November 5, 2009 1:34 p.m. CST Major Nadal Hasan entered his workplace, the Soldier Readiness Center, where personnel receive routine medical treatment immediately prior to and on return from deployment. According to eyewitnesses, he took a seat at an empty table, bowed his head for several seconds, and then stood up and opened fire. Initially, Hasan reportedly jumped onto a desk and shouted: "Allahu Akbar!" before firing at soldiers processing through cubicles in the center, and on a crowd gathered for a college graduation ceremony scheduled for 2 p.m. in a nearby theater. 24 hrs later President Obama, holds this press conference at the White House in which he cautions people from "jumping to conclusions" Fast Forward 428 Days 
January 8, 2011, shortly after 10 a.m. MST. A United States Representative from Arizona, Gabrielle Giffords, was holding a constituent meeting called "Congress on Your Corner" at a Safeway supermarket in Casas Adobes, a suburb of Tucson, Arizona. According to an eyewitness, Giffords had set up a table outside the store. About 20 to 30 people were gathered around her when Jared Lee Loughner arrived and shot Giffords in the head. Less than 8 hours later Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik remarks that he felt that "the level of vitriol in political discourse created an atmosphere where violence was likely. "It's not unusual for all public officials to get threats constantly, myself included" and "When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government. The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous. And unfortunately, Arizona, I think, has become the capital. We have become the mecca for prejudice and bigotry." To date no evidence has shown Jared Lee Loughner has ever followed or subscribed to Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh etc. In fact developing reports show that Loughner was upset that Congresswoman Giffords answered a question he posed at a previous event in Spanish and didn't take the question seriously. It begs the question, as best posed by Thornton City Councilmen Randy Drennen in a recent Facebook Post, "Why can't a demented mad man just be a nut without causing a political controversy? Isn't it possible that a lunatic's particular flavor of bat $h*t crazy isn't derived from a one political party or the other? Is it possible to be an unaffiliated wacko?"
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