The World Reacts to Tragedy in Arizona

From Russia:

Arizona shooting: An outside viewpoint and the Palin gunshot site
09.01.2011

"Every time I turn on the television set and see that yet another massacre has been perpetrated by some gun-toting coward across the Pond I feel saddened because this is yet another tell-tale sign that our societies are no longer free. We are not, for instance, free to walk around a campus or go to a shopping mall for a meet-and-greet without fearing for our lives. Has the new Tea-Party climate of hatred gripping America made things worse?"

http://english.pravda.ru/world/americas/09-01-2011/116465-arizona_shooting-0/

From Canada:

"Soul searching' called for in wake of deaths"

"The blame for the rise in vitriol can be placed at many doors — the intensification of partisan loyalties, the rise of the aggressive, controversial talk-show host on radio and TV, the growing popularity of angry websites and blogs, an ailing economy, even a belief that the United States has lost prestige on the world stage.

Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/Soul+searching+called+wake+deaths/4084180/story.html#ixzz1AdiLrk2w


"Tuscon shooting: The dead"

http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/01/10/tuscon-shooting-the-dead/

From the UK

"Gabrielle Giffords shooting reignites row over rightwing rhetoric in US"

"Sarah Palin at centre of storm over political vitriol after spree leaves six dead and congresswoman in critical condition"

"The National Jewish Democratic Council – Giffords is the first Jewish woman elected to Congress from Arizona – saw the attack as emanating from the polarised political debate: "It is fair to say – in today's political climate, and given today's political rhetoric – that many have contributed to the building levels of vitriol in our political discourse that have surely contributed to the atmosphere in which this event transpired."

Giffords's father was blunter. Asked if she had any enemies, he said: "Yeah, the whole Tea Party."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/09/gabrielle-giffords-shooting-rightwing-rhetoric

From Australia:

"THE attempted assassination of a US Democrat politician has sparked fierce debate in the US about how highly inflammatory language could incite violence. "

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/web-rage-may-hit-sarah-palin-bid-for-2012/story-e6frg6so-1225985212618

From Israel:

"President Barack Obama called the shooting "an unspeakable tragedy" and said that such "a senseless and terrible act of violence has no place in a free society."

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/141607