It has been months since the tragic shooting in Arizona where Congresswoman Gabby Giffords was shot in the face by an deranged gunman, while attending a community meet-and-greet in her district.
I can vividly remember that day. What I remember best is how I felt when learning of the victims that had lost their lives. News stations across the country covered a very sad and gloomy picture of how things can get violent when hate and political games go too far.
In yet another example of bizarre legislative moves in Arizona, Gov. Jan Brewer signed a bill into law yesterday to ban abortions performed on the basis of the race or gender of the fetus.
The Associated Press reports:
“The law makes it a felony to perform or provide financing for an abortion sought because of the race or sex of the fetus or a parent’s race… Illinois, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania already have laws that ban abortion for the purpose of gender selection.”
In the wake of the recent shooting of Congresswoman Giffords, we decided to put together a time-line of some of our nation’s most well known political related shootings. Of course, this is nothing to be proud of, but it does highlight how truly violent American politics can get. Check out the 1960s…can you imagine what our parents and grandparents were thinking? It must have a really scary time to be living.
January 30, 1835: Andrew Jackson is attempted assassinated by Richard Lawrence.
April 14. 1865: Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John W. Booth.
July 2, 1881: James Garfield is assassinated by Charles Julius Guiteau.
September 6, 1901: William McKinley is assassinated by Leon Frank Czolgosz.
October 13, 1912: Theodore Roosevelt attempted assassination committed by John F. Schrank.
September 8, 1935: Huey Long is assassinated by Carl Weiss.
November 1, 1950: Harry S. Truman attempted assassination committed by Richard Paul Pavlick.
June 12, 1963: Medger Evers is assassinated by a Ku Klux Klan Member.
November 22, 1963: John F. Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.
February 21, 1965: Malcolm X is assassinated by three members of the Nation of Islam; Talmadge Hayer, Norman Butler and Thomas Johnson.
April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr is assassinated by James Earl Ray.
June 5, 1968: Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated by a Palestinian Sirham Sirham.
December 4, 1969: Fred Hampton is assassinated by a Police Officer.
November 27, 1978: Harvey Milk (First openly gay elected politician) is assassinated, by who remains unknown.
December 8, 1980: John Lennon is assassinated by Mark Davis Chapman.
February 7, 2001: George W. Bush attempted assassination committed by Robert Pickett.
January 8, 2011: Gabrielle Giffords attempted assassination committed by Jared Lee Loughner.
“Guns dont kill people, stupid muthaf***az w/guns kill people.” says Chris Tucker in ‘Money Talks’ and boy was he right. The nation is still awake after the massacre in Tucson. Below, is an excerpt from the Huffington Post’s Gun Control Timeline that describes some proactive initiatives that will take place in regard to doing away with the right to bear arms.
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