Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) in critical condition, 6 others killed in Arizona

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Oh my god, that's unbelievable.  Very scary.  Let's hope for the best.

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Wow

No matter who did this, what their views are, or what their reasoning was, this is inexcusable and horrible. May she rest in peace.

Yes, indeed.  This is outrageous and disturbing, not at all for politics.

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I've issued 44 infraction points so far in this thread.  Please keep it cool.

Overzealous much?

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The political persuasions of the gunman (or gunmen) are irrelevant. What is important here is the cult of violence that has come to exist.

Quite true

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Tea party nation founder Judson Philips urged tea party supporters to blame liberals for the attack on centrist Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, who was shot through the head and is now fighting for her life, as a means of defending the tea party movement's recent electoral gains.

Stay classy teabaggers.

Politics are an inherently soulless line of work, this really shouldn't be unexpected at this point (unfortunately).

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Hillary Clinton:

"We have extremists in my country. A wonderful, incredibly brave young woman Congress member, Congresswoman Giffords, was just shot by an extremist in our country," she said. "We have the same kinds of problems. So rather than standing off from each other, we should work to try to prevent the extremists anywhere from being able to commit violence. The extremists and their voices, the crazy voices that sometimes get on the TV, that's not who we are, that's not who you are, and what we have to do is get through that and make it clear that that doesn't represent either American or Arab ideas or opinions."

Wow, Kudos to Hillary for having the courage to say things as they are.

Wow, yeah.  I'm incredibly impressed with Hillary for the first time ever.

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I'll also repeat that I agree completely with Xahar and I also of course agree with Duke.