Your uncle wasn’t the President of the United States, unpopular or not. Let me know when Giffords serves in the military and becomes president of the US.
Apparently it was a Democrat engineered assassination attempt on a Republican judge, but she got hit too.
They would say "She was expendable", just like in the John Ford film about Squadron 3.
Frankly, all I ask is that I don't get hurt so bad anybody feels the need to name something after me. My days of saving lives are probably long gone now so nothing heroic. But seriously, you just never see these Congress-critters out in public like that ~ probably because the risk of getting shot is just too high ~ but there you have it.