It’s the one-month anniversary of the shooting rampage that shattered so many lives in our community. The Arizona Republic is running a series that examines how the day unfolded:
It begins with a phone call.
Hi, this is Gabby Giffords . . .
Supporters will gather for a quick photo. A few worried voters have tough questions to ask.
Come to Safeway tomorrow . . .
A friend plans to drop by to offer a thank-you. A photographer will pack his cameras.
Tell me how we can make government work . . .
Friday turns into Saturday.
In the darkness, at the north edge of Tucson, a young man checks into the Motel 6 by the interstate.
A set of lives are on a collision course, hurtling toward morning.
Read the whole thing here.
This article appears in Feb 3-9, 2011.
enough with the “shooting1” It was “the tragedy.” It was a senseless event, it was “the act of an insane man.” Few people if any remember OR CARE that Ghandi was shot in a garden. What they DO care about was the political assassination was a senseless loss of a great man, a great mind, taken from us all a stupid, ruthless idiot who cared nothing of the greater good.
Just like Jared. I don’t think HE could think of anything larger than his own limited stupid reasoning. So he used a pistol…so what? He could have used a bomb, a nail gun, a bayonette, or a water pistol, the means are not the argument, they fact that he was clearly out of his mind, and received no preventative mental help certainly is the point.
No sheriff’s deputies were on hand to guard Gabby or the crowd, or a FEDERAL JUDGE, for God’s sake…a Federal Judge!! What were WE thinking??
Stop this idiocy about guns. This is the 21st century, we have rights for protection. Jared DID slip through the cracks and nobody caught it. Two sheriff’s deputies could have helped. Better screening of mental defectives at the time of purchase could have helped. Armed citizens in that crowd could have helped. How many links were broken that didn’t work? Stop beating a dead horse, already. Enough, get to the problem.
The radar station at Diamond Head worked the morning of December 7th, 1941, but nobody listened to them. That would have helped at Pearl. We have a habit as a nation of not paying attention