Politicizing an Active Shooter Event: Tucson, AZ

It is shameful, but a reality, that active shooter events and gun control efforts have seemed to always exist hand in hand; at least in recent years. Since the attack at Columbine High School in 1999, it’s relatively easy to track and document how various political entities have attempted to leverage the emotional response to such horrific events in favor of generating new gun laws, new restrictions on gun owners and other gun-related rules, etc. Few events generate the kind of explosion of new gun control law support as an active shooter event held at a political rally. When one of their own is attacked, Congress responds in an understandable fashion, since they are human and react emotionally.

That’s exactly what happened after the attack on Representative Gabrielle Giffords on the morning of January 8^th, 2011.  That day, Representative Giffords was holding a political rally (also referred to as a “constituent meeting”) in a parking lot in Casas Adobes, a suburb of Tucson, Arizona.

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The remainder of this article is part of the book "Active Killers and the Crimes They Perpetrated," available in print or ebook via Amazon.