Another gun nut attacks

I refuse to apologize for the term for surely this was, in fact, a true "gun nut":


Arizona Rep. Giffords shot, at least 5 killed

By TERRY TANG, AMANDA LEE MYERS and DAVID ESPO, Associated Press3 mins ago

TUSCON, Ariz. --  Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot in the head Saturday when an assailant opened fire outside a grocery store during a meeting with constituents, killing at least five people and wounding several others in a rampage that rattled the nation.

Newly elected House Speaker John Boehner said it best when he was quoted, saying "Acts and threats of violence against public officials have no place in our society. 
It seems Former Part-time Governor--and full-time "quitter" Sarah Palin seems to sharea some culpability for inciting followers, too:

In August 2009, an attendee at a Giffords town-hall meeting dropped a handgun, leading Giffords's staff to call the police. "We have never felt the need before to notify law enforcement when we hold these events," her spokesman said at the time.

After Giffords voted in favor of the health-care overhaul in March, she said that vandals had broken the glass door of her Tucson office. "The rhetoric is incredibly heated, not just the calls but the emails, the slurs," she told MSNBC at the time. "Things have really gotten spun up."

She added: "We do have these polarized parts of our parties that really get excited, and that's where ... all of us have to come together and say, 'OK, there's a fine line here.' "

She told MSNBC's Chuck Todd that she was not afraid, however.

That same month, Sarah Palin's political action committee posted a map of the US, showing the locations of the 20 Democratic members of Congress, including Giffords, it was targeting for defeat. Each location was marked by an image of a gun crosshairs.

Fewer guns in the world only makes sense, as does less talk or images of violence and the possible use of violence as an option in our society, to our problems and issues.
Links:  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110108/ap_on_re_us/us_congresswoman_shothttp://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110108/ts_yblog_thelookout/giffords-had-been-target-of-violent-threats;_ylt=AjOkbDqgX65.tc07YcFi3SpH2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTU0bzVlajg0BGFzc2V0Ay9zL3libG9nX3RoZWxvb2tvdXQvMjAxMTAxMDgvdHNfeWJsb2dfdGhlbG9va291dC9naWZmb3Jkcy1oYWQtYmVlbi10YXJnZXQtb2YtdmlvbGVudC10aHJlYXRzBGNjb2RlA21wX2VjXzhfMTAEY3BvcwMyBHBvcwMyBHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcmllcwRzbGsDZ2lmZm9yZHNoYWRi