POSITION PAPER ON GABRIELLE GIFFORD'S SHOOT OUT.

POSITION PAPER ON GABRIELLE GIFFORD'S SHOOT OUT

Gabrielle Gifford's Shoot Out

Introduction

The sheriff has described Loughna, arrested the same day of the attack after being stopped by a passerby, as an individual potentially affected by a "mental problem" that makes a person "particularly susceptible" to fervent statements from government elements, that public officials become a target of invective. "And that's the saddest part of what is happening in America very soon, we're going to run out of reasonable and decent people who are willing to take risks to serve the people," he said. (CNN, January 8, ...