Gabrielle Giffords shooting and the sad reaction.
America witnessed another tragedy over the weekend when a member of the U.S. Congress and others around her were shot while she was attending a meeting of her constituents. Reports suggest that although Congresswoman Giffords may survive, six were dead and many others injured. In a sick and ironic twist, the weekend has been filled with highly charged and partisan rhetoric over the cause of the shooting and accusations have been leveled at everyone including: talk radio, TV pundits, Sarah Palin and the Tea Party. The people doing the accusing need to recognize that their premature and sometimes baseless accusations consist of the same vitriolic speech that they themselves are bemoaning. The suspect is Jared Lee Loughner and information coming out suggests that this 22 year old youth was incredibly deranged and mentally unstable. However because Gabrielle Giffords is a Democrat, some have simply assumed that this was a partisan attack. Yet Loughner's writings and video manife