In addition to protesting the funeral of the 9-year-old girl murdered during Saturday’s shooting rampage in Tucson, the lunatics from the Westboro Baptist Church tell New Times they plan to protest the funeral of Federal Judge John Roll and picket the very corner at which the massacre took place.Shirley Phelps-Roper,…
What type of legal defense will Jared Loughner’s legal team mount? How do you defend a suspect who carries out a violent crime as publicly as the one Loughner allegedly carried out in Tucson?Sometimes getting a life sentence in a capital murder case is the best an attorney can do.These are…
Arizona’s gun laws are on national display following Saturday’s shooting, but whether they’re “weak” or “strong” depends on whom you ask. According to an article today in the Los Angeles Times, “Arizona has some of the weakest gun-control laws in the nation.” (Emphasis ours.) Put that way, it’s certainly true…
National Public Radio made the worst mistake imaginable in its coverage of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting on Saturday. In the mad stampede to report the latest developments from the tragedy, NPR was first to break word that the congresswoman had died from her injuries about an hour after the shooting. Crediting sources from…
Events across the nation were postponed in the wake of the Tucson shooting massacre that claimed the lives of six people and injured 14 others others, including Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. The nation paused as it mourned the senseless killings, recognizing it certainly wasn’t the time for politics as usual. Even…
The Saturday shooting rampage in Tucson that felled Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others, six of whom died, wasn’t the first such mass-killing spree in Arizona.Listed below are other Arizona mass shootings, dating back to a 1966 massacre inside a Mesa beauty school…
Their comments relate that the 22-year-old was a “weirdo” and “outcast,” and they paint a picture of what high school life was like for him. Tyler Zuern, who claims he knew Loughner while they both attended Mountain View High School in Tucson, left comments on his Facebook wall on Saturday…
According to the National Rifle Association’s list of grades and endorsements for Arizona’s Congressional delegation, Gabrielle Giffords earned a ‘C’ for her stance on gun rights. The list, reserved for NRA members only, was obtained today by New Times from an NRA representative. For each election, the NRA’s Political Victory Fund…
Click on the icons above to reveal more infomation about Loughner’s home, schools and key locations in the case. And click here to view the city and places in a larger map. Twenty-two-year-old Jared Loughner grew up in Tucson. He went (and dropped out of) high school there, and attended…
Large-capacity magazines for firearms are becoming a focus for gun-control advocates following Saturday’s shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others. The magazine — also known as the “clip” — of a firearm is a spring-action stick of ammo that allows multiple rounds to be fired quickly from semi-automatic guns. (With…
Wikimedia Commons Gabrielle Giffords, following her 2010 election victory. In the aftermath of the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday, many people are wondering about her chances of recovery. They’re the best they can be, given advances in brain surgery, according to a neurosurgeon from Barrow Neurological Institute.Giffords was…
Above is the first look at Jared Loughner after he was taken into custody for allegedly shooting 20 people in Tucson on Saturday, killing six. The photo was taken by the Pima County Sheriff’s Office’s forensic unit. It’s not his booking photo, PCSO officials say.Loughner made his initial appearance in…
Amy Joanne Loughner, mother of Tucson shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner, works for Pima County as a manager at Agua Caliente Park. A lot of people ask that we pray for Amy and her husband, Randy, Jared’s father. That’s about all we can tell you about Amy and her place in…
for its divisive politics and extreme rhetoric, it’s no wonder that the eyes of the nation are on us.It is even less surprising that Arizona politicos started jumping into the fray — issuing obvious statements or overstating their relationships with U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords or using the opportunity to shine as…
“What kind of music did he listen to?” It’s a question as old as loonies have gone on shooting sprees. Jared Loughner, the 22-year-old Tucson man who shot 20 people, including a federal judge and U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, was a band geek, as you can see in photos of…
Arizona’s mental health laws are among the best in the country and might have been used to get Jared Loughner treatment if applied properly, says Charles “Chick” Arnold, the state’s leading expert in mental health law. “While our system sucks, our statutes are the best in the country,” says Arnold…
As news media across the nation turned to the Web to report updates about Saturday’s tragic shooting, Tucson residents went online to vent their personal perspectives.What follows is a list of links to Tucsonans’ political frustrations, personal mourning, and collective grief expressed through the blogosphere.A Tucson writer for the Arizona Jewish Post…
embers of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, announced today that they plan to protest the funeral of a 9-year-old girl murdered during Saturday’s shooting rampage in Tucson.(UPDATE: Westboro Baptist Church agrees to not protest funeral in exchange for radio air time)In a press release, the group –…
While details are still trickling in as to the exact extent mental illness — and a lack of reporting/intervention — may have played a role in preventing the tragedy in Tucson, one local mental health professional tells New Times that Tucson school administrators regularly turn away help from a program designed to…
Four people who restrained murder suspect Jared Loughner during Saturday’s shooting rampage in Tucson may have prevented him from killing not only additional innocent bystanders who assembled to meet Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords that morning, but himself. Based on Loughner’s often-incoherent ramblings on social media Web sites, it seems the four…
It’s never too soon for a domain-name buy, apparently. With Jared Loughner’s Glock still cooling, someone bought the URL www.jaredloughner.com on Saturday and began uploading content. A computer search for the buyer reveals only a GoDaddy proxy server name. But at least the person isn’t paying homage to Loughner and…
The attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, the incidental execution of Arizona’s Chief federal judge, the collateral killing of five bystanders, including a child, and the deranged wounding of 13 politically curious civilians is not the result of the First Amendment’s perversion by talk radio, Sarah Palin or the recent emergence of…
