Given Arizona’s poisonous political atmosphere this shouldn’t surprise anyone: Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords shot in Tucson.
Apparently she was holding a “Corner Event,” a regularly-scheduled meeting in which she goes to local shopping centers to meet her constituents. She’s been taken to the University Medical Center in Tucson.
Update: Giffords was shot in the head but survived surgery and is in critical condition. Six others have died, including a Federal Judge.
There are some details and some speculation about the shooter and his motives at the link in my update.