Arizona shootings, per CNN.

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By the CNN Wire Staff
January 8, 2011 9:42 p.m. EST

(CNN) -- A federal judge was killed and a congresswoman gravely wounded Saturday in a shooting outside of a Tucson, Arizona, grocery store, according to police and government officials.

In all, six people died and 12 were wounded in the shooting, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona, according to Rick Kastigar, bureau chief for the Pima County Sheriff's Department.

Chief Judge John Roll of the U.S. District Court for Arizona was among the dead.

Gabe Zimmerman, the director of community outreach in the congresswoman's Tuscon office, died in the attack, Giffords' press secretary C.J. Karamargin said, as did a 9-year-old girl, according to authorities.

The girl is one of four victims whose identity has not yet been released.

An Arizona law enforcement source and a federal law enforcement source identified the suspect as Jared Lee Loughner. Other law enforcement sources put his age at 22. U.S. Capitol Police said the suspect was in custody.

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Law enforcement sources identified Jared Lee Loughner, pictured here in 2005, as the suspect.

Police recovered a 9mm Glock Model 19 handgun, according to senior law enforcement sources. The weapon had a 30-round magazine, a federal law enforcement source briefed on the investigation said.

An Arizona law enforcement source told CNN that Loughner is not talking to investigators and has invoked his right against self-incrimination.

Dr. Peter Rhee of University Medical Center in Tucson, said Giffords, 40, had undergone surgery for a single gunshot to the head that passed through her brain. Giffords was among five patients listed in critical condition, Rhee said.

At least two victims with gunshot wounds were transported to another hospital, Northwest Medical Center, according to spokesman Richard Parker.

Kastigar declined to comment on a possible motive for the attack. Police have set a news conference to discuss developments in the case for 6 p.m. (8 p.m. ET).

The attack occurred after 10 a.m. (noon ET) outside a Safeway grocery store where Giffords was holding a previously scheduled constituent meeting.

Giffords staffer Mark Kimble told CNN affiliate KGUN that the congresswoman did not have any security with her Saturday morning, which was not unusual for her.

"She wants to be as accessible to the people who elected her as possible," Kimble said.

Karamargin said he was not aware of any call for Giffords to heighten her security measures because of recent threats.

Tucson police Chief Roberto Villasenor said his department had secured the homes and offices of some unnamed federal officials as a "precautionary measure."

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Posted: Saturday, January 8, 2011 8:03 pm

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As Democrats go, Gabrielle Giffords is pretty moderate. She is a big supporter of 2nd Amendment Rights, and I believe she is also pro life.

Marc wrote on Jan 9^th, 2011 at 5:53pm:

Exactly!

But on the other hand - they're trying to get Tim McVey's lawyer to defend him -- maybe he'll get the "flu" shot and we'll be rid of him... (a federal judge might be the loophole to convict him).

But the 9 year old is the one that breaks my heart more than the others. Born on 9-11 and now this... My heart goes out to her parents Big Time.

Things like this just make me sick...

OMG, I saw a pic the news put up of him this evening and he looks certifiably psychotic!

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Whether this was motivated by political viewpoints or just some psycho fixated on this congresswoman one thing is for certain...political polarization is at an all-time high.

It's rootin' tootin' shootin' yosemite Sarah's crosshairs on this woman's district (do I not like her?  you betcha!), or Nancy Pelosi's stand on immigration protection (of the illegal variety), national spending, and many other issues I disagree with...whether your right or left, blue or red, republican or democrat, politics today, and all the mudslinging ads of the past election, is not what our forefathers had in mind.

You make a good point...maybe it just seems that way to me because my first memory doesn't start until the mid-sixties and politics didn't enter my world until the mid-90's....and that I have to work around this bull$hit everyday. 

Point well taken though.

Thanks, Grinner.  I hadn't heard that.  It would have saved the rest of us a lot of grief if he had just taken the perp our, but then he would have had to live with himself.  He made the right call.

Jerry

"sigh"...my point exactly..the finger pointing, rhetoric, political bipartisanship...doesn't matter if you're republican or democrat the mud flies both ways.  Unfortunately it doesn't look like it will end anytime soon.  Worth repeating:  I don't think this is what our forefathers had in mind.

I wise woman here (named Linda  ) posted many months ago something I will never forget:  "I will never put forth another opinion on religion or politics..I don't have the skin for it"...me too   

You do what you want Brew, my last post was not disagreeing with you.  I was merely pointing out that the mud flies both ways.  BOTH sides are guilty of this.  I'm pointing out that no matter what side of the political aisle you or anyone else chooses to sit on, anyone who engages in this type of behavior IS counterproductive (whether it's the President, any political figure, the news media, your average Joe, or some psycho).  The intent of my original post was as a citizen I'm fed up with the in-fighting, mudslinging, and lack of progress to get this country back on it's feet over what appears to be nothing more than a freakin power struggle!!  Again BOTH sides are guilty of this.  That was my intent, nothing more nothing less.    And nowhere did I say you or anyone should else to keep your opinion to yourself...as for myself...I'm out 

Per current news reports, the beloved so called Reverend Phelps and his band of Westboro Baptist Church members are planning on protesting at all of the funerals in Tucson, including that of the beautiful 9 year old girl.

What absolute disgusting filth these people are!

Sandy

I just read that the lawmakers in AZ are trying to do something to prevent the Kansas church group that protests at military funerals from comming and protesting there.  I guess they intend to do so.  That is what breaks my heart.  What did the 9 year old girl do and her family to desearve protesting.  Sick.  Just plain sick.

I couldn't agree with you more Jerry.

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