Shooting of Gabrielle Giffords

Well, this is breaking news, and nothing is clear yet as to the motive behind it. But I thought it extrmely ironic that as I was sitting down to watch the movie for this week's discussion, my roommate told me to come in and watch the coverage in Tuscon, AZ, regarding the shooting of Congresswoman Gabbrielle Giffords. I did a little research, and I know this doesn't necessarily have to deal with the readings that we're doing this week, but she is a moderate in a district VERY close to the Mexican border and initial thoughts are that the shooter was a right-wing extremist. Just goes to say that these issues that we're talking about safely in our classroom in Evanston are the same issues that people are dying over in Arizona in broad daylight.