Dr. Steven Rayle, a former emergency room doctor who now works in a hospice, said that he had witnessed the shootings. He said the congresswoman was standing behind a table outside the Safeway greeting passersby when the gunman approached her from behind, held a gun about a foot from her head and began firing.

. “He must have got off 20 rounds,” he said. Ms. Giffords slumped to the ground and staff members immediately rushed to her aid, Dr. Rayle said.

Dr. Rayle said he performed CPR on some of the victims. He said one of the victims was a young child and appeared to be in critical condition with a gunshot wound.

He said that one of the staffers tackled the gunman and that he and others helped detain the suspect. The doctor described the gunman as a white male in his mid-20s with short hair and “dressed in a shabby manner.”

An employee at a nearby store told CNN that he heard a steady stream of gun fire that appeared sustained and “random.” Shortly after, emergency vehicles filled the parking lot around the grocery story and cordoned off the area.

The shooting occurred at a Safeway supermarket in northwest Tucson as Ms. Giffords hosted an event, called “Congress on Your Corner, to allow members of the 8th Congressional District to meet her individually. She has held several events since first taking office in January 2007. At one such event in 2009, a protester was removed by police when his pistol fell on the supermarket floor.

Careful what you say Patriots ... beyond the parasitic cesspool of bottom feeding human waste (otherwise known as the America hating "progressive" liberals) that has invaded this site and these threads, there are A LOT of "others" watching.

Do not let the lowest forms of human existence elicit you to say something that could get a charge put on you ... they are using everything they have at this point of desperation. They will ki11 their own if they think they can create the illusion that "we" did it.

Stand fast, we will do away with them when the time is right ...

mark wrote:Man, people are crazier than I thought. This from a comment on the FoxNews.com story:

Careful what you say Patriots ... beyond the parasitic cesspool of bottom feeding human waste (otherwise known as the America hating "progressive" liberals) that has invaded this site and these threads, there are A LOT of "others" watching.

Do not let the lowest forms of human existence elicit you to say something that could get a charge put on you ... they are using everything they have at this point of desperation. They will ki11 their own if they think they can create the illusion that "we" did it.

Stand fast, we will do away with them when the time is right ...

Keep piling up the bodies of your own, Obama! pretty soon you can say, "I can see Kenya from my house!"

We'll see, but I'm guessing the gunman (gunmen?) were illegals who heard that Jan Brewer wants to reduce their (free) Medicaid bennies.

OBAMA SHOULD DECLARE THE WHOLE REPUBLICAN PARTY AS A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION AND SHIP ALL OF THEM TO GUANTANAMO !!!!

Dem's murdered a government official by supporting illegals.

Illegals =0
GOP = 1.

we know liberals are more likely to be violent in most cases. We see this everywhere in the world where liberals protest.

We're okay with your passing on as a loony left liberal drone.

THE LORD IS SIMPLY PUNISHING THESE EVIL GODLESS COMMUNISTS WHO MURDER MILLIONS OF BABIES AND THOSE WHO CANNOT CARE FOR THEMSELVES. THE LORD SMILES UPON ALL WHO SMITE SUCH EVIL DEMOCRATS.

According to a local news report, Giffords was shot in the head at point-blank range.

Rep. Gabriella Gifford is in critical condition and a young child has died after a shooting at a political meeting at an Arizona grocery store, a hospital spokesman said Saturday.

Gifford, who was hosting the event, is under anesthesia after undergoing surgery for a single gunshot wound to the head, said Dr. Peter Rhee, Trauma Director at the University Medical Center in Tucson.

"The Congresswoman is not deceased. She is in critical condition," Rhee said in a press conference. "I am very optimistic about recovery."

Meanwhile, authorities have recovered a handgun at the scene of the shooting spree, a senior federal law enforcement source said.

mark wrote:They identified the guy:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 02631.html

Jared Loughner, 22, white male.

mark wrote:More on the shooter:

His MySpace page (now taken down):
http://www.myspace.com/fallenasleep

Had a picture of him with a Glock on a document that some said looked like a copy of the Constitution.

A post from that page:
Dec 29 Jared Loughner
Every US Government offical agency is illegaly accepting payment without gold or silver. The swat team is a US government offical agency. Thus, The SWAT team is ilelgaly accepting payment without gold or silver.

I am betting this is his YouTube page:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Classitup10#p/u

As you might expect, he is a troubled individual:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Classitup10#p/u

mark wrote:More on the shooter:

His MySpace page (now taken down):
http://www.myspace.com/fallenasleep

Had a picture of him with a Glock on a document that some said looked like a copy of the Constitution.

A post from that page:
Dec 29 Jared Loughner
Every US Government offical agency is illegaly accepting payment without gold or silver. The swat team is a US government offical agency. Thus, The SWAT team is ilelgaly accepting payment without gold or silver.

I am betting this is his YouTube page:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Classitup10#p/u

As you might expect, he is a troubled individual:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Classitup10#p/u