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A twenty two year old white man in Tuscon, Arizona on Saturday shot and killed 6 people including a federal judge and a nine year old girl, and wounded 14 people. Among those injured was the target of the attack, Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords is critically injured after being shot in the head from 4 feet, and remains in a medically induced coma in the hospital. Giffords has also been listed on a US map of Democrats to target by Sarah Palin for their support of President Obama\u2019s healthcare reform bill. Palin has come under fire in connection with the shooting because the map uses images of crosshairs in gunsights to identify the Democrats. Palin has now taken down the map from her website, as well as deleted her famous tweet \u201cDon\u2019t Retreat, Reload.\u201d Jared Loughner, the alleged shooter, who is now in custody, has been linked to a right wing Anti-Semetic group called American Renaissance. Congresswoman Giffords is Jewish. Much of the media coverage of the massacre has focused on the apparent mental instability of Loughner and whether the vitriolic rhetoric against President Obama and the Democrats coming from the Tea Party, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, and other prominent right wing commentators inspired Loughner to attack. In the hours after the massacre, Pima County Sheriff Dupnik said \u201cWe have become a very angry country, part of it very ugly. And that even though we have free speech in this country, constantly 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, making the people angry at government . . . may benefit some party, but I think those people have to consider that they may have some responsibility when incidents like this occur and may occur in the future.\u201d President Obama just called for a moment of silence at 8 am PST in Washington DC to commemorate the tragedy.<\/p>\nGUESTS: Roberto Lovato, writer with New America Media and a frequent contributor to The Nation Magazine, Eric Boehlert, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America<\/em><\/p>\n
Read Roberto’s writings here: http:\/\/news.newamericamedia.org\/news\/search.html?author_search=roberto+lovato&submit=Search+NAM+DB<\/a><\/p>\n