This is starting to look like more than just a nut with an automatic weapon!
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While many of the details of the shooting are yet to be known, many people have already drawn a somewhat disturbing connection between the alleged gunmen and politician
Sarah Palin.
In March 2010,
Palin put up a map of America on her website. The map says in capital letters, "It's time to take a stand." It then has several 'targets', all marked with rifle crosshairs. One of the rifle targets is positioned at Tucson with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' name next to it. The map can be viewed
here.
After
Palin released her target list, many criticized her, claiming that she was
using violence to promote her message.
Sarah Palin denied this, however, several members of congress began receiving threats. Gabrielle Giffords was among these.
Some of the most serious
threats against Congresswomen Gabrielle Giffords included an incident where vandals shot the glass out of her office in Tucson, and when a man dropped a handgun while at a town hall meeting.
The threats weren't just physical though. Congresswomen Gabrielle Giffords also received many email threats, and even
death threats during her campaign, before eventually winning reelection in 2010.
If Palin's target list isn't disturbing enough,
Palin also released a
campaign message in June of 2010, saying "Get on Target for Victory in November. Help remove Gabrielle Giffords from office shoot a fully automatic M16 with Jesse Kelly"
In a recent
Twitter update,
Palin also told her supporters, "Don't Retreat, Instead - RELOAD!'"