Shooting in Tuson Arizona

On January 8, 2011 6 people were killed and 14 people were injured in Tuson,Arizona, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Six people died, including a nine year old girl. The shooter's name was Jared Loughner. The investigators are saying that he had some mental illnesses that pushed him to do this. In an interview on 60 minutes his two good friends said he believed in nothingness and thought the government was useless. On a previous occasion, he had asked Giffords question and she couldnt answer and brushed him off. His friends thought that was what made her the target.

After it happened, Obama made a speech talking about the lives lost and what America needs to do to turn these tragedies around. He talked a lot about the nine year old girl. I can't imagine what that must be like for her parents, she was nine and had her whole life ahead of her. Amazingly, even though she was shot in the head, Giffords seams, so far to be on the road to recovery. The bullet just missed her skull and went through the side of her head and out the other side. The head is an amazingly delicate place and that was a one in a million chance. Obama also talked about two men that jumped out to cover their wives. Their final act of heroism was a sacrifice.

Before this happened Sarah Palin had created a map of "targets" that were marked with cross hairs. These were the twenty democrats that had voted for the health care bill. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had been one of the twenty. There is talk that this could have been a reason for this attack. Even though I think that making that map was unbelievably wrong, I dont believe that was the reason for Jared's attack. He didn't seem to base his reasoning on that, in fact there didn't seem to be any reasoning beside the fact that he may have been mentally ill.

There was one difference that I noticed in this incident. In many shootings like these, other suspects  end up shooting themselves after. Maybe because they feel guilty or maybe because they don't want to face the consequences. What ever their reason, Jared did not shoot himself after the attack, in fact it took many people to tackle him down while he was reloading, to stop the shooting. What this says to me is that he does not regret what he did.