Sentence examples for shooting representative from inspiring English sources

Arizona has among the most liberal gun-carrying laws in the nation, but that didn't prevent Jared L. Loughner from shooting Representative Gabrielle Giffords and killing six other people in Tucson in January.

TUCSON — The chief investigator for the sheriff's department here has for the first time publicly described the brief and gory video clip from a store security camera that shows a gunman not only shooting Representative Gabrielle Giffords just above the eyebrow at a range of three feet, but then using his 9-millimeter pistol to gun down others near her at a similarly close range.

The recent carnage in which a gunman went on a spree, shooting Representative Gabrielle Giffords and killing six bystanders in Tucson, serves as a stark reminder that political assassinations are a reality that require constant vigilance.

Still, Jared Lee Loughner, who shot Representative Gabrielle Giffords and other Arizona residents last year, bought ammunition for a Glock gun at a Walmart the morning of the shooting.

Under this one, Jared Loughner, who shot Representative Gabrielle Giffords, a judge, a small child and four other innocent Arizonans, could have brought his loaded handgun to Times Square.

They called the mother of another teenager — they have nicknamed him "Jared Loughner," after the man who shot Representative Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson in 2011 — who was obsessed with weapons and killing, had access to firearms and had extensively researched school shootings.

When Jared Loughner shot Representative Gabrielle Giffords this year in Tuscon, Arizona — after Sarah Palin placed rifle sights over Giffords' constituency and Giffords herself predicted that "there are consequences to that" — the right went into overdrive to portray Loughner as a schizophrenic loner whose crazed universe owed nothing to those fanning hatred under the slogan of "Take America Back".

While there is no evidence that the Tucson gunman who shot Representative Giffords was acting on behalf of a particular party or political creed, it is no coincidence that he chose a political gathering as his target.

Before the shooting, representatives of four street gangs from around his church had agreed to ride the construction lift to his tent and surrender as many as 20 guns.

Some of the most memorable and praised speeches — by Mr. Obama after the shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, for example, or by President George W. Bush after the Sept. 11 attacks — were delivered in moments of pronounced national grief or anxiety, when the country longed for a voice of reassurance.

For instance, we saw these same political reactions after the shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz).