. She had been breathing on her own since she was shot in the head Jan. 8, but doctors had left the breathing tube in as a precaution.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/01/15...eathing-tube/#



Note: Update,record Published January 15, 2011

[tater]

http://www.npr.org/2011/01/14/132909...-service-study

The cynical part of me expects that since NPR did this story, they know something I don't. Being NPR, that something would be that the nut job's politics aren't "tea party." We'll see. (again, I personally think politics has squat to do with this crime, which is why even talking about "civility" was in fact a political attack.)

[Skybird]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?hpid=topnews

The door maybe opened a small bit. It would be good for America if people and parties and politicians realise that they need to reunite again, and tone down the aggressiveness and vitriol the past two years have seen. They all have to move back towards the centre again, becasue it is the middle where the shared and common ground is to be found - not at the extremist poles. america has more than ernough serious probvlems and challenges. It does not need to paralyse itself additionally - by putting up these poles against each other, resulting in a deadlock, and a split in the population that is widening.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by tater

http://www.npr.org/2011/01/14/132909...-service-study

The cynical part of me expects that since NPR did this story, they know something I don't. Being NPR, that something would be that the nut job's politics aren't "tea party." We'll see. (again, I personally think politics has squat to do with this crime, which is why even talking about "civility" was in fact a political attack.)

People don't live in a cultural vacuum. They are living in a cultural atmosphere that may be encouraging or containing to their already existing inherent motivation. Your living environment feeds back on you. If it is moderate, your drive to turn hot is slowed down. If it is hot, your kettle explodes even earlier.

[tater]

Hmmm, looks like the cynical part of my is of course right. After nearly a week of hearing about "civility" (the media-created "discussion" to paint the opposition as "hateful"), I start hearing on NPR the last few days stuff like the link I posted above (I listen to NPR every single morning). This morning, it was about people with dangerous (to themselves or others) mental illness, and how to spot it...

Why the change in narrative? Because the "civility" meme won't fly when it becomes more and more clear the guy is really just crazy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/us...gfYK5d56DmiDjg

He is a truther, hates Bush, the whole 9 yards. That in addition to his mental illness which has been abundantly clear since day one (and has been more clear every single day).

[Growler]

What bugs me about it is the fact that this nutjob is getting lots and lots of attention, both socially and politically, and by his actions - the actions of one clearly batshi- insane person - the freedoms of everyone else are being called into question.

One bugf- person's actions are being legitimized by the political reactionism that's arisen since the vent. And the most irritating part about it is the fact that, by and large, American people are nodding right along like idiot bobbleheads.

[tater]

Docs repaired a fracture in her eye socket successfully.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/17...ir-eye-socket/

Best wishes for continued progress for her.

[Growler]

Originally Posted by tater

Docs repaired a fracture in her eye socket successfully.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/17...ir-eye-socket/

Best wishes for continued progress for her.

Read that earlier - I'm taking it as a good sign, that they're concerning themselves with "collateral" issues now (ie: issues not directly threatening her life).

Thoughts with her and her husband, for sure. I can't imagine watching my wife go through what Ms. Giffords is going through.

[Gerald]

The husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords said he believed for about 20 minutes that his wife was dead after viewing a mistaken television news report that said the congresswoman had been fatally shot at a public event in Tucson, Arizona.

Giffords is recovering in a Tucson hospital from a gunshot wound to the head. The Jan. 8 attack outside a supermarket killed six and wounded 13.Astronaut Mark Kelly told ABC's Diane Sawyer in an interview that aired Tuesday night that he learned that Giffords had been shot on Jan. 8 when he received a phone call from her chief of staff.

He said he rushed aboard a friend's plane to fly to Arizona, and while aboard the plane saw the TV report.

"I just, you know, walked into the bathroom, and you know, broke down," he said. "To hear that she died is just, it's devastating for me."

Kelly said he later learned that she was alive when he called Giffords' mother, who was outside the operating room at the Tucson hospital where the congresswoman was being treated.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/01/18...ning-shooting/


Note: Update record, Published January 19, 2011

TUCSON - Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was able to stand on her own two feet today, with assistance, and UMC Dr. Peter Rhee confirms that "aggressive rehab" has already begun for the congresswoman recovering from a traumatic brain injury.

Earlier today, Giffords also sat in a chair and looked out at the Catalina Mountains from her hospital room, Dr. Rhee says.

http://www.kvoa.com/news/giffords-st...wn-feet-today/

[Gerald]

Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is to be moved on Friday to a rehabilitation centre, her family has said.

Ms Giffords, shot in the forehead in a mass shooting in Arizona last week, continues to recover in hospital.

Barring further medical complications, she will be moved to Memorial Hermann Rehabilitation Hospital in Houston, where her husband works for Nasa.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12233612

Note: Update record, 20 January 2011 Last updated at 01:45 GMT

[Gerald]

HOUSTON – The caravan carrying Rep. Gabrielle Giffords swept past cheering crowds Friday as she left a hospital in Tucson, Arizona, where she dazzled doctors with her recovery from being shot in the head two weeks ago, and was moved to Houston for rehabilitation.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/01/21...cility-friday/


Note: Update record, Published January 21, 2011

[Gerald]

TUCSON, Ariz. -- A man accused in the deadly Tucson shooting rampage that killed six people and wounded 13 others including Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords researched lethal injections, solitary confinement and political assassinations in the days before the attack, a newspaper reported Wednesday.A source close to the investigation into 22-year-old Jared Loughner told The Washington Post that a review of his computers turned up the Internet searches. Officials with the FBI and Justice Department contacted by The Associated Press declined to comment Wednesday on the Post's story or verify any part of it

Loughner's alleged actions could help prosecutors as they begin the process of pursuing charges that could lead to the federal death penalty.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/01/26...est=latestnews


Note:Update record, Published January 26, 2011

[Growler]

Forget the death penalty for this guy. Life, no parole, in GenPop.