I was surprised that there was no security at Gifford’s “Congress on Your Corner” event. The eye witness accounts have been painfully slow coming out.
The knee jerk animosity towards the Tea Party Movement is my big concern. Ms Giffords’s father Spencer, 75, wept when asked if his daughter had any enemies. ‘Yeah,’ he said. ‘The whole Tea Party’ – the Right wing of the Republican Party.’
I was at a Congressional debate prior to the last election. I had plenty of face time w/both candidates prior to the debate. No security. That’s the way it should be.