![]() ![]() Just ask Arizona's large and embattled Latino population, which has had to fight off everything from attempts to do away with ethnic studies to a notorious immigration law that all but mandates racial profiling by local and state police. The shooting comes in a state that has been malfunctioning for years. A lot more people might have been killed if heroic bystanders had not tackled Loughner to the ground and wrestled the gun away. The alleged shooter, 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner, used a 9mm Glock holding a magazine with more than 30 rounds. District Court Judge John Roll, Gifford's Community Outreach Director Gabriel Zimmerman and 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green of Tucson. Gabrielle Giffords at an outdoor constituent meeting turned into a mass shooting that killed six people and wounded more than a dozen, including Giffords. What authorities believe started as the attempted assassination of U.S. The latest heartbreak comes from Saturday's horrific shooting rampage in Tucson. Arizona, find yourself another country to be part of." Or if you feel like saying, to paraphrase what folk singer Phil Ochs said about Mississippi in the 1960s: "Here's to the people you've torn out the heart of. Or if you think the Grand Canyon State has become, in recent years, more trouble than it's worth. Raise your hand if you have had it with the drama capital of America, which seems to spend more time on the front page than the other 49 states combined. I lived in Phoenix in the late 1990s while writing for The Arizona Republic. We have become the mecca for prejudice and bigotry."īingo. "And unfortunately, Arizona, I think, has become sort of the capital. "The bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous," he said. In the wake of the shooting of a congresswoman and 19 other people, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik told the news media Saturday that he blamed "the vitriolic rhetoric that we hear day in and day out from people in the radio business and some people in the TV business." San Diego, California (CNN) - Arizona is broken. is a nationally syndicated columnist, an NPR commentator, and a CNN.com contributor. ![]() ![]() Early efforts to blame the right wing for the shootings were misguided, he saysĮditor's note: Ruben Navarrette Jr.He says Arizona "has removed the stigma from extremism".Navarrette says state has recent history of extreme views on immigration, other issues.Sheriff Clarence Dupnik says Arizona has become a place where intolerance reigns. ![]()
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