According to press reports on Saturday, Ms. Giffords was attending a political event in the parking lot of a mall in Tucson Arizona when a young man opened fire on the crowd, killing six people (including a federal judge, John Roll) and wounding fourteen others. Ms. Giffords was among the wounded after being shot in the head at close range. Despite suffering severe brain damage and remain in critical condition at a hospital in Tucson, Rep. of 40 years old, survives and it seems likely that at least a partial recovery.The suspect in this shooting has been identified as a 22 year old by the name of Jared Lee Loughna. The U.S. government He has been charged with two counts of first degree murder, one count of attempted murder of a congressman and two counts of attempted murder. FBI investigators have excavated several pieces of evidence pointing to guilt Loughna. This is an envelope at home with the handwritten phrase "I planned ahead" and "My Murder" along with "Giffords" and what appears to be the signature of Loughna. Another is a "walking Internet manifesto" written under the name of Loughna. This is a piece of incoherent nonsense neo-Nazi extremists in which the author repeatedly praised Adolf Hitler, accuses our government mind control and requires a new U.S. currency without the motto "In God We Trust." The picture that emerges is of a mentally disturbed young radicals who acted alone in the attempted assassination of Representative Giffords, prompted by a national climate of political frustration with the Democrats.
The official version sounds quite plausible on the surface, like the official version of the assassination of JFK. In that case, the suspect was Lee Harvey Oswald, a former 24-year-old U.S. Navy who had briefly defected to the Soviet Union. Oswald was arrested shortly after the shooting of President Kennedy in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, and charged with murdering the president the next day, but he strongly denied this accusation. In 1964, when the Warren Commission created by President Lyndon Johnson to investigate the murder of his predecessor, released its official report on the matter, the conclusion was that in all probability, Oswald acted alone.
